Tracking Calorie Intake help

skinnylatae
skinnylatae Posts: 1 Member
edited November 2024 in Food and Nutrition
How can I track my daily Calorie intake when I cook my meals from scratch? This is proving increasingly difficult.
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  • RuNaRoUnDaFiEld
    RuNaRoUnDaFiEld Posts: 5,864 Member
    You just add everything your cooking. Like 5ml oil. 86g onion. Keep listing until you have finished.

    The longer you log the quicker it becomes as the foods stay in your diary.
  • ZephieC
    ZephieC Posts: 162 Member
    I create my own recipes in the app. Just measure/weigh and input all of the ingredients you are using. I usually guesstimate how many servings and than adjust it afterward once I actually see the end result. It works really well since trying to cook separately for me and my husband was a huge pain. MFP will save your recipes so if you've taken the time to enter it once you can pop back in and reuse it again. It is also very easy to adjust if an ingredient changes.
  • CourtneyLomonaco
    CourtneyLomonaco Posts: 562 Member
    You can type in your ingredients in a recipe and log it that way. I have done that for some things and it seems to work well.
    Good luck.
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    Recipe builder
  • Ready2Rock206
    Ready2Rock206 Posts: 9,487 Member
    Use the recipe builder. It's a must use tool if you're doing your own cooking. Once you've used it a bit it takes no time at all to pop in a new recipe. I use it all the time.
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