Wish the log had more Canadian foods!

There are quite a few, but some things are just really different.

For example, the box of Kashi Go Lean Crunch I buy here in Canada is 230 calories/cup. The log here (based on the US box, presumably) says 190 calories/cup. 

And we have a lot of different Lean Cuisine flavours here that aren't in the logs. I love the Mango Curry Chicken bowl, and the Basil Salmon Orzo, but can I find them here? Grrrr.

And then trying to figure out ml-oz conversion is sometimes a pain. 

Sorry, just ranting.  :)

In a related question, how do I keep the custom foods that I create using the form? If it's being saved, I can't figure out where to find it next time I eat that!

 

 

If you want to save your custom foods, you just need to tag them - then to add them again you go to your tagged items and you can add them from there. It's a good place to keep foods that you use a lot but which aren't in the database...

Heh, I know what you mean! Although I'm not from Canada (I'm from Malaysia) I can totally relate because the cuisine here can/is so different from those in the US and we don't have nearly enough low calorie options available here (thru import) compared to the US. The local cuisine here is 90% engulfed in oil, ghee and coconut milk and without proper nutritional information guides here, I shudder to think all the insane amounts of fat (unhealthy or otherwise) I'm consuming!

I suppose what *could* work is finding the closest thing you can in the database to what you ate.  

Thanks for the tip, kajikit!

And yes, paganini, it's frustrating! I don't obsess over every calorie and log religiously, but it's hard to find some aspect of accuracy when you're outside the US! :)

feydruss, I read on the Kashi website that the formula of their cereal is the same in the US and in Canada. It's just that in Canada, certain type of carb is not considered as "fiber" as it is in US - so they are added on to the total cal in Canada. That's why it's higher in Canada. Either way, you're basically eating the same thing. 40cal difference is not a huge deal, so I just go with what they have on CC. Hehe:)

Its just CCs way of trying to give you kooky northerners a hint....

Huh...40 cal difference is not a huge deal....try doing that over 6 food items a day.

I just started entering everything "Canadian" that varied from the U.S. posted values in a custom form, although the downside of that is you can't divide the serving side easily, as can be done with a lot of the pre-entered foods.

Try adding a 1/2 portion of something custom means you either create a quickie 1/2 portion size in custom using calories only, and forgo having CC: add in nutritional info, or slogging through doing the math yourself, and saving it as a variant (or losing your original info, as I found from experience).

It would be so nice for CC: to take your custom entries and simply let you multiply or divide serving sizes or set it to a specific oz/grams serving size.

Although I have a counter-argument, the same one to when I complain about not being able to quickly add multiple items that I eat regularly (without having to group them all together into "meal a", "meal b", etc.) - which is, if it was that quick and easy to add them, I might be tempted to quickly eat them also. Being more mindful of the present, as the Buddhists say, makes one think more about what's about to be jammed down one's gullet.

Don't get me wrong, it's not that "if not for CC:'s slowness, I'd be binging", but every little bit of drumming home the caloric result of one's choices helps, at least in my case.

 

 

Oh me too!
And I wish they sold Fiber One products in Canada.
I always get told to eat Fiber One cereal and Fiber One bars for a good source of fiber.
Yet I can't really fly to America and buy some and then fly back to Canada to eat them.

Original Post by strawberry-dolly:

Oh me too!
And I wish they sold Fiber One products in Canada.
I always get told to eat Fiber One cereal and Fiber One bars for a good source of fiber.
Yet I can't really fly to America and buy some and then fly back to Canada to eat them.

Really? I guess you just can't get the cereal in your city, 'cause I live in Vancouver and I always see Fibre 1 at many supermarkets.

Original Post by jeudie:

Original Post by strawberry-dolly:

Oh me too!
And I wish they sold Fiber One products in Canada.
I always get told to eat Fiber One cereal and Fiber One bars for a good source of fiber.
Yet I can't really fly to America and buy some and then fly back to Canada to eat them.

Really? I guess you just can't get the cereal in your city, 'cause I live in Vancouver and I always see Fibre 1 at many supermarkets.

 

Aww!
Because one time I asked one of the workers where the Fiber One stuff was.
And they looked at me strangely LOL

ya i had the same prob lol im from canada and my cheerios had 10 less cals then what they said

Yes, I can get Fibre (hehehe) One cereal here in Alberta. But whenever I go to the US, I bring back a suitcase full of F1 granola bars. My husband and I love the chocolate chip ones. :)

IIIIIIIIII agree!!!! That's part of my problem when i go to log my food in! I can never find what i've eaten, so i have to chose the thing that's closest in cals!

Btw Feydruss: I live in Calgary!!!! That's so cool!

Ha ha, I did that for a while wannabe... now, I've just started to add some of my favourites on my own. Sooner or later I'll be closer to accurate. LOL.

FIBER 1 bars are now being sold in Canada!! I saw them at Sobeys today and bought two boxes!

However, they only have 5g of fiber each, whereas the USA bars have 9g.