[littlebiskit]

Even if I cut all other restaurants out of my life, the one I'm not going to be able to quit is a Mongolian Stir Fry place by us, and while I feel pretty good about it, I have no idea of any good way to calculate it. Any ideas?

My usual bowl includes a lot of chicken, a few fat noodles (I CAN do it with no noodles, but I enjoy it a lot more with so I'm sticking with that for now), spinach, as much broccoli as I can fit in the bowl, some shoots, some mushrooms, maybe some carrots.... Then the ginger water, minced garlic, house sauce, spicy house, a little cooking oil and cooking wine, and a bit of teriyaki. All in a single bowl, and then the cooks cook it up on one of those big grills, keeping it moist with a mixture (I've been told) of water and soy sauce.

Anyone know if any of the cal counters out there do a good job with this sort of meal? I have half a mind to just count the meal super high, like 700-800 points and then not worry about it, but I'd rather have something more concrete.

[untamed]

Don't know if this is the same one near you, but this is the nutrition info for the one I've been to....maybe it will give you an idea of the calorie count for yours?

http://www.gomongo.com/menuPDFs/NutritionInfo.pdf

[LovelyLeah]

When I go to places like this I usually fill the bowl almost entirely with veggies, the add a small amount of me can the I go easy on the sauces. But as for figuring out the calories, I don't have a clue. You can probably guesstimate easily enough things like veggies and meat. But sauces get tricky because you aren't sure what all they have in the sauce.

[littlebiskit]

Hmmm, I think I'm just going to estimate at 700 calories I guess. I skipped a bunch of stuff, only used like 1/2 c. of the noodles. Skipped the fried wontons, skipped the steamed seseme bun, skipped the rice, skipped the cooking oil. Asked for peanuts but left most of them (along with a lot of the noodles, honestly) on my plate.

I'm HOPING that I'm over-estimating, but food that tastes THAT good can't be less than that.

[one small bowl]

When I have mixtures, I look at what I can figure out. First, how much is the whole serving? If if is a cup, then I estimate the balance, half meat and half veggies? So I would enter half a cup of meat and half a cup of veggies to my data base and then add a tablespoon of stirfry type sauce. It doesn't have to be precise, but it's important to me to make the best estimate I can without getting too worked up about it.