Anyone know of a site or tool that convert adds up caloric total of a recipe?

I have a lot of cook books.  I am not shy with math, but there has to be a better way than the one I used the other day.  I made a big big pot of mixed brown beans.  I used several ingredients (Dry Navy beans, dry pinto beans, diced canned tomatoes, 1 can tomato sauce, molassas, brown sugar, onions, and bacon).  I measured each, and using this site and my "Salter Nutri Scale" figured out the caloric values of each ingredient as I put it into the mix to cook.  Then when it was done baking I weighed the end result (7.5 kilograms) and took the total values for each of the catagories (calories, carbs, proteins, fat, fibre, etc...) and did the math to get a value per 100 gram serving.  *see below  What I am wondering, is if there is a place on the web where one can simply type in the ingredients and the weights used, and get a total value, and a per 100 g serving value?  Any help would be appreciated.  I mean I can do this over and over for each recipie but it is time consuming, and as we all know if it becomes too dificult, we simply will stop doing it after time, and revert to what comes naturally (laziness).  I don't want to stop using my old recipies and cook books, and have to invest money in a bunch of new ones. 

Home Made Navy Brown Beans
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Calories             |   145 cal
Fat                      |   1.5 g
Sodium              |   118 mg
Carbohydrates  |   26.5 g
Fibre                  |   2.6 g
Protein              |   4 g

Values are calculated based on ingredients
put in and total weight of end product.

The above values are for 100 grams, or about
1/2 cup serving.

if you hover your mouse over foods, there will be a link with the name "new recipe" in the drop down menu.  if you click that, it will take to the site's recipe analyzer.  will figure everything up for you.  sometimes, it will give you a yellow triangle saying it couldn't analyze something.  if you search for that ingredient alone, you can see how the site measures it and that could be the problem.  sometimes it just doesn't recognize the item, but you can use the item number from the address bar.

eg. - http://caloriecount.about.com/calories-splend a-brown-sugar-blend-i101169.  the number for this item is 101169 and could be entered in the recipe as: 1 cup [101169] Splenda/Brown Sugar Blend

hope this helps!!!

edit: if you do have to look up an item, you may want to open a new browser with the CC website.  If you leave the page with your recipe, it will all disappear and you will have to start over!!

What about using the recipe evaluator here on CC? Under foods-then new recipe-and then type it all in there. Sometimes it might not be exact as what your using but I have played around with it and gotten right on the mark. I love it. Then you can even save it for future ref later if you make it again.

Thanks, I will try that!

Perfect

See this entry.  Try it too, it can be even better calorie wise if you use low fat cottage cheese and low fat parmesan.

http://caloriecount.about.com/green-bean-mous aka-recipe-r160538

Grumpy

Another good tip:  IF you find a recipe on line,(I fins a lot on Martha Stewart's site.) you can copy and paste, and save yourself a lot of typing!

Fitday.com also does whole recipes.       http://fitday.com/

A good site to "tool around" with large quantities, change the serving sizes (for instance, just as you'd like to start with your whole large recipe and convert to 100 gram serving sizes) is recipezaar.com.  Their tool is exactly what you're looking for.  The tool on this site (new recipe) is great, but it doesn't sound like it'll let you manipulate it in just the way you want.  Good luck!

V.

Original Post by monarch777:

Fitday.com also does whole recipes.       http://fitday.com/

Really how? I use that site, but haven't found the option to do it.

UD