Thanks to my brother Charlie (www.backtothefridge.com) who posted on Megan’s site today (www.megansmunchies.blogspot.com) he made a recipe our Dad made growing up (Pumpkin chocolate chip bread) and used a new tool to figure out the calories that I never used before. It’s a recipe analysis where you can put all the ingredients used in a recipe and put in the servings and it will make a little nutritional label for you. I’ve had a lot of fun playing around with it tonight! For example, if I am making my salsa chicken I would add 4 ounces of chicken, 1 cup of salsa and 1/2 cup brown rice, 1 ounce cheese and 1/4 cup black beans. Here is what it would come up with:
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Serving Size 474 g |
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Amount Per Serving |
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Calories 651 |
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% Daily Value* |
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Total Fat 19.5g 30% |
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Saturated Fat 8.7g 43% |
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Cholesterol 131mg 44% |
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Sodium 1837mg 77% |
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Total Carbohydrates 65.0g 22% |
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Dietary Fiber 12.3g 49% |
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Sugars 9.1g |
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Protein 56.1g |
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Nutrition Grade A- |
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* Based on a 2000 calorie diet |
Did you see on the bottom that my nutrition grade is A-! Not bad. This is a great meal for dinner! You can also tweak a recipe before you make it, to lessen the calories or nutrition. For example, this is high in sodium, so I could change up the recipe to alter any nutritional value I want. If I see it has too much saturated fat, I can change it up by lessening an ingredient or just taking it out altogether. Thanks Charlie, for the information, I will use this site a lot to figure out the calories in the foods I eat!
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