Counting calories
I have been trying to find a good way to track the calories in homemade meals. This has been a process of trial and error. If you have an iPhone or iPod Touch, the app LoseIt! Is the most valuable tool. I liked SparkPeople for awhile until I discovered this app.
It is fantastic, and has been the number one app in the Health category for over a year now. And it’s free. But if you don’t have either of those, SparkPeople is pretty good.
Whenever I cook things from scratch I just manually add in everything that the recipe asked for. Don’t know if it will end up being the same, but I usually cook with few ingredients so it comes out similar enough. Another thing you can do is Google the recipe you are using like “Calories Mashed Potatoes” or something to that affect. I realize that was a bad example, sorry. I know there is another website you can search for the calorie content of various foods but I don’t recall it. I’m sure it would be easy to find in a search engine as well.
If you want to find low fat versions of recipes, Hungry-Girl.com has some good ones, and that way you will know that what you are making is below 300 calories per serving.
The nice thing about calorie counting is that you can modify it however it works for you, and there are so many great tools available to keep track of them.