Hi Everyone

Does anyone know of a place on the web to translate a recipe into nutrition information? Everything I've found is for creating data bases. I just want to figure out the nut. info. of my scone recipe so I can enter them into Fitday.

TIA, Beth

I saw a link just recently which I was looking for just the other day and I didn't find it...I hope someone replies... I'm curious too....

www.nutritiondata.com and www.fitwatch.com. I think you can also do it on www.calorie-count.com.

Thanks Blue! Those were the ones I was looking for, I've now booked marked them...

Thanks, Blue! Fitwatch got me as close as I think I can get to knowing the "truth" about my scones. Whheeeww Doggies! But those scones sure are high in calories and carbs. Much better than store bought coffee shop scones as I try to make them really healthy but, sheesh, glad I don't indulge everyday!!!

Beth

I give a second vote for calorie-count.com. That site is so amazing! If you find a recipe online, you can copy and paste it into their little calculator so you know exactly how many calories the recipe will be.

on calorie-count.com, click on analyze recipe (about 1/2 way down the homepage), you can then add in each ingredient, number of servings, and you'll get a read out for the entire recipe; make sure you enter things they way they want or it will omit parts of the recipe that it doesn't understand; look on the bottom right of the screen to see what it added in and what it couldnt understand so you can re-enter it better.

Yeah I keep almost getting screwed by calorie-count. I have to look at each individual green-flag to make sure it actually DID understand what I meant. And sometimes "lowfat" is ignored but "low-fat" isn't. I wish those red flags were a bit more eye-catching or a warning would pop up and say "not all ingredients were exactly matched" or something.

You're wecome!

Here is a scone recipe that comes out great that is only 130 calories per scone. The scones are a little on the small side but if you want larger scones, you could cut the dough into ten pieces and it would still be only around 160 calories per scone.

Scottish Scones
1/2 cup 2% milk
1 egg
2 cups flour plus more for work surface
2 tsps baking powder
1 tsp salt
1 tbsp sugar
1/4 margarine (at least 65% vegetable oil)

1. Combine milk and egg and set aside.
2. Stir flour, baking powder, salt, and sugar. Cut in margine with pastry cutter until mixture resembles course meal.
3. Make a well in the center of the dry ingredients, pour milk and egg into well, then stir until just combined. Turn dough out onto a floured surface and knead very lightly 8 to 10 times. Form dough into a ball and pat out into a circle about 1 inch thick. Cut into 12 wedges.
4. Place wedges on baking sheet lined with parchment paper and bake at 450 for 10-12 minutes.

Makes 12 scones. Nutrition (per scone): 130 calories, 4g fat, 1g saturated fat, 19mg cholesterol, 300mg sodium, 20g carbs, .6g fiber, 1.3g sugar, 3g protein.

To make the scones more interesting, you can stir in various dried fruit; frozen blueberries, peaches, or other fruit; fresh or dried herbs; lemon zest and poppyseeds; chocolate chips; chopped nuts; whatever you want. I made a goat cheese and fresh rosemary version that came out great (the goat cheese did increase the calories to about 140 per scone).

You also might be able to reduce the calories further by using 1% milk, skim milk, or soy milk in place of the 2% milk and 1/4 cup eggbeaters instead of the egg. If you are worried more about trans fats than calories, use butter instead of the margarine.