Low Calorie Calculation

EternallyAngela
EternallyAngela Posts: 10 Member
edited November 2024 in Food and Nutrition
Hey everyone! So, I'm a little confused. I'm hoping someone out there can give me a little insight.

I eat a lot of homemade vegetable soup. After just guessing and picking something similar from the choices on MFP, I decided to do the work to add an accurate version of mine...especially because the sodium on all the soups I could find seemed waaaay above what I felt mine had.

After all of the calculations, it seems a 2 cup serving of my soup is a mere 13 calories. My ingredients:
2lb bag California blend veggies
2 cups fresh tomato
1 cup marinara sauce
Various seasonings

Does this seem correct? I'm shocked at how little the calorie count is!

Thanks for any input!!

Edit: Sorry! I should mention I make this with about 5 quarts of water. I take my 2 cup servings from there.

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  • PokeyBug
    PokeyBug Posts: 482 Member
    I pasted your ingredients into MFP's recipe doohickey and estimated 10, 2 cup servings (based on the water content; 5 quarts = 20 cups = 10, 2 cup servings). I got 67 calories per serving. It's still crazy low in calories, though, so enjoy!
  • EternallyAngela
    EternallyAngela Posts: 10 Member
    Thank you!! Maybe my math is a little off ;)
  • jaga13
    jaga13 Posts: 1,149 Member
    When you enter all the ingredients, how many servings are you entering? Maybe too many?
  • jaga13
    jaga13 Posts: 1,149 Member
    jaga13 wrote: »
    When you enter all the ingredients, how many servings are you entering? Maybe too many?

    Edit : I mean how many servings are you entering for the whole recipe? For example, if you would expect to eat that soup 4 times , then you enter 4 servings and it will calculate the calories for 1 serving. But your job isn't done: you then weigh the whole thing in grams and divide that amount by 4 so you know exactly how much 1 serving is in a bowl.
  • EternallyAngela
    EternallyAngela Posts: 10 Member
    Well, I enter 12, 2 cup servings because my 6 quart crockpot equals 24 cups.
  • schibsted750
    schibsted750 Posts: 355 Member
    Sometimes the entries that have been created by other people are simply wrong. You should always verify their accuracy yourself, at least the first time you use them. One reason why I like to eat the same foods repeatedly is that once I've verified the entry for that food, I can keep logging with that entry without bothering about whether it's accurate.
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