Help with a calorie estimate please?

Having no idea who made the bread, what's in the sausage or in the meatballs, there's no way any estimate given here is going to have much chance of being reliably accurate, especially considering that even if we knew all the ingredients, inaccuracies in estimating your portion sizes could result in being off by 100s of calories.
We don't know how much pasta that is or how much those meatballs weighed even if we did know how they were made.
Your guess is as good as mine.

Is there a website or an App to calculate the calories in your food?

duskyjewel wrote: »

Carlos_421 wrote: »

Having no idea who made the bread, what's in the sausage or in the meatballs, there's no way any estimate given here is going to have much chance of being reliably accurate, especially considering that even if we knew all the ingredients, inaccuracies in estimating your portion sizes could result in being off by 100s of calories.
We don't know how much pasta that is or how much those meatballs weighed even if we did know how they were made.
Your guess is as good as mine.

I honestly thought the estimate given was really good. Sometimes close enough has to be good enough.

When I eat something at a work potluck, I estimate the best I can, but I have no idea what recipe they used. But I accept that it's never going to be 100% accurate because there is a certain level of insanity to which I refuse to descend.

I do that all the time too at potlucks, other people's homes, non-chain restaurants, etc. But then I'm seeing it in person (and lifting it up on a spoon or fork), so I have some way of estimating volume or weight. Most of the photos I see in threads like this put nothing in the frame that has a known standard size (ruler, deck of cards, coin or dollar bill) to use for a frame of reference. Plates, glasses, even utensils to some extent come in a wide range of sizes.

Also, is there some serious foreshortening going on in this photo? It doesn't look like it to me, but IMO, contrary to the first post, if that's a 120-cal slice of bread, that's less than a standard 2 oz. dry serving of pasta. If that's 4 oz. dry pasta, as the first post suggested, that's at least a 300 calorie slice of bread.