johnmarth's Journal, 20 October 2014

Wow! That is a lot of work! I use a website called caloriecount(dot)about(dot)com. They have a recipe nutritional analyzer. You enter all the ingredients and the number of servings and it will give you the nutritional information. It even gives the recipe a grade (A, A-, B, B+, etc) to give you an idea of how healthy it is. I have put some of my homemade soups and casseroles in there, then when I get the info I enter it into the FS food database so I can find it when I want to log my meals. Hope this helps! 

i did find it a lot of work it took 2 hours to cook and about 30 minutes to calculate the calories per cup but knowing how many calories youre eating gives you peace of mind that your not going off your diet. and eliminating the oil really helped in cutting down the calories, i felt that they were low calorie recipes because they were only 90 and 105 calories per cup which i thought was really good, first i had to measure the radius and height of the contents of the pots, the used piexradius squared to find the volume in cubic inches for both recipes then i used an online cubic inches converter to cups. when i found the total cups i divided the total calories of all the ingredients by the total cups and got a calorie per cup. and it was delicious even better than being cooked with oil, when you start eating low fat food tastes even better, it was all boiled in water without vegetable oil and only 1 tsp of sugar in the curry and 2 tsp of sugar in the chop suey no oil and i cut all the fat off the chicken breasts. 

thanks for the recommendation of the website ill take a look although i do like doing geometry math. i found the recipes to be very filling i ate one cup of the thai red curry which is only 105 calories with 1/2 c of rice which is 100 a total of 205 calories you can eat double this amount for breakfast, lunch and dinner and still only consume 1200 calories in a day it was a great recipe without the oil and with all the healthy veggies.