Can anyone help with a question about calories?

PhoenyxRising
PhoenyxRising Posts: 68 Member
edited October 7 in Food and Nutrition
I am having a problem with finding the nutritional info (mainly calories) for my dinner this evening. I made a potato and corn chowder, a family recipe that's a staple in our house, but when I looked up "potato corn chowder"- there were so many choices! I went with a generic one, one that stated "homemade", and one from a can. Each one listed different calories and not just a small difference- differences ranging from 420 calories to 1140 calories. Does anyone know if there is a place on the site that might be able to help me better estimate the correct number of calories and if not, what should I do?

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  • Pandorian
    Pandorian Posts: 2,055 Member
    Sure. Works for all meals I prepare at home

    Click Food > Click recipes > enter ingredients tell it how many servings, log a serving in my diary.
  • Cr8tive_Ingenuity
    Cr8tive_Ingenuity Posts: 181
    pandorian beat me too it...just make sure you really get the servings correctly done
  • Jeff92se
    Jeff92se Posts: 3,369 Member
    You have to make your own receipe by entering in each ingredient and how much. So the next time you make it, it will all be there to click
  • mrnls
    mrnls Posts: 92 Member
    Try entering it as your own recipe and add each ingredient individually. It's the best way to get a home recipe calculated. Hope this helps.
  • SammyKatt
    SammyKatt Posts: 363 Member
    You can build the recipe on here. Under the food tab there is a spot called recipes and you can add everything in it and figure it out.
  • TheMrs1006
    TheMrs1006 Posts: 11 Member
    What I did was go into my recipe and put in all my ingredients and how many it serves and it will give you a calorie count for each serving. I hope this helps
  • dimagriamo
    dimagriamo Posts: 1
    I would add up all the individual ingredients, then divide by the number of servings (will probably need to measure total volume and then divide by cups, or, if you don't have a measure that big, scoop out a cup or half cup at a time, and see how many you get, transferring to another container). It's more work, but, if this is a staple in your house, at least you'll get an accurate count.
  • jml107
    jml107 Posts: 27
    This is a slower process but if you go to food and then recipes you can add your recipe if you know the ingredients. Then you will be 100% sure of the calories, fat, iron, etc. :) Like I said it is a bit of a process but it is pretty awesome.
  • PhoenyxRising
    PhoenyxRising Posts: 68 Member
    Thanks to everyone.. I didn't even realize they had this feature. Now I feel stupid for asking.. LOL. Oh well, at least now I know! Next time I'll do some more searching first. :P Thanks again!
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