How many cals do you log for salads?

When I eat a salad....I log the quantity i am using of the individual items.....

I agree with weighing most things but honestly? Lettuce and spinach? I'm not going to bother to something weighing something that has 20 calories in a 2-cup serving, because if I accidentally take "too much" WHO CARES? I can tell 2 cups from 5 cups, and that's about when it would start making a difference.

Question - is there a site you can enter ingredients and then get a nutritional (or just calorie) count for the food based on volume, not portion. I can measure out one cup. I am not able to look at a big pot of food and see if my portion is 1/10 or whatever. I suppose I could figure out how many cups were in the large serving but I don't see that happening :P

MFP??

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Weigh each item and log it....

This is what I do

This is what I do too.

I agree, some of these people are so ridged they cannot think outside of the box. thank you for brining some other opinions to the discussion. there is more than one way to do almost anything.

Ive started making up salads for lunches etc.

Just with stuff like been sprouts, tomatoes, carrots, onion, lettuce etc

If I add cheese obviously Ill add them cals onto it.

Wont usually have dressing, as juicy tomatoes are enough

How many cals should I log? Its just a serving size. 150?

:laugh: all of them! :blushing:

I stopped logging a long time ago, but have recently started again just to see where I'm at.
I weigh everything out in grams, so it makes things pretty easy :drinker:

I seem to eat the exact same thing on every salad so I weigh the items the first time and then add them as a MEAL on MFP so I don't have to keep adding items individually.

yes, me too....I put a bowl on the digital scale, zero it, then add a handful of this, zero it again, a handful of that, etc.

I end up with a list that looks like 15g frozen peas, 45 g cucumber etc.

Then I just check off the items on my 'recent foods' list or 'most used' (I forget, but it's there) and change the amounts as needed.
Easy peasy :drinker:

Thanks! Will have to do it next time. Not used to making up my own sorts of things. Generally buy packaged

Youre welcome to look at my diary if you want. Without cheese & without dressing (and with 8 oz of pork tenderloin), runs about 350