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MOMCHEERS
1/29/08 10:37 P
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Hi Amber -- I asked this very question my first week on Spark... somebody pointed me in a GREAT direction!
Go to Sparkrecipes.com They have a recipe calculator... Add all of your ingredients, decide how many servings it makes, and it gives you the entire breakdown for that recipe, per serving...
One word of caution though... if the ingredient isn't in their bank, you can't add it like you can in your food diary here, so sometimes you have to do the calculations and then add the ingredients later when you add it to your nutrition guide...
Try it out! It works pretty good for most things!
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How can I put my recipe in the tracker? I have all the ingredients, and I want to find the calories for the recipe. Does that make sense? I can't do what they tell me to do in the help section. Thanks!
Nan
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| nice suggestions.....measure your treasure, make your treasure a pleasure.
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I agree. Punching in the food and ea. measurement as a recipe will help you determing individual servings.
One thing I've learned from Spark is measure, measure, measure.
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You did exactly the way I do, but I do it on Sparks under food groupings, that way I can save it.
My veggie soup right now is 155 calories and 1 fat gram, for 2 cups. When I make another pot and decide to add something different to it I can go in and edit my food grouping list and it is much easier.
Food groupings work great for meals that you have often, for example mine is Special K with FF milk and a banana. Or chicken breast, baked sweet potato, cup of green beans, and cottage cheese. If they are meals I repeat often I put them in a food grouping and then I can just select it one time istead on selecting each individual item each time.
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| idk if you can add numbers as callories or protine, I think you have to do it as food items. But if you know what was in it (and apparently you do), you can punch it in as a recipe and get your tracker to track it.
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| I do that all the time, just did today, actually. I think you just have to make a recipe for it and add it to your tracker that way. Kinda time-consuming, imo, but it does work.
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AMUELLERIV
1/4/08 11:40 A
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Ok so here is what I did. Let me know if you have any other ideas. LOL
I scooped the big pot into two containers. It was 20 scoops. I added up the total calories and etc for the soup and divided by 20 scoops. I ate 4 scoops...so I multiplied by 4. LOL.
whole pot
1065 calories
5 grams fat
209 carbs
42 protien
My portion:
212 calories
.25 fat
10.5 carbs
2.1 protein
Does that sound right? Ok way to do it?
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AMUELLERIV
1/4/08 11:24 A
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homemade soup. I threw a bunch of stuff in big pot and cant figure out how to calculate it!
If there is thread about this somewhere I could not find. Sorry if re posted.
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