Stuffed Bell Pepper
Tajmommy12
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HI! I am really having a hard time to counting foods that I cook. Yesterday I prepared stuffed bell peppers......extra lean ground meat (95/5), shrimp, & crabmeat, inside a bell pepper. How would you count calories for one of these?? HELP! I really love these.
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Try adding the ingredients seperately. Put in the bell pepper, then the amount of ground beef, etc.0
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If you go into your food diary and go to recipes, add everything you put in and divide it by how many servings it calculates it all for you0
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invest in a food scale...add all your ingredients separately & count them up like that.0
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There is a recipe builder where you can imput the number of servings then each ingredient separately and it will automatically tell you how much is in a serving.0
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MFP Has a recipe maker. Input all your ingredience in the calculator, and how many servings it will make...and it will do the math for ya, per serving. IT's great!0
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I always whip it up in a recipe on here. Works well!0
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You could create your own food in the database (or apparently a recipe ^ ^) - enter the totals (carbs, protein, fats, etc.) for ALL of the ingredients you used is that dish and include the serving size and label it "Stuffed Bell Pepper - rtyoung" or something like that. You can make it available to just you or add it to the general database for other people to use. When you have the peppers, you can choose it from the database just like any other food, all you have to enter is how many servings you ate. Do the work once by entering it now and save yourself the hassle later.0
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I do not know but girl sounds like a recipe I need in my book. I am drooling ! lol0
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there is a great recipe site... she calculates EVERYTHING for you... including WW points and more... the recipes are awesome and I LOOOOOVED the turkey stuffed pepper recipe. I make a few changes but even my hubby requests these all the time!
www.skinnytaste.com... im addicted to these easy, healthy recipes! look at the "food porn" om the side of the screen... omg!0 -
Boo boo, they are all right - the recipe tool works wonders.
However, when I cook, MY issue is not measuring what I'm putting in. You know, you look at it and taste it and say, "Okay, that's enough sauce" or "It needs more salt", etc. You just eye it, take a bite, and keep it moving. I had to start measuring my ingredients. It takes time, but once you got your recipe right, it saves time in the longrun and you can accurately track your calories.
One time I made some chickpea salad (like pasta salad that you eat at cookouts and baby showers but I used chickpeas instead of pasta and I made my own Italian dressing). Normally I'll just look at it and go, "I need some more olive oil," but I couldn't do that. Every time I had to add more, I'd measure out about a teaspoon and say "That's not enough," "That's not enough," "Okay, that's enough" and jot it down every time I added some. Add up all those teaspoons and save it in the recipe!0 -
Thanks everyone! I actually put the ingredients in teh receipe builder and it calcualted 297 calories per 1/2 of bell pepper. So, not too bad for 1 meal.0
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