Home-made calorie calculation?

Mufasa0331
Mufasa0331 Posts: 334 Member
edited September 19 in Food and Nutrition
So I am needing a little advice...or guidance.

I made some home made stiry fry tonight frozen cauliflower, a lil bit of broccoli, onions and beef with some kinkoman sauce or something like that.

How do I calculate the calories in a cup size serving? Do I just pick a random stiry fry out of the data base or is there an easier way or more accurate way to do it?
I got the caloric intake for the 1/2 cup of rice lol but the rest I have no clue...?

Help please! :smile:

gratzi!!

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  • Mufasa0331
    Mufasa0331 Posts: 334 Member
    So I am needing a little advice...or guidance.

    I made some home made stiry fry tonight frozen cauliflower, a lil bit of broccoli, onions and beef with some kinkoman sauce or something like that.

    How do I calculate the calories in a cup size serving? Do I just pick a random stiry fry out of the data base or is there an easier way or more accurate way to do it?
    I got the caloric intake for the 1/2 cup of rice lol but the rest I have no clue...?

    Help please! :smile:

    gratzi!!
  • BrandNewLaura
    BrandNewLaura Posts: 1,650 Member
    There is a recipe calculator on sparkpeople.com but I use this one:

    http://caloriecount.about.com/cc/recipe_analysis.php
  • Marla64
    Marla64 Posts: 23,120 Member
    I used the sparks one tonight for candied yams that I was making-- it was totally cool.

    http://recipes.sparkpeople.com/recipe-calculator.asp
  • amunet07
    amunet07 Posts: 1,245 Member
    Cool! There have been several good websites mentioned in these forums...

    I wish there was a links page or something with all of them that I can print out.

    Earlier someone mentioned a site that had a bunch of the restaurant's nutrition info.

    Thanks for these.
  • bunnyr
    bunnyr Posts: 275 Member
    Thanks for the info. I usually just guess off of someone else's meal and I know that is not accurate!
  • Gretel
    Gretel Posts: 9 Member
    I don't know if this is the easiest way or not but it uses this site only...

    I type all the ingredients in as individual items in dinner and push the button 'remember this meal'
    and give it a name e.g. beef stirfry.

    Then I look at how much of that whole meal I ate e.g. a quarter or a sixth.

    And then type in the name I gave it as a food item again under dinner -it should come up as the top one on your food list in the database. And put in 0.25 or 0.166 or whatever portion I had.

    Then I delete all the individual ingredients. Voila. Then if I make the same recipe again, I can use it again as well. I do the same with cakes and biscuits etc too.
  • sukey
    sukey Posts: 25
    I didn't know about the other sites, so I have been inputting the entire recipe in "dinner" before I enter anything else. Then I go to the full report and I add up all the cals, carbs, fats, etc. I figure out how many servings are in the entire recipe and then divide it out. Then I input the information for one serving and enter it as a new food with a name that I will know. Then I go back and remove the full recipe information from my dinner, and call up the recipe for 1 serving, or however much I had. It's a lot of work the first time, but if you follow the same recipe next time, it's already done.

    I think I will try the other site next time if I can remember it!
  • kimmerlyjo
    kimmerlyjo Posts: 134 Member
    this is the site i use... www.nutritiondata.com

    not only does it create a nutritional fact sheet for your personal recipe, it also has what is good and bad about your recipe, if it's good for weight loss or gain, nutrients balance and much more! it seems pretty easy to use too!
  • BrandNewLaura
    BrandNewLaura Posts: 1,650 Member
    Cool! There have been several good websites mentioned in these forums...

    I wish there was a links page or something with all of them that I can print out.

    Earlier someone mentioned a site that had a bunch of the restaurant's nutrition info.

    Thanks for these.

    I believe that one is dwlz.com
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