My mom and I made some Toll House Chocolate Chip cookies over the weekend (using the recipe on the choc chip bag), and I am trying to figure out the calorie value.

On here, when you look at several of the items listed under chocolate chip cookies (from recipe, both the made with butter and the made with margarine listings), it says "Good Points: No Sugar". And sure enough it does not have the sugar listed. I KNOW there is lots, believe me I put it in!

Do you think the calorie values are still accurate even though the sugar is not included?

Is there a place to add new foods for consideration to the food database (not just tagged items, but add food to the search list that everyone sees)? I'd like to add these cookies correctly with the sugar value.

Thanks!

It probably isn't very accurate since sugar has calories in it...

But you can add it yourself by going to your food log and to the right it says add it here or something.

I have to do it all the time :)

According to my calculations, if you added all the ingredients on the back of the bag the TOTAL for everything comes to:

Without Nuts: 4685 calories

With Nuts: 5470 calories

So just divide that by the number of cookies you got out of the recipe total and you have your calorie count per cookie! 

I believe this recipe is the same as the one on the back of the bag. Keep in mind that they claim this recipe makes 48 cookies, but I usually only get 24 out of it, and I think that's normal. So, I put two servings in my food log for each cookie.

Geek alert

I don't use the recipe thingy on here at all, it seems really hit and miss to me. I simply use the nutritional values listed on the bags of everything, and for stuff that doesn't have it like eggs, I use the CC info, and multiply each item by amount in recipe. Then I add them all up to get a recipe total, and divide by the number of portion the recipe made to get values for each portion. I have a spreadsheet that contains about 30 recipes so far of ones I like to make.

It's way more accurate but I know this amount of "bookeeping" isn't for everyone!

i don't know, but damn i want some chocolate cookies now.

Today is National Chocolate Chip day!  Go ahead and have a cookie - I did!