anyone know to calculate calories in homemade food?

charbear94
charbear94 Posts: 43
in Food and Nutrition
hi there, I need some help figuring out my calories in some homemade green beans. I stink at math however :( lol i can't figure it out! I used 3 can's of Libby's green beans. 1 serving=1/2 cup=20 calories, 0 fat. each can had 3.5 serving, which means a total of 10.5 cups of green beans. Then I added probably 2 tblspoons of canola oil. 1 tblspoon=120 calories, 14g fat. so after cooking, if i have 1/2 cup serving of green beans, how many calories and fat have i had?

if anyone has done this before and can help i would greatly appreciate it!

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  • beachlover317
    beachlover317 Posts: 2,848 Member
    Click on food, then recipes, then the enter new food bar. It lets you enter each ingredient for your homeade food and totals the cals for the whole dish and each serving. It also saves your recipes .
  • Sarasari
    Sarasari Posts: 139 Member
    If you go to food,then recipes,click enter new recipe and enter in all the info. The tool will figure all info for you.
  • mcarter99
    mcarter99 Posts: 1,666 Member
    Check out the Recipe tab in the food area. It does it for you. Just enter all the ingredients and the number of servings and it gives you the info per serving.

    Or add up all the calories of the items and all the fat grams and divide by the number of servings.

    Or just log 1/2 cup of canned green beans through the app, and a tiny bit of canola oil, like 10 calories worth (240 calories total divided by about 20 servings).

    Whichever way, the calorie and fat amount is going to be very small and probably not worth stressing over getting just right.
  • charbear94
    charbear94 Posts: 43
    thanks so much everyone! this is going to come be very handy for me, considering im cooking at home ALL WEEK lol :) had no idea MFP had that on here!

    Thanks tons!
  • Prudiddy
    Prudiddy Posts: 262 Member
    If you go to food,then recipes,click enter new recipe and enter in all the info. The tool will figure all info for you.
    ^ this one. Good luck!
  • PayneAS
    PayneAS Posts: 669 Member
    I enter all the ingredients (via barcode scan) as a meal (dinner, lunch, w/e) then under Quick Tools - Remember Meal. Then add the description as well as how many servings you can make. I.e. I made a pork loin meal the other day and the total was 32 ozs. So in the description I put "Rosemary garlic pork loin (8-4oz servings). When I use it as a meal, 1 serving would be 0.125 of the meal (one divided by eight).

    I do have to take the extra step to delete the complete meal from the meal time (dinner) then re-add it properly but I don't know of any other way of doing it.

    Hopefully this wasn't too confusing.
  • Robin_Bin
    Robin_Bin Posts: 1,046 Member
    As others have said, enter it as a recipe on this site. Then you can use it again later.

    But to help with the math...
    hi there, I need some help figuring out my calories in some homemade green beans. I stink at math however :( lol i can't figure it out! I used 3 can's of Libby's green beans. 1 serving=1/2 cup=20 calories, 0 fat. each can had 3.5 serving, which means a total of 10.5 cups of green beans. Then I added probably 2 tblspoons of canola oil. 1 tblspoon=120 calories, 14g fat. so after cooking, if i have 1/2 cup serving of green beans, how many calories and fat have i had?

    if anyone has done this before and can help i would greatly appreciate it!
    You made it more difficult than you needed. First add up all the calories, then divide by the number of servings.
    in this case, the number of ounces doesn't matter. The number of servings was 10.5. Times the number of calories or 20. 10.5*20=210. Add the 2 Tbsp of canola oil or 2*120=240. So 450 calories total. Now divide by the number of servings. How many servings will you have? If it makes about 10 servings... 450/10=45, so 45 calories per serving. Enter that as one of your foods. But entering the recipe is easier.
  • charbear94
    charbear94 Posts: 43
    As others have said, enter it as a recipe on this site. Then you can use it again later.

    But to help with the math...
    hi there, I need some help figuring out my calories in some homemade green beans. I stink at math however :( lol i can't figure it out! I used 3 can's of Libby's green beans. 1 serving=1/2 cup=20 calories, 0 fat. each can had 3.5 serving, which means a total of 10.5 cups of green beans. Then I added probably 2 tblspoons of canola oil. 1 tblspoon=120 calories, 14g fat. so after cooking, if i have 1/2 cup serving of green beans, how many calories and fat have i had?

    if anyone has done this before and can help i would greatly appreciate it!
    You made it more difficult than you needed. First add up all the calories, then divide by the number of servings.
    in this case, the number of ounces doesn't matter. The number of servings was 10.5. Times the number of calories or 20. 10.5*20=210. Add the 2 Tbsp of canola oil or 2*120=240. So 450 calories total. Now divide by the number of servings. How many servings will you have? If it makes about 10 servings... 450/10=45, so 45 calories per serving. Enter that as one of your foods. But entering the recipe is easier.

    yeah i used the my recipes tool on here and calculated that exactly lol. you are right, i was making it way too complicated! thanks for help with the math! :)

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