using the log to track your calories

I'm a new user (today) and I'm trying o use the food journal to track my calories. I went to dinner at a resturant and I found some of the things I had for dinner on the list of foods and some were not. Also, with some of the dishes I had less to eat than the minimum selection. ie... I had about 1/4 portion and 1 serving was the lowest ammount I was allowed to choose. What do I do to correct that? How do I put in foods that I can't find on the list?

I found a book that I use for eating out that seems to have more selections than this site.  It's the 6th edition of The Fat Counter and is paperback.   To log your foods you can either click the add to log button and then where it says serving or portion (I don't remember exactly which one it says) put in .25 for 1/4, .5 for half, or if you are real piggy you can multiply your serving (eg 2.5 if you eat an entire bag of popcorn by yourself).  The other way to add them, if you can't find the item that you ate, is by adding the information yourself.  Click the add it now bar and enter as much info as you can.  If you don't have nutrition information then the item will not get a grade but at least you can keep up with the calories.  I used to enter all the items for my tossed salads but considering that I eat 2 a day I now just add as tossed salad and that salad's calories.  I know that it's an A grade because all the ingredients are A's.  Always feel free to ask us questions, too.  You can shoot me an email here anytime.

Betsy

I found that I could put in a portion for the steak serving, but with the rice it would not allow me to do that. I could just add it myself though, using the information for a full portion and doing the math myself. I'll have to find that book. I also use the USDA website a lot, but it only has the biggest chain resturents in it.

Sue