Calorie Counting Website Alternatives?
 

I know most people here use Fitday or Nutridiary, but I have found there are so many things that are just not listed on those sites. I eat a variety of meals and don't have a lot of time every day to research and enter the nutritional info for everything. Does anyone know of any good reference sites that seem to encompass most of the common foods and their calories? Any help would be appreciated!

I'm having a similar problem too. It takes forever to look something up. I wish I had a program where I could just add in my foods and the calories would automatically come up on their own. For example...just type in 1/2 cup canned green beans and hit enter and the calories would come up instead of having to go hunt for them.

*sigh*...... in a perfect world, lol.

hmmm, I'm not sure what you mean. I do use fitday (currently using fitdaypc, but I used the online version for several months) and I do exactly what you wish you could do. :shrug:

I use fitday myself, it was a pain at first, but I cook from scratch so often that I think all the sites would be a pain.

I've heard that thedailyplate.com has a larger data base for pre-packaged foods. Maybe you could try that one? I used calorie-count.com sometimes too, I believe they have an online food diary option.

At first I felt the same way about fitday, but I have found that by searching other places and custom entering the foods I eat often I don't have as many problems now. I also let myself relax and just get a general idea of stuff instead of making sure its exactly what I had, if the stats are about the same I use it.

http://www.thedailyplate.com

They ALWAYS have what I'm looking for when I search foods - any brand, restaurant, you name it - it's there. Plus the layout is really appealing ... much better looking than Fitday. The calorie counts tend to be more accurate, and you can make your own meals by putting together different foods you search for. It's pretty much my favorite. :)

i have been using this site http://www.caloriesperhour.com/index.html
i dont know if it is better i have not used the others but i know it is right about the calories and things in the food i eat. :)

adah

Thanks, I really like thedailyplate. They definitely have a lot more of what I'm trying to look up. :)

Sometimes if i am having trouble finding something, i look it up in a little book i have. It is the "calorie King" book, it is just a little pocket book, but it has everything from corn on the cob to fast food.

I then log it in to my own little word doc. I got SO tired of having to make custom foods for stuff that fitday should already have.

But i do like my little book for a quick check.

I use myfooddiary.com it's like fitday but more user friendly, and the food database seems fairly large. You can custom input foods that aren't there to keep in your account and there is even a section for things you frequently eat called your "fridge". It does have a monthly fee though but not bad for 9 bucks.

-muse

I've been using calorie-count.com. The only problem I've had with them is the serving sizes. Sometimes it won't let me alter to 1/2 a serving, so I have to either let it go as I "ate 1 serving" when I really had 1/2 or I have to go and punch it all in myself.

I'm looking at the daily plate now and it looks good. But I don't see a weight graph/tracker...? I haven't explored fully yet so maybe it's there and I've just not seen it!

I use *********** sometimes, but since I'm not allowed to mention that here all you will see are stars :)

Still, if you don't eat something in the database you have to enter it. It's worth it to just enter things a few times and then you have your own stuff in the database for future use.

I use the USDA National Nutrient Database to look up calories - it'll come up on Google. It has some prepared foods, but tons of vegetables and fruits. You'd still have to enter the calories into your own website program or excel spreadsheet, but it's helpful to have just one place to look. Like everyone else, I've found that it gets easier over time - at a certain point, I found that I had looked up most of what I eat regularly, and therefore didn't have to spend so much time on it.

Well after using it yesterday, I'd definitely recommend thedailyplate.com. They've had everything I needed to look up so far and they let me choose my serving size, even if it's less than 1 serving. I really like it so far.

Fitday doesn't list many things, definitely not the packaged foods I eat. But the Daily Plate, while listing almost everything I eat, I constantly have to look it up rather than using it from the list. And, it's just so slow.

What I do is I take the nutritional info from the Daily Plate, plunk it into Fitday, and viola.

I used fitday for awhile but I absolute love thedailyplate.com - I have only had to add one item for over a week's worth of foods, and that was a local organic peanut butter! Everything else has been in there :)

I started using thedailyplate.com a few days ago too. Love it. I was on Weight Watchers Online before, but their website sucked. So slow!. I don't like the fitday.com interface, so I never used it.

I really had extremely low expectations for it, but The Daily Plate blew me away. So fast. So easy.

I've tried FitDay, NutriDiary, MyFoodDiary and CalorieKing and for me, the winner is Calorie King. They have over 50,000 foods in their database. Plus you can change the serving size around very easily. It automatically changes the nutritional info if you change it from 1 cup to .75 cup, stuff like that. It's $45 to download, but I'm glad I bought it!

I use Calorie King as a reference, too, but I prefer The Daily Plate for tracking. I use multiple computers, so I like having a web-only interface.

dont you have to pay for thedailyplate? I have been using fitday for over a year and I thought the dailyplate looked really cool but I cant add food??/

I bought the Fitday download which I find much nicer to use than the free one. I use calorie-count.com and the daily plate to find things and plug in the numbers in Fitday. I also make a lot of my own custom foods so that I don't have to do that all the time.

I've been a FitDay user for many years, and recently switched to the Daily Plate. I like how the Daily Plate has many, many more foods (haven't had to add one yet!). However, I'm also disappointed by a few things, especially the way you enter your servings. There's usually only one option for entering servings in the Daily Plate - you have to put number of standard servings, and can't select whether you'd rather enter cups, grams, or something else. FitDay usually had that option. Also, FitDay has better graphs and reports. Overall, though, I think the Daily Plate is easier to use.