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kellysutherland0915
kellysutherland0915 Posts: 1 Member
in Food and Nutrition

How do u track your food if the restaurant or food isn't easy to get the nutrients info to track?

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  • Corina1143
    Corina1143 Posts: 4,950 Member

    I do the best I can and call it good!

    You can look up calories for a similar dish at a similar restaurant. You can try to figure out the ingredients, look them up individually, add them up.(I'm way too lazy for this one). Or if this is a very rare occurrence, you can just estimate it. I usually use the first idea.

  • tomcustombuilder
    tomcustombuilder Posts: 2,497 Member

    when eating out just enjoy it. Go home think of the meal amd give your best guesstimate.

  • Fitgoal90
    Fitgoal90 Posts: 23 Member

    I get as close as possible or put in things individually.

    After that, I usually go for a little walk so any extra few calories missed will be burned off anyway.

  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 19,104 Member

    I find something similar from somewhere that does have info, or I just pick an entry out of the database, usually erring on the higher side. I figure one meal didn't get me where I was and won't put me back

  • SafariGalNYC
    SafariGalNYC Posts: 2,241 Member

    none of the restaurants I go to have nutrition info posted.. I eat out frequently.. best i can do is guesstimate or try to break it down by ingredient.

  • PAV8888
    PAV8888 Posts: 15,342 Member
    edited May 14

    Just guess based on similar items and recall.... 😳

    just take a picture or two and log the ingredients from the picture based on your best guess as to the contents πŸ‘πŸΌ

    Advanced logging foo:

    Split food in two (or order two meals, one to go). Analyse the take home portion. Works great for frequent meals. Or things like pizza slices if the last one DOES make it home!πŸ˜›

    A few years later decide that $20 for a car scale is cheaper than trying to not eat the slice of pizza you're supposedly taking home! 😳

    Take out car scale and tare, and resist licking vanilla cone till you make it back to car. Weigh vanilla cone. Repeat at up to 4 McDonald's and 12 samples, average vanilla cone to 300 Cal. Repeat exercise a few years later to re calibrate and double check (works great for me! πŸ˜›)

    Car scale works great for drive through restaurants in general -- and even eat in if you remember to take the scale in with you or go out to the car to get it before biting down!πŸ˜› A&W buddy burgers, onion rings, fries, pizza slices have all hit the $20 scale. Remarkably the USDA and esp the university of Minnesota entries (I log on another app) for burger and condiment combinations come very very close to the A&A weights I've measured. Rings and fries.... not as much.

    Fish and chips place was the first time i used the car scale at a restaurant.

    If they don't know you some restaurants go into a half panic thinking you may be some sort of inspector or secret shopper out to get them! Adds to the fun! Especially for sushi spots! 🀣

    Play with your hot and sour seafood soup bowl ordered with zero noodles or ordered with half noodles. Use an extra plate and the car scale. Register two samples and await collection of more.... so far 850 Cal for large no noodle, and 1200 Cal for large bowl (1450g of contents) w "half" noodles... but rice noodles were 500 Cal... so too much variation without more samples...

    It's a hard job but I guess I'll have to eat more hot and sour seafood soups πŸ€£πŸ˜‚πŸ€£πŸ˜‚

    I would probably not pull out a scale at the office party or at Gordon Ramsey's; but I have no issues pulling one out when eating by myself, or with a curated list of some of my friends.

    Otherwise I would just take a picture or two and log from the picture...

    10+ years later… I've yet to see a restaurant that's not happy to see my scale, myself, and my money...πŸ€‘

    Well possibly Gordo; but I haven't decided to give him my money yet!

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