homemade meals calorie split

[andi7997]

Wondering how to correctly obtain the calories for 1 serving of a homemade meal, such as a salad. I entered all the ingredients I created the salad with estimating how much I included as I don't measure. I added this in as a "meal" but saw no way of adding just 1 serving, in calories, from this salad into my day's allotment. I have no idea how many calories an individual serving would be. Please help! I feel like I'm drowning as most things we eat are homemade and lots of different veggies.

[Joy_]

I too make a lot of homemade meals and find the Fitbit App can be frustrating. Most of the foods seem to be based on restaurant meals. I'm pretty sure that if you make a recipe a meal, you will be able to adjust your serving size to reflect the amount you are eating. Of course this will be an estimate, but your weight should reflect if you are on the right track. I also often check the calories in either MyFitnessPal or CalorieKing. Often, the Fitbit calories have been way off, sadly. Good luck to you!

[SunsetRunner]

I also cook a lot of homemade meals and I google the amount of calories in each ingredient or use the nutritional information on the pasta for example , add them all together and the divide it into how many portions I have made. I then log it as a new food in fitbit.

Its a bit of a long process but I work on a 2 week menu so will only have to do this 14 times then it will be easy.

Hope this helps, good luck. x

[CarolynH07]

I do homemade meals, too, and finding the right calories can be tough.  Though if I work from a recpe I've found someplace, they often have nutritional info.  sometimes I guesstimate as when I try to be precise, it takes too long and gets too frustrating.  So I often pick something in the middle range of the calories shown and hope that's close enough.  I guess I'll soon see if that's good enough.

[Raviv]

I weight the whole amount I made (less the dish, of course) and then weight how much I eat.

If the whole thing is 273g and I eat 53g, then I eat 53/200g or .194 of the whole thing.