Counting calories in a green salad
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suzyspi11s
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Several times a week I am making a large green salad of Romain lettuce, red cabbage, snap peas, cucumber, broccoli, red pepper. Do I need to count all those individual items in a salad? And, if so, how do I do that?
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Weigh and log them all, or make a recipe with them all if you make it the same ingredients every time. You can edit the amounts in the recipe if need be.2
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Add the individual items to your diary once and choose the option to 'Save Meal.' Then the next time you have the salad, all you have to do is add that saved meal. You can tweak the amounts once you've added the saved meal to your diary if you want. (They'll show up as separate items just like you entered them the first time)3
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strongwouldbenice wrote: »Weigh and log them all, or make a recipe with them all if you make it the same ingredients every time. You can edit the amounts in the recipe if need be.
This is what I do, because I make salad often in summer! Makes the logging process much easier.
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Build you salad on your scale, tare out scale between each addition, measure in grams, use entries that use grams.2
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This salad you describe sounds like it has about 50 to 75 calories in it. No seeds, no nuts, no cheese, no dried fruit, no oil, no dressing? The snap peas, brocoli and pepper are your biggest calorie hits. What are you putting on this salad? Because your dressing, your oil, your croutons, your toppings, etc are going to be way more substantial the vegetables listed.1
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I have a recipe I created for my most common salad which is mixed greens, cucumber, and cherry tomato. I log dressing separate and any add ons like avocado, nuts, cranberries, etc.
I also have a recipe for my cucumber salad since i make that often too. That recipe includes the olive oil and lemon dressing.2 -
You can log it once and then save the meal. When you make the salad again you can just select the whole meal and adjust quantities. I do that with sandwiches too.0
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Yeah, save it as a MEAL not a RECIPE. With a saved meal you can edit each ingredient in the FOOD diary. With a recipe, it just posts the name of the recipe to the FOOD diary.
MEAL is the way to go. I have a "Small green salad" meal I use frequently.2
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