Chinese Food Calories
 

As a "reward" for successfully completing my first year of graduate school,:cb: I decided to order Chinese food for dinner. But, the sites that I've found online don't help with the item that I ordered.:?:

How can I find how many calories are in 1/3 quart of shrimp with broccoli (brown sauce) with steamed brown rice on the side?

Thanks!

The way to figure it out is to isolate the ingredients and amounts, figure out how many cals each item is, then add it back together again.

So, how much brown rice did you eat?
How many shrimp and their approximate size?
Did the brown sauce taste watery or oily? How much brown sauce?
Broccoli is so low cal you don't need to add it in the total.

This is how we do each recipe.
Like if I make lasagna, I count up the pasta, the sauce, the cheese, the oil I added, etc. Then divide that total by the number of servings.

Yeah, it seems like a lot of work, but most of us eat the same 10-15 meals over and over, so once you've figured out each meal once, you're all set.

Here's a site to get you started:

http://www.cspinet.org/nah/chinese.html

Thank you Watercolor and Fat Chick B Gone!

WOW, I checked the link, looks like I will stick with my moo goo gai pan (sp?) and thank god I dont eat a full serving. The egg drop soup wasnt bad. I can keep that also! Very enlightening!!!

I can't believe how horrible the tofu and veggies are. I mean com'n TOFU?? Why deep fry it people?