calculating nutrition information on homemade items

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cakorineck
cakorineck Posts: 8
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Help-I like to make a lot of my food from scratch, but then have no idea what the calories would be for 1 piece of, for example, meatloaf. I also make my own meatballs from a mix of beef and pork and I wouldn't know where to start for the nutritional value of those either, or for the oatmeal cookies I just made and substituted natural applesauce and Splenda. Does anyone have a formula?

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  • cakorineck
    cakorineck Posts: 8
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    Help-I like to make a lot of my food from scratch, but then have no idea what the calories would be for 1 piece of, for example, meatloaf. I also make my own meatballs from a mix of beef and pork and I wouldn't know where to start for the nutritional value of those either, or for the oatmeal cookies I just made and substituted natural applesauce and Splenda. Does anyone have a formula?
  • LuckyLeprechaun
    LuckyLeprechaun Posts: 6,296 Member
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    http://caloriecount.about.com/cc/recipe_analysis.php

    this is a great tool!
  • LuckyLeprechaun
    LuckyLeprechaun Posts: 6,296 Member
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    and you don't have to sign up, just enter the info-
  • ktthegr8
    ktthegr8 Posts: 479
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    bump:happy: For the link, Thank you! I've been looking for something like that:flowerforyou:
  • cakorineck
    cakorineck Posts: 8
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    thanks I will try it!!
  • Binkylove
    Binkylove Posts: 161
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  • dclarsh
    dclarsh Posts: 364
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    I'm a real nerd so I made my own excel spreadsheet to calculate the nutritional information for all my homemade stuff. I'd be happy to send it to you if the website isn't doing it for you.
  • cakorineck
    cakorineck Posts: 8
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    Thanks I am mathematician, and pretty nerdy myself. LOL If the site doesn't work I will keep you in mind.
    Thanks again
  • Tamrahan
    Tamrahan Posts: 29
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    bump:happy: For the link, Thank you! I've been looking for something like that:flowerforyou:
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    Me too.:smokin: ]

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