How Do You Count Calories In Homemade Food?
Many people need to regulate their caloric intake, but when making recipes at home, that can be difficult if you do not know the proper method of counting calories or the number of calories in each ingredient and/or dish. See Resources below for a link to the USDA’s database of calories and nutrients in thousands of raw, processed, and prepared foods. You will need this information to determine the number of calories in your homemade food. On a piece of paper, write down all of the ingredients and their amounts in your recipe. For instance if you are making two peanut butter sandwiches you would write down: “Four slices of white bread, 4 tablespoons of creamy peanut butter.” Look up each of the foods in the database. If you are using the USDA’s website, type in the name of the food in the search box, then select the option from the list that matches your food. For instance, typing “peanut butter” into the box will return results such as “peanut butter cookies,” “peanut butter” and “pea
