Out to eat! NOT.

maktuners
maktuners Posts: 11 Member
edited November 19 in Food and Nutrition
Why are so many of the examples to choose from have to be a store bought item or from a restaurant? Everyone knows It is better homemade for calorie counting and usually fat and sugar content. :)
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  • Edwardshar
    Edwardshar Posts: 271 Member
    Because you can't always be home to cook?
  • Lasmartchika
    Lasmartchika Posts: 3,440 Member
    Because there's things I don't know how to cook myself?
  • Alyssa_Is_LosingIt
    Alyssa_Is_LosingIt Posts: 4,696 Member
    Because life generally involves eating out or eating convenience foods at some point.

    There are plenty of foods to suit everyone's needs in the database. You can build your own recipes and eat everything entirely from scratch if you want to. If you see that something is missing from the database, find it on the USDA website or http://nutritiondata.self.com/ and create it under "My Foods".
  • Hornsby
    Hornsby Posts: 10,322 Member
    How else would I know which burger is the best in town if I don't try them all?
  • raelynnsmama52512
    raelynnsmama52512 Posts: 1,184 Member
    Because sometimes I'm too lazy to cook and we want to go out to eat? Secondly, why does it matter?

    The sanctimony is strong with this one....
  • SLLeask
    SLLeask Posts: 489 Member
    maktuners wrote: »
    Why are so many of the examples to choose from have to be a store bought item or from a restaurant? Everyone knows It is better homemade for calorie counting and usually fat and sugar content. :)

    Because I may have eaten something I bought from a store or a restaurant...?!
  • Azexas
    Azexas Posts: 4,334 Member
    And sometimes you just want to go out to eat with your friends. I don't see the big deal.
    maktuners wrote: »
    Why are so many of the examples to choose from have to be a store bought item or from a restaurant? Everyone knows It is better homemade for calorie counting and usually fat and sugar content. :)

  • Serah87
    Serah87 Posts: 5,481 Member
    So you never go on vacations?? Cruises??.....etc.
  • Edwardshar
    Edwardshar Posts: 271 Member
    hhaha I love this thread!
  • raelynnsmama52512
    raelynnsmama52512 Posts: 1,184 Member
    Does anyone realize it's only Wednesday? Shouldn't this be a Friday thread? :wink:
  • betuel75
    betuel75 Posts: 776 Member
    Hornsby wrote: »
    How else would I know which burger is the best in town if I don't try them all?

    ^^ haha! agreed!
  • MakePeasNotWar
    MakePeasNotWar Posts: 1,329 Member
    Because people eat that stuff and they want to log it?

    The number of entries is irrelevant; it just relates to the variety. There are tonnes of burger joints and only one "home", so obviously restaurant burgers (for example) will outnumber homemade.

    You might also want to spend a bit of time here before you start judging other people's food choices. You'd be surprised how many MFP members have had triple digit weight losses while eating all that terrible fat and sugar.
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  • barbecuesauce
    barbecuesauce Posts: 1,771 Member
    maktuners wrote: »
    Why are so many of the examples to choose from have to be a store bought item or from a restaurant? Everyone knows It is better homemade for calorie counting and usually fat and sugar content. :)

    Wait, are you talking in the food database? Presumably, people who cook from scratch don't make their entries publicly available because they weren't raised in the jungle. Sorting through *Homemade entries makes me sad.
  • seska422
    seska422 Posts: 3,217 Member
    maktuners wrote: »
    Why are so many of the examples to choose from have to be a store bought item or from a restaurant? Everyone knows It is better homemade for calorie counting and usually fat and sugar content. :)
    I wouldn't calorie count if I were restricted to homemade.

    1. I don't like to cook.
    2. I wouldn't be able to stick to an eating plan that didn't include the foods that I like to eat.
    3. Even if I could manage to stick to a total shift like that, I would feel deprived and revert to my favorite foods after I got to my goal weight. I would then gain all the weight back plus some.

    I want to lose weight and keep it off. That means that I'm going to be eating a lot of pre-prepared food. MyFitnessPal would be useless to me if I couldn't track the foods that I actually eat.
  • barbecuesauce
    barbecuesauce Posts: 1,771 Member
    Also, if you're eating in a restaurant, the food will often have more calories than homemade. I don't use anywhere near that much butter or olive oil at home--but that's why eating out is such a pleasure, right?
  • Serah87
    Serah87 Posts: 5,481 Member
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  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    edited June 2015
    maktuners wrote: »
    Why are so many of the examples to choose from have to be a store bought item or from a restaurant? Everyone knows It is better homemade for calorie counting and usually fat and sugar content. :)

    what do you mean by so many of the examples to choose from...do you mean stuff in the data base? There's just as many whole food items in the data base as there are things from restaurants and packaged goods. People eat at restaurants...people eat pre-packaged foods..people eat whole foods and prepare meals from scratch...why shouldn't everyone be able to find what they need in the data base?

    also, if you're looking for "homemade" meals in the database, don't...use the recipe builder or enter your food items individually.
  • SuggaD
    SuggaD Posts: 1,369 Member
    because I love dining out
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  • Serah87
    Serah87 Posts: 5,481 Member
    UltimateRBF wrote: »
    Because I like going out to eat and have no intentions of stopping?
    Because sometimes I'm busy and don't have time to make a meal, or make a decision to get food while out and save a bit of my time in the morning?
    Because I can make decent burgers and tacos at home but they aren't the same?
    Because it's none of your business?

