How do you count calories/ nutrients while cooking?!
Question: When you are cooking a homemade meal, made from various ingredients (for example, green bean casserole), how do you count the calories/ fat/ carbohydrates/etc.? Do you just add up the numbers from the nutrition label for every food item you include in your recipe(i.e, milk, green beans, soup, onions)? Or does the mixing of the ingredients/heat from the cooking itself change anything? If so, what's the way you then calculate the numbers?
Answers: When you are cooking a homemade meal, made from various ingredients (for example, green bean casserole), how do you count the calories/ fat/ carbohydrates/etc.? Do you just add up the numbers from the nutrition label for every food item you include in your recipe(i.e, milk, green beans, soup, onions)? Or does the mixing of the ingredients/heat from the cooking itself change anything? If so, what's the way you then calculate the numbers?
calorieking.com... measure your ingredients and then use calorieking to figure out how much each ingredient is worth. oz/grams and fl. oz are the standard metrics used by calorieking. Also, the heating process of cooking food adds about 10-20% caloric value to the food. This is due to the kinetics of heating molecules increasing their potential energy.
You can either do that, or just look at/estimate the portions of each you are using. Since everything stays in while you are cooking and nothing flies away, the amount of calories in it dont change. You can google to see how many portions of what food type each thing you're using in your meal are (print them out for later reference) and do your calculations! You also might wanna learn about the exchange rules in nutrition. Like 125 ml of milk = 2 table spoons of yoghurt = 2 scoops of light ice cream etc. or 30 grams of meat (any type except for shrimp and high cholesterol see food) = 30 grams of cheese etc. 1 slice of wheat bread = 2 table spoons of rice + 1 tea spoon of oil... Knowing all these helps a lot. Just google them and you'll find them, or there are books you could find on nutrition that have these :) hope that helps.
That would be hard I think I would just cut out the fatty foods and eat what you want and to lose it just exercise dance alot that Will keep you in shape good luck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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