Running the numbers
I use the tracker on this website, go to tools, the nutrition. I think it is pretty easy for most things. It doesn't have everything so I combine stuff when needed. Like taco meat you may need to do ground beef or turkey and salas ? to come up with something. You can add it foods also.
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fitday and the dailyplate ARE good for getting nutritional values of foods.
I use myfooddiary.com. if they don't have the nutritional values of a food, i look it up on the dailyplate.com, and then add the food and the nutritional data to my personalized database, called "my refrigerator." The values i add are permanent, so i don't need to look them up again. Plus, I can figure out the nutritional value of recipes, and then calculate the nutritional values per serving--like casseroles or homemade chili, for example. Most of the sites online have many of the foods from the more common resaurants too-- from taco bell to outback.
if you track all your food for the day/week, then fitday and myfooddiary will show you your nutritional totals fo rthe day/week. I think fitday is free. myfooddiary has a monthly fee.
The only drawback to these sites is that they aren't set up for bariatric eating or eating to compensate for malabsorption, so they will give you negative feedback in some cases for things like not enough calories or too much protein. My nut told me that there's a food diary site that actually IS for bariatric patients. Maybe it's OH?
I use myfooddiary.com. if they don't have the nutritional values of a food, i look it up on the dailyplate.com, and then add the food and the nutritional data to my personalized database, called "my refrigerator." The values i add are permanent, so i don't need to look them up again. Plus, I can figure out the nutritional value of recipes, and then calculate the nutritional values per serving--like casseroles or homemade chili, for example. Most of the sites online have many of the foods from the more common resaurants too-- from taco bell to outback.
if you track all your food for the day/week, then fitday and myfooddiary will show you your nutritional totals fo rthe day/week. I think fitday is free. myfooddiary has a monthly fee.
The only drawback to these sites is that they aren't set up for bariatric eating or eating to compensate for malabsorption, so they will give you negative feedback in some cases for things like not enough calories or too much protein. My nut told me that there's a food diary site that actually IS for bariatric patients. Maybe it's OH?