home made indian food calories

Does anyone else have a hard time figuring out calories in home made indian food?

not indian, but persian food yes :)

plus, any foods from restaurants that won't have info on the web - most indian, thai, chinese, japanese, mediteranean, etc. Makes it difficult.

I have a lot of trouble finding nutrition info on the food I normally eat at home as well. I try to use the recipe analyzer that CC has, but sometimes it won't recognize very recognizable food, like "curry powder" or "radish" or "turnip." It's really annoying. When this happens, I end up going to  http://www.thedailyplate.com in order to find the caloric intake of my food or an equivalent just because they seem to have a lot more data, and also share recipes that users put in. Not to undermine CC or anything :/

This is the story of my life right now, because I am actually spending about half my time in India on business. I usually just try to err on the side of caution when I estimate the calories in restaurant meals...

If you're making the food yourself, though, you should be able to calculate your calories using the recipe tool. The biggest culprits are probably going to be rice, oil or ghee, and high-fat dairy like cream or paneer.  Chickpeas and potatoes can bump up the calories too.

 

thanks! 

 i dont use much oil and hardly ever use ghee, so thats def a good thing.  we have Diwali (kinda like an indian christmas) coming up this week, so its going to be hard trying to keep away from all those sweets and fried foods!

I'm going to attempt to put some recipes together of indian foods i already make,  with calories counts...should take me a while but while probably be better for me in the long run.

 

Hey! i know what u mean about sweets and fried foods...try drink lots of water-especially in themorning.  Stay away from salt as much as possible.  Chappathis and Rotis are very healthy-stick to a maximum number of 2 with lots of curries-especially the vegetables..and if u r a non-vegetarian, have more meats than the gravy-which are usually loaded with creams/milk fat, oil, and nuts (the tastier ones)...also as someone earlier said, keep away from potatoes-that means samosas, and bajis....

Something i realized that we all can do is skimp on a meal if u know the next one is gonna be big-like have oatmeal in the morning or cereal-to compensate ur calories.  Another thing i do-is choose a few of the sweets that i LOVe and cant go without tasting (gulab jamuns and milk sweets)-and split it with my husband or my son-that way i get to taste it but i wont have the whole thing.  Lst but not least-dont gobble everything down, eat slowly, stay away from the buffet tables...focus more on socializing and assuring yourself that you look great-that will help you stay away from too much food...

good luck...and happy diwali

Happy Diwali!!! (Well on friday)

I figure home made food is so much healthier then outside food anyways so i count my calories when making indian food but not to the dot.

I buy roti from the indian store which already has the calories on the pack. (1 roti 200 calories!) and then just try to stick to veggies instead of meat and no ghee! Just use Pam spray.

I sure could use a gulab jamun right now though!