Running the numbers

Stacey N.
on 1/15/11 9:33 am - Chesapeake, VA
What is a good website to use to figure out the protein in my meals?
I am eating taco meat with refried beans topped with cheese and unflavored greek yogurt (my sourcream). Want to know the nutritional values of this.

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Price S.
on 1/15/11 9:42 am - Mills River, NC
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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Stacey N.
on 1/15/11 9:48 am - Chesapeake, VA
Price,
I went to Fitday.com and figured it out. It came up to almost 30g of protein!!! WOOHOO
I have had this 2 times today and a protein shake! I am rocking with over 96g of protein for the day!!! I am so excited!

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Lucycat
on 1/15/11 10:13 am - Lewiston, ID
Hi Stacey, thedailyplate.com is good for this kind of tracking.  I use it everyday. 
            
Stacey N.
on 1/15/11 10:21 am - Chesapeake, VA
Thank you

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sandijane3
on 1/15/11 10:41 am - Independence, MO
Stacey, I like Myfitnesspal.com because you can put your own goals in on how much protein, carbs and fat you want.  It has a million foods in its data base too.
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Lee ~
on 1/15/11 11:56 am - CA
 I too love myfitnesspal . com   I find that it has all of the foods and protein that I eat.

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kathymn
on 1/15/11 1:18 pm
Cool! I'm glad you asked this question, Stacey.  I'm going to check out those sites.
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RaggetyAnn
on 1/15/11 5:41 pm
VSG on 02/15/11 with
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?

RaggetyAnn  (I'm just a RaggetyAnn in a Barbie Doll world.)
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