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Pancakes
niamhdean97
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So I'm making pancakes for breakfast. Just normal flour, milk and eggs pancakes. I didn't weigh out the ingredients just because I never have before but now I don't know what to put them in under and how many calories. I make them the size of a proper frying pan and medium thickness x
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That's why you have to weigh each ingredient. Do that when you get yourself a scale.8
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Make a good faith estimation of how much of everything you used (and the proportion of the batch you ate) and weigh everything next time? Chalk it up to a lesson learned.
Nobody here can tell you how many calories are in your pancake based on "medium" and the size of your frying pan (frying pans, like human beings, come in a variety of wonderful shapes and sizes).5 -
Thank you smolmaus. I've just never had to weigh them before so I didn't think of it. Lesson learned anyway x2
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my pancake recipe with 2 eggs is about 600 cals, minus an oil or toppings.0
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TavistockToad wrote: »my pancake recipe with 2 eggs is about 600 cals, minus an oil or toppings.
Is that per pancake or how many does that make? I use two eggs too0 -
niamhdean97 wrote: »TavistockToad wrote: »my pancake recipe with 2 eggs is about 600 cals, minus an oil or toppings.
Is that per pancake or how many does that make? I use two eggs too
that's for all of the mixture made with 2 eggs, flour and milk. cant remember how many it makes, pancake day was a while ago, sorry!!!1 -
You might want to try protein pancakes, there are tons of recipes online with far less calories than 600 per piece0
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When I was a kid I hated syrup and still kind of do as an adult (blasphemous I know) My mom used to use a cheese grater and grated a bunch of apple in the batter when she made pancakes then add extra cinnamon to make apple cinnamon pancakes, they were so good! The apple also lessened the calories since she would use it to replace a couple other calorie dense ingredients, can't remember what they were though.1
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Normal...proper....medium....there is nothing in your description that provides a decent measure.
It’s the amount of fat/oil/butter you used (even brushed on the pan) that can be quite variable depending on how you made your pancake.
I suggest you make up a recipe with recipe builder making your best guess on quantities and divide by the number of servings.
My pancake batter is typically one egg, a cup flour, a cup milk, a tablespoon sugar and a tablespoon oil.1 -
TavistockToad wrote: »
Dang right! That's exactly what I put on my 'cakes. Extra crunchy natural pb and a ripe banana!
That is until I started keto.
But I make a mean almond/coconut flour pancake with home made maple syrup. I can't reveal how I make the syrup (erythritol, water, pure maple extract), because it's so good. And it's a no calorie syrup.0 -
niamhdean97 wrote: »So I'm making pancakes for breakfast. Just normal flour, milk and eggs pancakes. I didn't weigh out the ingredients just because I never have before but now I don't know what to put them in under and how many calories. I make them the size of a proper frying pan and medium thickness x
Sometimes you just have to do the best you can. If you measured the ingredients out then you can plug all of that into the recipe builder and get a decent estimate. If you eyeballed the ingredients then I'd still use the recipe builder and just use your best guess at how much of everything you used. It would likely be closer than using a generic entry in the database.0 -
Normal...proper....medium....there is nothing in your description that provides a decent measure.
It’s the amount of fat/oil/butter you used (even brushed on the pan) that can be quite variable depending on how you made your pancake.
I suggest you make up a recipe with recipe builder making your best guess on quantities and divide by the number of servings.
My pancake batter is typically one egg, a cup flour, a cup milk, a tablespoon sugar and a tablespoon oil.
I completely agree with this ^^.
But if you just want a number that you can at least feel is a good faith estimate without trying to guess how much you used of the various ingredients, measure the diameter of your frying pan. Divide by 2. Call that number X.
One of your pancakes has (175/9) times X times X calories, or 19.4 times X-squared. Based on the USDA's entry for a six-inch pancake made from scratch and a little basic geometry.0 -
niamhdean97 wrote: »So I'm making pancakes for breakfast. Just normal flour, milk and eggs pancakes. I didn't weigh out the ingredients just because I never have before but now I don't know what to put them in under and how many calories. I make them the size of a proper frying pan and medium thickness x
What I do is weigh out each ingredient, write it down. Make the pancakes....then use recipe builder and for "servings" just use the number of pancakes made and log in all the ingredients and the amounts you used.0 -
niamhdean97 wrote: »So I'm making pancakes for breakfast. Just normal flour, milk and eggs pancakes. I didn't weigh out the ingredients just because I never have before but now I don't know what to put them in under and how many calories. I make them the size of a proper frying pan and medium thickness x
What I do is weigh out each ingredient, write it down. Make the pancakes....then use recipe builder and for "servings" just use the number of pancakes made and log in all the ingredients and the amounts you used.
That is a good way to do that. You can also use My Recipe Box here on MFP to do that easily! Just go to the Food, Recipe Builder. It will save your results and you can easily add it to your Food Diary whenever you use the same recipe. So simple once you try it.1 -
GreenValli wrote: »niamhdean97 wrote: »So I'm making pancakes for breakfast. Just normal flour, milk and eggs pancakes. I didn't weigh out the ingredients just because I never have before but now I don't know what to put them in under and how many calories. I make them the size of a proper frying pan and medium thickness x
What I do is weigh out each ingredient, write it down. Make the pancakes....then use recipe builder and for "servings" just use the number of pancakes made and log in all the ingredients and the amounts you used.
That is a good way to do that. You can also use My Recipe Box here on MFP to do that easily! Just go to the Food, Recipe Builder. It will save your results and you can easily add it to your Food Diary whenever you use the same recipe. So simple once you try it.
That's what I do now. Took me a while to figure that one out (oops), but at least I was really, really accurate in my pancake logging for a few months. Now I'm just accurate.0
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