Chef looking to cook healthy...

Hi there!

Just joined the site. Main focus is to lose about 10-15 pounds. 2nd focus is to reform my traditional recipes into something better... I'm a chef that cooks Chinese food but looking to do it healthy.  I often get my ingredients from Asian stores. They usually have their own nutrient labels and the brands are not searchable on this site. So I can only "enter new foods" to get it in the system. However, here's my dilemma: Usually each one of my recipe is comprised of many ingredients and each ingredient would have their own nutrition label... that's a lot of math just to figure out one dish, especially if I'm making for 15 servings at once!... 

Is there a way to do this: Enter my own nutrient info for each ingredient, save the ingredient, then, as I prep the food, I enter the amount for each saved ingredient that I use for my recipe, then, when I'm done, I hit a button, Calorie Count Plus would generate a brand new nutrient label based on all the info I entered. This way I can see how many calories I'm actually creating......

........ I hope I'm making sense here....... 

Any comment or suggestion is welcome. Thanks!

Consider your wishes granted, because CC already has a tool that does just the job. You'll find it under Food -> new recipe

Healthier Chinese food sounds delicious, do share any recipes you come up with and good luck with the project!

thanks for your reply, eveliina, I've tried that. but the problem is that it doesn't recognize (sometimes) 1/2 of the ingredients that i used for my recipe. therefore the nutrient label was incomplete. Those ingredients often are not searchable in the system but have their own nutrient labels on them. that's why I was hoping there's a new function where I can "save ingredients" with manually entered nutrient info. and when I build my recipe, I can say "use 1 tbsp of ABC ingredient" and it would calculate accordingly. 

What you could try is to make the items your using tagged items, which means you would have to enter each of them individually once.

The recipe tool does recognice the user item number of everything in its database, including tagged items that could be things you entered yourself.

you just have to put the item in as the number, which is part of the web address. look at the web address when your on the tagged items page and you will see it

sorry if this sounds confusing

that sounds like a good idea... I'll try that.

Thanks!