    Because we can. ;)
  • Annie_01
    Annie_01 Posts: 3,096 Member
    maktuners wrote: »
    Why are so many of the examples to choose from have to be a store bought item or from a restaurant? Everyone knows It is better homemade for calorie counting and usually fat and sugar content. :)

    STORE BOUGHT...that would include most things that people consume unless you grow it yourself. Vegetables, fruit, meats all come from the store.

    There are many restaurants that offer products that will fit in to most peoples eating plan. The only trouble that I have eating out is the sodium levels in most restaurant food. I don't eat out often so I don't let that deter me from dining out.

    We all want to get fit and healthy...not live in fear of restaurant food or prepackaged items.

    Some of that prepackaged food is pretty good on occasion!

  • barbecuesauce
    barbecuesauce Posts: 1,771 Member
    UltimateRBF wrote: »
    Because I like going out to eat and have no intentions of stopping?
    Because sometimes I'm busy and don't have time to make a meal, or make a decision to get food while out and save a bit of my time in the morning?
    Because I can make decent burgers and tacos at home but they aren't the same?
    Because it's none of your business?

    I've been craving fajitas. I make good fajitas, very low-calorie, but they ain't what I'm hankering for right now.

  • Annie_01
    Annie_01 Posts: 3,096 Member
    UltimateRBF wrote: »
    Because I like going out to eat and have no intentions of stopping?
    Because sometimes I'm busy and don't have time to make a meal, or make a decision to get food while out and save a bit of my time in the morning?
    Because I can make decent burgers and tacos at home but they aren't the same?
    Because it's none of your business?

    On the days that I do "huge" grocery shopping I always either eat out or buy some of that evil prepackaged stuff. It is a reward for being brave enough to battle the grocery store mob.

  • Jaxxie1181
    Jaxxie1181 Posts: 138 Member
    maktuners wrote: »
    Why are so many of the examples to choose from have to be a store bought item or from a restaurant? Everyone knows It is better homemade for calorie counting and usually fat and sugar content. :)

    I'm actually glad MFP has so many options for restaurant menu items in the database, because I like to dine out with the hubby about once a month. It allows me to plan ahead and shift around my calories throughout the rest of the day.
  • diannethegeek
    diannethegeek Posts: 14,776 Member
    Jaxxie1181 wrote: »
    maktuners wrote: »
    Why are so many of the examples to choose from have to be a store bought item or from a restaurant? Everyone knows It is better homemade for calorie counting and usually fat and sugar content. :)

    I'm actually glad MFP has so many options for restaurant menu items in the database, because I like to dine out with the hubby about once a month. It allows me to plan ahead and shift around my calories throughout the rest of the day.

    Being able to find more restaurant information here was the reason I switched from a different calorie counting site.

    But I'm not sure I get the OP's point. There are a ton of non-restaurant foods in the database. You may have to search for the individual components (which you should do anyway, since it's more accurate) and sometimes it takes a little trial and error to call up the entries you want (try adding raw, cooked, or usda to your search terms) but they are all there.

  • jennifer_417
    jennifer_417 Posts: 12,344 Member
    Are you criticizing the MFP population at large for eating outside their homes? Everyone knows that if you don't figure out how to include normal activities into your weight loss plan, you won't succeed.
  • Annie_01
    Annie_01 Posts: 3,096 Member
    I think some people think when they come to a calorie counting site that we will all be eating baked chicken and steamed broccoli.




    I hated steamed broccoli...or any vegetable just steamed. I will go for roasted in olive oil any day. Maybe throw on a little cheese to make it look good.
  • jennifer_417
    jennifer_417 Posts: 12,344 Member
    raelynnsmama52512 wrote: »
    Does anyone realize it's only Wednesday? Shouldn't this be a Friday thread? :wink:

    No, no, that's when the mean people thread this thread will inevitably generate will appear.
  • 12_oz_Curls
    12_oz_Curls Posts: 140 Member
    Annie_01 wrote: »
    I think some people think when they come to a calorie counting site that we will all be eating baked chicken and steamed broccoli..

    Wait! I don't have to eat steamed broccoli?!?!?!?

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