I sometimes dont get this whole healthy thing

joanneee - I think you are confusing tsp (teaspoons) and tbsp (tablespoons). 2 tsp (teaspoons) of standard vegetable/canola/really anything oil is about 120 cals, and 2 tbsp (tablespoons) is roughly 6 tsp, making 2tbsps of oil actually more like 720cal.

venetianz - if you are making a meal, and sharing it, put everything in, and then, yes, set the number of people the meal will feed to be the appropriate number of servings. The calorie count in your recipe right now is probably correct based on the amount of oil that you were using.

Yeah 720cals sounds like an awful lot for 2 tbs of oil, sheesh!

kiwi185 -



no i am not confusing tablespoons with teaspoons. whether it is 2 tbsp or 2 tsp of oil neither should be 500 calories.

Last night i had chicken ala king. i bought the source which the amount i used was 100cals, used 2 tbsp of oil which is about 500, 1 breast fillet, and some veggies. besides the oil it looked like a very healthy meal, i shared all these with 2 more people, then how come MFP calorie count say i ate about 500 calories? Do i have to devide the total amount of that meal in 3 to get the exact amount of calories i ate? im trying to not eat more than 400 calories per meal

I would suggest to create this in MFP as a Recipe - this then enables you to also say how many servings you are doing this for - ie 3 people. As you ate 1 serving, MFP would calculate this for you based on the figures.

Also an idea for oil is to find a low calorie spray oil. We have it in the UK and it's great as it's only 1calorie per spray..

hmm... if I am mistaken, I most certainly apologize, however on the label of my vegetable oil it states 2 tsp = 120 cals. I dunno for sure though, I'm not at home.

edit: I found the entry that I use as it matches my oil at home.



Edit 2: rereading OP's entry, it is impossible to tell what oil she was using, as she does not specify. Using a conversion tool, I get that 2tbsps is roughly equivalent to 6tsps.

Edit 3: and I completely accept that my math was a bit off.

i'm not sure if you're serious. 6 x 2 teaspoons = 12 teaspoons of oil = 480 (correct)
12 tsp = 480
6 tsp = 240
2 tbsp = 240
2 tbsp = 6 tsps = 240
using your own label, 2 tbsp oil = 240. your label is correct. your math is wrong. your label states 2 tsp = 80 not 120.
2 tsp =/= 120
2 tbsp =/= 720

A tablespoon is THREE teaspoons.

I was just gonna post that

hmm... if I am mistaken, I most certainly apologize, however on the label of my vegetable oil it states 2 tsp = 120 cals. I dunno for sure though, I'm not at home.

edit: I found the entry that I use as it matches my oil at home.



Edit 2: rereading OP's entry, it is impossible to tell what oil she was using, as she does not specify. Using a conversion tool, I get that 2tbsps is roughly equivalent to 6tsps.

Edit 3: and I completely accept that my math was a bit off.

You have actually calculated 12 tsp of oil there. 6 x 2 tsp serving size. That may be the problem. HTH.

Last night i had chicken ala king. i bought the source which the amount i used was 100cals, used 2 tbsp of oil which is about 500, 1 breast fillet, and some veggies. besides the oil it looked like a very healthy meal, i shared all these with 2 more people, then how come MFP calorie count say i ate about 500 calories? Do i have to devide the total amount of that meal in 3 to get the exact amount of calories i ate? im trying to not eat more than 400 calories per meal

Note - not all oil is bad for you - use a good quality Olive Oil and your body will thank you for it...your body needs the good fats found in some oils

To add my two cents to the ongoing "t(b)sp-spoon-discussion": I can only strongly encourage everyone to get and use a food-scale. I found out that the TABLEspoons I'm using in my kitchen only hold about 7 grams of oil, which is about half the weight given by the label on the bottle and the estimations used in MFP. On the other hand I can easily load 7 or 8 grams of sugar on a TEAspoon if I want to, this time doubling some of the estimates you hear floating around.

When counting calories it helps a lot to actually incorporate the <actual> number of calories and nutrients eaten, and measures like cup, spoon, serving, piece sometimes confuse rather than help, especially in the beginning. After about two months of weighing most of my food (at least the food I prepare at home) I already got a lot better in estimating.

So if try weighing the next time you prepare chicken you will see it will come a lot closer to your perceptions. On a side note, I wouldn't say 500 calories for a meal is too much. And the point of eating <healthy> food is that they provide you with a lot more of the stuff your body needs to function properly than, say, a greasy burger or 500 cals of ice cream, and do a better job of making and keeping you feel full.

Crisco!! Do people actually still use that kind of stuff! Seriously - I'm not going to get into all the math of this. USE OLIVE OIL, much healthier! Eat a sensible portion and move on!

If you made a recipe be sure you input the number of servings the total of all cooked food was. Then you can log the SERVING. Otherwise mark it as 1 serving and put .33 in the serving box and it will calculate what one third of the recipe was.

500 for just the oil does sound high. Was it for the oil or for all the chicken PLUS oil? Was there other ingredients. I don't think the paragraph came out right.


6 times 2 tsp would be 12 tsp and 720 calories NOT 480 I've found that the math on the preview of nutrient isn't always what the real amount would be. It usually loads up in the diary correct but not sure why that preview link for nutrients doesn't always calculate the servings correctly. Bug maybe I dunno. My bottles of canola(Crisco brand) and olive oil both say the same 120 cal for 1 TABLESPOON even my coconut oil is 120 for tablespoon. Its clearly written out not abbreviated. So not sure why there is an mistake in the totals on here other than them being put in by people who probably don't know the difference between the abbreviations of tsp for teaspoon and TB, tbls or tbl for TABLESPOON. If it has a b its a tablespoon. I think people inputting them put tsp when it should have been TB.