Problem with entering recipe

On the Malt-O-Meal box there is a recipe for "Magic Muffins".  While they were in the oven I tried to enter the ingredients in a new recipe analyzer. BUT- even though Malt-O-Meal is in the Calorie Count database the recipe analyzer doesn't recognize it.  I even tried copying and pasting its name from the regular Food Detail section to no avail.  Does anyone know how to get around this?  It has come up before and you can't just leave out integral ingredients from an analysis.  Thanks, ken.

Oh, boy, I had this problem with a chicken recipe - it wouldn't recognize chicken breasts - go figure. You'll get a little message next to the malt-o-meal saying why it wouldn't recognize it- with my chicken recipe, I discovered it wasn't recognizing the amount, so I entered it in grams - for some reason, then it recognized it. Don't know if that helps.

I am not familiar with malt-o-meal - is there a reasonable substitute (similar in nutritional content) that you could substitute in the analyzer, just so that it properly calculates the nutritional content? Might be a way to fake it out.

you need to enter the item number found in the url

I am not sure exactly which malt-o-meal you refer to but for example let's say it is the plain: http://caloriecount.about.com/calories-malt-o -meal-plain-dry-i8116

in recipe analyzer you would enter:

1 cup malt-o-meal [8116]

Hope this helps

Thank you!  That did it.  It's very picky though, isn't it?  Still wouldn't work without brackets around the number.  Again, thanks.

ken

thanks.  check out kdh1221's answer.  that works perfectly.

ken