I've tried to use the food log on the site, but I can't seem to be able to find the right food options. I was wondering what you guys do when you can't find the food you're eating in the list of options given, because it's specific to your country/area. I have no idea which option of the ones listed for any given food is the most like what I'm eating and there's never really any 'general' option.
I've ended up not using it at all, and just writing up my foods in a personal food journal that I can take with me, but I was thinking that I should probably start counting calories and for that I need the site's help.
Any advice? Or is it just me? I'm from Sweden, if that matters.
Hi reetinkerbell,
I've the same problem because I think most of the foods available on the site are American brands. I just try to pick foods that have no brand names on the list (if there are any) or something roughly similar just to have an estimation of what I've consumed.
That's all I can recommend I'm afraid!
I've tried to do that too, but it gets all confusing 'cause I first have to translate from metric and then estimate and I end up not wanting to do it at all!
But since I want to be serious about this, I think maybe I should sit down and really learn how to use it.
But then, if there aren't any foods listed for something you've eaten, do you just not add it then or what?
Thanks. :)
You can get foods in gramms and kg. I just checked and all my stuff is in kg and metric. Maybe there is a setting in our profile or something? Cause I log my weight and everything in kilos.
We should probably all get into a habit of logging in foods that aren't available. I really want to find out the nutritional information on beef carpaccio so I think I'll post a query in the food part of the forum =)
I didn't know that. I just looked it up, and you have to contact the support to have it changed. :) Thanks. It should help me to get used to it all. :)
Wait, you can log in your own food?
Well I found this suggest a food thingy http://caloriecount.about.com/cc/suggest.php
But I wouldn't know enough about its contents to fill all that out!!
Wow. That's a lot of info. I mean, I get the need for it, but still. Is all of that even included on the packages?
No, you don't find everything on the package. The best you can do is copying all you can find on the package, most of the time is quite enough to get a good estimate of the prodcut's quality. If everyone of us from Europe posts something with the Suggest form, I think in not so long time we will have a good database. I think I'm one of the few people living in Switzerland, but you never know, many things might be the same (often with different names, brands like "Miko" in France are "Lusso" in Switzerland and so on). Let's try to find out and fill these forms!! At the beginning it's a bit annoying and long, but in the end it will be easier and easier, won't it?
Very true. Unfortunately, I have a really bad computer and it doesn't like the website, so it takes me an hour to add even one thing, because it has to "think" so much when it's on the adding food page. But I will certainly try.
2