how many calories in home made raspberry vingerette

Hink4Iowa
Hink4Iowa Posts: 79 Member
edited November 2024 in Food and Nutrition
i have a recipe and want to know how many calories for 2 tbsp anyone know how to do this

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  • cmayfield3
    cmayfield3 Posts: 176 Member
    Enter all the ingredients into a recipe (if you are using the website, it's under the Food tab).
  • DivaDiane
    DivaDiane Posts: 73
    Enter your recipe in mfp and it will calculate the calories for you. You do need to indicate just how many servings is in the total, however. So, if the recipe makes 1/2 cup, for example, and your serving size is 2 tablespoons, then you need to mark the recipe as having 4 servings, since there are 8 tablespoons in 1/2 cup.
  • Hink4Iowa
    Hink4Iowa Posts: 79 Member
    diva you sound like you know how to do it if i put the ingredients can you helop me out
  • Hink4Iowa
    Hink4Iowa Posts: 79 Member
    1/3 cup seedless red raspberry preserves
    1/2 c vegetable oil
    1/4 tsp onion powder
    1/2 tsp dry mustard
    1/4 c sugar
    3 Tbsp red wine vinegar


    need calories for 2 tbsp
  • treetop57
    treetop57 Posts: 1,578 Member
    Or just pick one of the Raspberry Vinaigrettes in the database. There are a bunch of them, but they all seems to be around 30-50 calories per 2 tablespoons.

    (You'll get better results with "vinaigrette." Unfortunately for us English speakers, it's spelled as if it were French. And MFP doesn't do well with misspellings!)
  • deadstarsunburn
    deadstarsunburn Posts: 1,337 Member
    1/3 cup seedless red raspberry preserves
    1/2 c vegetable oil
    1/4 tsp onion powder
    1/2 tsp dry mustard
    1/4 c sugar
    3 Tbsp red wine vinegar


    need calories for 2 tbsp


    Add it just like that in recipes than figure that I THINK 16 tablespoons in a cup.
  • treetop57
    treetop57 Posts: 1,578 Member
    That adds up to a tad over 1 1/4 cups, which is 20 tablespoons.

    Go to the recipe calculator ( http://www.myfitnesspal.com/recipe/calculator ), say the recipe makes 10 servings, and enter the ingredients.

    I'd make the title something like "Raspberry vinaigrette (2 TBSP)" so you remember the serving size.
  • Hink4Iowa
    Hink4Iowa Posts: 79 Member
    i still clusless would anybody just be kind to figure it out for dumb with math figuring
  • treetop57
    treetop57 Posts: 1,578 Member
    There goes my 30-50 calorie theory!

    vinaigrette-1.jpg
  • treetop57
    treetop57 Posts: 1,578 Member
    Our catch-as-catch-can measuring system doesn't make this easy.

    You have to know that there are 3 teaspoons in a tablespoon (to enter the sugar) and 16 tablespoons in a cup (to enter the oil and preserves).
  • DivaDiane
    DivaDiane Posts: 73
    ok, here goes. I've never uploaded a photo before...

    oops. let me try again.
  • treetop57
    treetop57 Posts: 1,578 Member
    I don't know if this is the problem you're having, but MFP only accepts "img"; "IMG" doesn't work.
  • DivaDiane
    DivaDiane Posts: 73
    <a href="http://i1156.photobucket.com/albums/p569/bb1diane/RaspberryVinaigrette.jpg">Try this link?</a>

    OK, I'm officially a moron.
  • treetop57
    treetop57 Posts: 1,578 Member
    You have to put [ img] in front of the URL and [ /img] after. Some idiot thought that was simpler than letting us just use the actual HTML.
  • treetop57
    treetop57 Posts: 1,578 Member
    Interesting. Our total calories for the recipe came out pretty close, but you divided by 8 servings and I divided by 10.
  • DivaDiane
    DivaDiane Posts: 73
    One more time?
    I give up.

    My recipe came out to be 178 calories per 2 Tablespoons.
  • TourThePast
    TourThePast Posts: 1,753 Member
    RaspberryVinaigrette.jpg
    That recipe calls for a whole TABLESPOON of oil PER SERVING!

    That's ludicrous, the OP doesn't need a calorie count, she needs a sane recipe, where did that one come from, www.makemeobese.com? :bigsmile:
  • DivaDiane
    DivaDiane Posts: 73
    never mind with the url.....

    I agree....that is way too much oil for a recipe of this size. Try this.

    Raspberry Vinaigrette
    INGREDIENTS
    • Equal parts olive oil and raspberry vinegar
    • 1 t. Dijon mustard
    • Salt
    • Minced garlic
    PREPARATION:
    Whisk ingredients together.
  • treetop57
    treetop57 Posts: 1,578 Member
    I forgot to tell you to take out the spaces! Sorry.

    RaspberryVinaigrette.jpg
  • DivaDiane
    DivaDiane Posts: 73
    Thank you, treetop57. I am now officially not a moron. :)
  • Hink4Iowa
    Hink4Iowa Posts: 79 Member
    thats probably why i havent lost any weight this week cause i had to much homemade raspberry vinaigrette:sad: !
  • Pebble321
    Pebble321 Posts: 6,423 Member
    thats probably why i havent lost any weight this week cause i had to much homemade raspberry vinaigrette:sad: !

    That recipe builder is a great tool - I tend to think that I'm pretty good at estimating calories but I still get surprised from time to time - sometimes things come out a lot higher or lower than I expect. I usually enter recipes before I make them so I can see the cals/serving and it lets me make adjustments (like use half the amount of oil, or add more veggies etc).
  • TourThePast
    TourThePast Posts: 1,753 Member
    thats probably why i havent lost any weight this week cause i had to much homemade raspberry vinaigrette:sad: !
    What has worked well for me is finding out the calories and then making a decision about whether or not to eat it, rather than eating something and then having a nasty shock afterwards.

    I realise this one wasn't easy for you to calculate, but as a general rule, anything with a high fat content is likely to have a high calorie count. :smile:
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