Anyone in UK on a daily limit of 1.5k cals?

When I find an interesting recipe with measurements or ingredients I am not familiar with (usually USA recipies) i do the following:
If measurements are given in cups I use the stated cup measurement ( I think I found a cheap set of measuring cups and spoons in a pound shop!) and then simply weigh the contents in grams.
If the recipe has ingredients I don't recognise by name, I Google it.
I'm not sure if that helps you with your dielema.

I'm in bristol

I just measure everything on grams but I too have a set of us measuring cups for when needed

I get loads of Pinterest and damndelicious is really good as well, really interesting and tasty meals, but a US site but you get used to it. DeliciouslyElla is good to, uk site, and you can easily add meat to all her dishes.

croftie4 wrote: »

I'm in bristol

I just measure everything on grams but I too have a set of us measuring cups for when needed

be wary of using measuring cups. grams is a MUCH much better way of being accurate.

Also, American measuring cups are slightly different to UK measuring cups. So a US cup is 137ml and a UK cup is 150ml. That doesn't matter so much when baking as the consistent use of the same measuring method is the more important thing, but that could well affect calories.

I wouldn't say I deliberately make my meals low calorie. There are some coking habits I have that are de facto low calorie like steaming my veg and never adding a pat of butter to them. I also always buy the leanest cut/mince of meat and trim any extra fat off. I do mostly cook from scratch which results in lower calorie and healthier versions of foods...e.g. Pizza. I prefer my salads naked with no dressing..just a taste preference as I like to taste the individual vegetables. I don't fry anything...I just have a nonstick steel pan. I tend to bake rather than roast. I do substitutions at times like applesauce instead of sugar when baking a cake or vegetable stock to flavour mash instead of butter. I do eat butter every day though! (Usually on an English muffin or toast) I don't buy low fat versions of stuff, like I eat full fat cheese, semi skimmed milk, full fat yogurt. I think what I have found it that while most people would have a single chicken breast at 150grams....I will cut off a third and eat 100g of chicken. So basically I cook from scratch so I know exactly what's in my dish, I always weigh and the weight control is really about eating a portion that is a little smaller than average. This makes sense to me because I am smaller than average (only 5ft 1inch tall). My husband is 6ft tall and he used to dish up equal servings for us...it would drive me nuts! Now we're using this app he better understands why I simply cannot eat as much as he does. He used to think I was being picky and making a subtle statement he was eating too much by my eating less. But nowadays we'll be constantly like "I have x calories left today" comparing them really opened his eyes into the fact that there is no one size fits all right amount of food to eat. It is very individual.