Try http://nutritiondata.com. You can search (or custom enter) your foods, add them to your pantry, divide the recipe by how many servings you want to get out of it and voila, you have the full nutrition data for your recipe per serving size. You can even print the nutrition label for your own records, if you like. Best of all, it is a free website and works with all computers, not just Windows operated computers.
ZEERN3 4/25/06 7:53 A
I love the Living Cookbook software! Someone else here recommended it and I've been using it ever since. I've been gradually adding my family's recipes, a little bit every day or so. It's amazing to find out what's in everything I've been making over the years.
There is a learning curve involved; it took me some figuring out to get the nutritional info to work but not too long. I just love it! I'm entering all my recipes and when my daughters leave for their own households, I'm going to have them bound and presented to them. They include all my comments from over the years such as "Everyone loved this! Becky had 3 pieces!" etc.
There is a free trial you can experiment with. And the program itself is not very expensive if you decide to buy it. $29 to $35 (I forget).
www.livingcookbook.com
RODENTMAMA 4/25/06 7:38 A
I used to use a nutrition program online called Nutrawatch. I really like the spark community better and Nutrawatch is only free for the nutrition part, you have to pay to upgrade for exercise logging and stuff.
BUT, they have a really good method to do your recipes up. I find the food grouping on SP is great if I'm making a sandwich but that the foods can be a bit limited if you are making something baked or a casserole or something and I found Nutrawatch easier to handle that way.
I'd do up my recipe as a custom food in Nutrawatch and print out the nutritional info to then input on SP. A bit fuddly to do maybe, but if it is something you are having all the time then it would be worth it. For me, I do a lot of homemade food and just approximate from what is on the food listing already. Or I'll simplify a recipe...like last night I had Egyptian rice which is mostly hamburger and rice. The sodium levels wouldn't be right for my nutritional listing, but just logging as rice and ground beef is good enough for me.
Theresa
ALHANALASA 4/25/06 7:18 A
I use the food groupings option to do that.
On the nutrition page, click "Add a food", then from there, click on 'Food Groupings', and go to "Create a new food grouping". Add all the ingredients in the recipe (click on "add food to this grouping"). When you close the add food window and go back to the "create food grouping", you'll see the ingredients you've listed, with a total of calories, carbs, fat, etc.
If you save it, you can just add that as a group to your calorie tracker. If the recipe mades 8 servings, you'd enter 0.13 servings when you add it (1/8). I think that's easier than dividing each ingredient.
PANGGA 4/24/06 11:42 P
Is there a way to enter my own recipe of something and find out the calories/protein/carb/fat/etc. content of that homemade food??
