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Author: Rhonda 232/221/170
Date: 07-31-03 11:14
I have a family of five so I am always cooking meals for the family. This is my problem/question; when I make a recipe, say for a casserole that might have 10 ingredients, it is almost impossible to keep track of calories. And then there is the whole question of serving size if I were able to get a calorie total for the recipe.
Does anyone have a good solution for this that I can't think of? When I try to guess it bothers me that I might be having 200 or even 500 too many calories. Hey, for me 500 calories is a big deal!!
Thanks for any thoughts.
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Author: Gary 360/317/175
Date: 07-31-03 11:25
.....I do the cooking in my house and I agree it can be a challenge to keep track of the calories of all the ingrediants in a receipe but it gets easier after a while because you start remembering calorie amounts for many of the basic ingredients like onions, green peppers, ect.
Gary
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Author: AmyE 297/198/160
Date: 07-31-03 11:25
here's what I do...its a kinda long process, but I always write the calorie per serv. in my food journal...I have a list in the back of all our 'regular' dinners.
I just take all the calories per can/pkg/ect to get the total amount of my dish (its usually 1500-2000 per dish. Then I measure how many cups is in it...this is the long part cuz I just scoop it out into another dish. But I only have to do it once. I also like to use receipes from this magazine I get called Light Cooking. It gives you the nutrition info for each one (as long as you follow it exactly)
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Author: Kate 235/158/140
Date: 07-31-03 12:08
Cooking light is a wonderful magazine. I have found many receipes that are very good.
Rhonda, I think it was you that had a post earlier about pasta. We eat pasta at least once a week. I invested in a kitchen scale and now I measure everything! As long as you stay within the serving size pasta isn't bad for you. As far as caserole goes, I do the same thing as Amy. It's a pain the first time but it just comes as second nature to me now.
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Author: Kate 235/158/140
Date: 07-31-03 12:10
Sorry, Rhonda. I got my posts mixed up. It wasn't you asking about pasta. It has been a LONG day!
:-))
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