How do you figure out how many calories are in a home made meal?

Under the food tab, click on recipes, then click on Add a meal manually. Type an ingredient, click return to go to the next line, and another ingredient. When you finish adding all ingredients. Click on match ingredients and it will try to match or you can replace what it finds. Hope this helps.

Step one: Use the recipe builder to create a recipe (I like the old version of the recipe builder). Add in all your ingredients and the total amount you used. That will give you the calorie count for the whole thing and ask you how many servings there are.

Step two: Weigh the whole thing and decide how many servings there are. Pick a number that makes a serving equal to an even-to-use number such as 1 oz or 100 grams.

Step three: Measure out an amount for yourself and log it.

To illustrate:

Pot of chili is 1290 grams.

To make it easy, decide that 1 serving is 100 grams, so there are 12.9 servings. Select that number.

Then, measure out your portion. Say it's 224 grams. Log 2.24 servings.

Add up the calories, protein, carbs, fat, fiber, etc. Measure the finished product in cups or ounces if you have a scale. Measure out 1 serving using the same measurement and divide that number into the total. For example, my veggie chili usually comes to 8 cups each time I make it. The ingredients total about 1200 calories. So dividing 8 into 1200 yields 150 calories per cup. I usually eat 2 cups at a meal, so that is 300 calories for the meal. Depending on the type of beans I use I get between 9 and 13 grams of protein per cup. Do the same for all the rest of the things you are interested in.

In the alternative, if you are making something with a relatively small number of servings or discrete components you don't have to build a recipe. If I do a smaller stew I might calculate the total calories and then if I have 1/4 of it I would divide everything by 4 and simply log all the ingredients. Not perfect, but it works okay for me. More often than that, I log my home cooked meals by just logging components: my piece of meat, my portion of the potatoes (there I do the weigh the total before cooking and then divide based on the portion I take), my portion of the veggies, my measured out blueberries, whatever.