Does anyone know how to count how many calories are in a meal you prepare from scratch? For example, I made spaghetti sauce tonight with tomatoe sauce, tomato paste, diced tomatoes, ground beef, etc. How do you know how many calories actually make it onto your plate after all that? (I know this dish isn't the healthiest, but there are some nights I just want to please the whole family, not just me and Dave and then cook for the boys also.)
But by dinner I had about 510 calories left. I may have gone over with that meal.
If you know the amount of calories of everything that went into it it should be just addition right? even ground beef has calories on the label I think. So you just add up everything that goes into it and then make a rough estimate of the portion size...like if you ate 1/4 of what you made then you divide the total by 4. it can be a lot of work but it's an eye opener sometimes too to see what you're really eating. BTW, try ground turkey, it's lower in calories. I don't use it much but I'm trying it this week.
ReplyDeleteThanks! I do use ground turkey actually. All the time. In fact I'm using it tonight in a meal called crunchy taco salad. I was going to post the recipe tonight too. It's good. I've used ground turkey before in spaghetti sauce and it's too tough to chew for spaghetti in my opinion. I use ground turkey in sloppy joes, this taco salad meal. I can't remember what else right now. I've also been known to use ground bison. Which is leaner and fewer calories as well. I've used that in spaghetti and there is no difference. It's not good for tacos or meatloaf though. Too tough.
ReplyDeleteIf you do ground turkey use lean ground turkey breast. It's the best one for you.
Anyway, thanks for the help.
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