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Sun, 06-15-2008 - 7:20pm
Do any of you knowq of a web site where I can put my own recipes in and have the nutritional analysis of them done?  I have been to calorieKing but they have their own recipes.  I have some old family recipes I would like to lighten up but I need to know where I am starting.


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Sun, 06-15-2008 - 8:30pm

I don't know of a web site that does that but, in the past I have taken the recipe and the ingredients, figured out the carbs/calories from Calorie King since you can find tsp, cup, etc.


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Mon, 06-16-2008 - 12:46am
I actually have a Church's Guide to Nutritional Information and have done exactly what you suggest.


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Mon, 06-16-2008 - 10:13am

Hello, a site to put your own data in is> www.fitday.com. You can put your own info in, or pick one that they have and it will tell you all you need to know. It will also add up info as you go along each day, so that at the end of the day you will know, amount of fat, protein, carbs, etc you had for the day. It is a great way to keep track of your diet. It is a free site. You join and then have a name and password to go into as often as you want. You can also keep track of exercise, goals, etc. Again A great site.!!!


Good luck, Barbara119

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Mon, 06-16-2008 - 11:51am
Oh Wonderful, I will try it today.


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Mon, 06-16-2008 - 4:13pm

I went there but it doesn't (as far as I could see) let me enter the ingredients in a recipe and then figure out a serving. For instance, my hubby's vegetarian chili is 15 oz can black beans, 15 oz can pinto beans, 15 oz can great northern beans, 15 oz can tomato sauce, 1 pkg frozen corn, 1 pkg frozen bell peppers, seasonings. So, how many calories, carbs, etc in a one cup serving? I saw where it lets me enter a 'custom food' but that looks for me to enter all the data (I'd have to calculate it all out first - which is what I do now - I 'guesstimate' how many one cup servings we get out of the batch then find out the data on each from the label and add it all together).

--Deb

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Mon, 06-16-2008 - 4:23pm

Deb, you take the info from the can of whatever and put it into the custome slot. You can look on their lists to see if what you have is in their file. I find it very easy with the info on the can as to carbs, fat, etc. That is very easy and you don't have anything to figure out. OR YOU USE THEIR lists. Such as fruit: You can put a small apple, med, or large and it will figure the data for you (from their list).


Once you put in the info on custome, it is saved on there so that you can use it over and over again as you eat it. You will find all kinds of food on their list, but I find it very easy to put everything in custome....then if you eat 2 oz of something, it will tell you how the data for just the 2 oz. I don't know of any site that you can just put in say 1 cup pasta and it spouts out the data. You have to read the labels and insert in custome. The best part of this site is that it keeps a running track all day for you so that you can see how much fat, protein, carbs, etc you are eating.

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Tue, 06-17-2008 - 11:08am

That's as much work on my part as simply calculating it myself and keeping it in a spreadsheet on my desktop. What I was hoping for was something that I put in "15 oz can of black beans, 15 oz can of tomato sauce" and it calculates the values for that 'recipe'. I can do it by hand myself (actually, I use a spreadsheet and the Calorie Counter Database website so it's not precisely by hand - and I'll jot down the info from the package if it's available). I keep a weekly tally of what I've had day by day (so I know that on Monday I had x for breakfast which is a calories, b carbs, c sodium, d potassium and e fiber; y for a snack; z for lunch; q for another snack; and m for dinner. It gives me a total of each meal's carbs plus daily totals for all categories. I also pop in how long I walked and it does a flat subtraction from the calories for the time. Anything new I eat gets copied over into other sheets in the workbook for veggies, grains, proteins, whatever category it fits in so I have that info on hand AND I have a space for whole dishes (like chili or bean burgers) so that I don't have to calculate it out repeatedly. The weekly averages for each category get copied to a summary page so I can see how I'm doing on average over time. And, each daily total highlights in color to let me know if it's on target, too high or too low. So, once I get done with an afternoon snack and plug in expected dinner, I can see if I might need to add a snack or adjust portions for dinner or whatever to get enough calories (so I don't get the munchies) or reduce carbs or what have you. Best of all, I don't have to go online to do it.

--Deb

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Tue, 06-17-2008 - 11:16am
Good for you Deb. Sorry about the web site. I really never heard of a site giving the info you want. How is it to know whether the can of whatever has sugar in it, or fiber, etc. Just putting in a can of black beans really isn't much information to go on. So, I guess you have to do it by hand or get info on the product. Good luck. Barbara1751
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Tue, 06-17-2008 - 11:44am

Deb;


Your spread sheet idea sound wonderful, although a lot of work.


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Tue, 06-17-2008 - 2:40pm
I know there used to be software to do something like that...

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