Vegitarian Chili/Recipe analyzer

I just put in the Vegitarian Chili I made last night and while it is very low fat it was logged as having over 500 calories per serving and that was even after I increased the servings from 6 to 12!  I'm not really sure that can be acurate BUT if it is I need to pair this w/ something low cal to be able to eat it.  soooo what is a reasonable serving size of chili and what should you eat w/ it to fill you up?

http://www.calorie-count.com/recipe/55948.htm l

that's the link to the recipe.  it get's an A, but it's so high calorie!!!!

I think I know why your calories are way off.  I have put beans in a recipe before and it assumes that you are using the dried beans before you cook them.  So, when you say 32 ounces of black beans, and 32 ounces of great northern beans, it thinks you are using 4 pounds of dried beans.  When they are cooked and have liquid added, they weigh more.  What tipped me off was that the fiber for each serving was over 28 grams!  If you know how to use the brackets [] for the recipe analyzer I would suggest doing that.  Search for the kind of beans you use in the recipe in the food database.  For example, this is the URL for the food database listing of Bush's Black beans, canned:

http://www.calorie-count.com/calories/item/95047.html

Then, in your recipe, after this line:

32 oz. black beans [95047]

put the number in brackets that is at the end of the URL for the food database item. 

If you need any more help with the recipe analyzer, check out some of the posts in the calorie-count forum.  They might be better at explaining it than me. 

If I enter a recipe, and the calories seem way off, I will click on each individual item after it is analyzed to see what the analzyer came up with.    Sometimes it picks up the wrong item - or uses it in another form.  I'm sure if you edit the recipe and make sure the beans it is using are the canned kind, your calories will be much lower.

I just entered your same recipe exactly (used copy & paste) but used brackets to identify the beans as canned.  For 12 servings, it came to 163 calories per serving.  If you change it to 6 servings, it's 326 calories per serving.  So, the recipe is in fact, very healthy and very low calorie!  You can let me know if you have any questions about how to use the recipe analyzer.  I always enter everything that I make for my family so I can get the most accurate calorie count that I can.

Great explaining abloomfield.  I'm the same way, I always check everything and noticed that bean problem.