calories in homemade foods

[kca1fan 326]

How do you determine the calories in something you made from scratch? For example I made homemade beef and drop noodles and had 1 cup. How do I determine the calories?

[this sucks 557]

If you use an app like MyFitnessPal, you can create recipes by scanning the labels on each of the ingredients and entering in the number of servings. Or, you can just search the ingredients and add them that way if you don't use a smartphone.

That way you have accurate nutritional information. It gives you calories, carbs, sodium, fat, etc. per serving. I have saved a lot of my favorites and use the info all the time.

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I do it the same way as rkimom but I use Lose It! It has a section for recipes so I either scan in each ingredient or just manually type it in. Then, it's saved for the future, so any time I make the same thing again I just pull it from the database. It's really easy!

[tym4me 206]

I use CalorieCount the same as the first 2 posters

[kca1fan 326]

thanks guys. I guess I gotta start measuring my ingredients. Doubt if a handful of this and a shake of that are in there.

[destynee1 417]

lol kc! thats true.. time to count.. I always cook that way as well! I also use myfitnesspal. they are all great added tools! try it!