[walking2lose]

Hi all,

I seem to remember reading some posts about how to enter in all ingredients for a recipe and then getting the calorie count per serving. I googled calorie converter and recipe calorie conversion and a few other searches, but I couldn't find what I was looking for. I know I could do the math, but I have a few recipes I'm trying to convert, so I'm being a bit lazy.

If anyone knows a site for this, please let me know. Thanks!

[chick_in_the_hat]

I add a custom food in Fitday - I look up all the ingradients and add up the fat, protein, carbs and so on. Then I divide by number of servings. It's there next time I make the recipe - so I only have to do it once.

[walking2lose]

Thanks, Gina. I didn't think of using fitday. I actually went back and searched some more and found a recipe analyzer. I used it to analyze a WW recipe posted by Nelie a couple days ago - for an asian peanut sauce.

If anyone else is interested, here's the break down for the sauce. It makes 6 servings - a serving is 2 T. It calls for natural peanut butter, which I normally buy, but I only had my husband's reduced fat jif. So I think the calories would be a tad higher with the natural pb. Anyway, it came out to

89 calories
5.6 g fat
1.1 g sat fat
208 sodium
6.9 carb
.8 fiber
3g protein

I had it over shirataki noodles with chopped veggies. I absolutely loved it!

[rockinrobin]

It's calorie-count.com. That's the site you're looking for.

[walking2lose]

Thanks, Robin! Yes, that's the one I found and used. What a helpful site! At first, all I kept finding were ones that converted measurements, but with a little perseverance I found it. I'm being lazy today.

[mxgirl737]

here's a recipe calculator. It's what I use. I love it.

http://recipes.sparkpeople.com/recipe-calculator.asp

[chunkydunkin]

The Daily Plate (thedailyplate.com) also lets you put in ingredients and get the calorie counts.

[Scenestealer]

Be careful with calorie-count. It tends to be MUCH higher than if you actually added up the foods individually (usually anywhere from 100-400 cals/serving too high!), probably because it uses generic versions of ingredients and most of them seem to be a bit overestimated on calories. I use it to get a rough idea of how healthy a recipe is, but I enter all mine by using DailyPlate's recipe feature, which lets you specify quantities and brands of ingredients, adds it all up, and divides by the servings.