I've been watching calories on packages for awhile, but I'm new to counting calories for meals to cook at home. I don't know a lot about how many calories are in cook uncooked vs cooked, especially when sauces are involved. I've been cooking healthier for awhile now, but I thought perhaps I went over my count today so I double checked everything.

Proportions below...

I cooked some sliced bell peppers and onions with a garlic clove and 2 dashes of salt. After a few minutes I added a whole tomato, sliced, and some juice from a del monte stewed tomatoe can. No butter. No olive oil.

In a seperate pan, a 5oz chicken breast was seared with a dash of pepper and herbs. I used the Smart Balance non stick spray for this one, 1/3 a second, supposedly no calories.

Mixed two dishes together, bake on 350 for 30 minutes.

Calorie Counter by SparkPeople
Green Peppers (bell peppers), 1 cup, strips 38
Yellow Peppers (bell peppers), 5 strips 7
Garlic, 1 clove 4
Red Ripe Tomatoes, 1 large whole (3" dia) 38
Pepper, black, 3 dash 1
Salt, 2 dash
Onions, raw, 1 cup, sliced 44
Perdue Boneless, Skinless Chicken Breast, All Natural, 1 filet, 4.8 oz., 1.5 serving 210
del monte stewed tomatoe mex. style, 0.5 cup 35

Dinner TOTALS: 377


Is this right? It seemed like an lot of food to be under 400 calories. My turkey sandwich lunch with an orange was more calories than this.

Valuable lesson - if you eat high volume, low-cal foods (like all those veggies in that meal), you end up with a lot of food for a lower number of calories. Bread and etc. will raise the calories, which explains why the turkey sandwich was higher.

I've been eating the Healthy Life 35 calorie bread for lunch sandwiches and sometimes breakfast meals. I suppose I never figured the quantity difference would be so much. Just got back from the gym and still feeling like I overate even though I only managed 1,200 calories today.

Look right to me.