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Home cooked meals and calories

naturalbeautii
naturalbeautii Posts: 72 Member
edited December 2024 in Food and Nutrition
Ok I need help. How do you figure out calories for a home cooked meal? There wasn't any exact measurement so I am having a difficult time. I am cooking tuna casserole and the ingredients are mozzarella cheese, egg noodles, cream of mushroom soup, peas, and of course tuna. Can someone help and are there any alternatives?

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  • Running2Fit
    Running2Fit Posts: 702 Member
    I measure/weigh everything that goes into a recipe. It’s a little tedious but it’s really the only way to know.
  • Panini911
    Panini911 Posts: 2,325 Member
    use the recipie builder and input each ingredient.
    https://myfitnesspal.desk.com/customer/en/portal/articles/2678319-meal-creation-w-photos-faq
  • deannalfisher
    deannalfisher Posts: 5,600 Member
    Use the recipe builder - enter the ingredients and set your serving size to total weight (cooked) in Oz (or grams)
  • kshama2001
    kshama2001 Posts: 28,055 Member
    deannalfisher wrote: »
    Use the recipe builder - enter the ingredients and set your serving size to total weight (cooked) in Oz (or grams)

    To expand on this, the weight of my rice and beans (total weight - pot weight) was 1920 grams.

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    (0.00 slices of bacon b/c I left it out this time due to using a pound of hamburger instead. My OH complained about the lack of meat last time I made this.)

    I ate 250 grams, and so logged 250 grams as number of servings.
  • naturalbeautii
    naturalbeautii Posts: 72 Member
    Thank you everyone!
  • callsitlikeiseeit
    callsitlikeiseeit Posts: 8,626 Member
    as everyone has said, the recipe builder is your friend.

    almost all my dinners are created in it
  • tiffanyleilarsen
    tiffanyleilarsen Posts: 44 Member
    Running2Fit wrote: »
    I measure/weigh everything that goes into a recipe. It’s a little tedious but it’s really the only way to know.

    This

    Also I only measure it the first time to get an estimate.
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