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Post by compeateropeator on Jun 14, 2019 18:58:30 GMT
I am not sure if people can help me but I thought I would ask.
I would like to bake some sugar cookies for my nephews 6th grade graduation. I would like my niece to be able to have a couple, but I need to know how many carbs there are so they can adjust her insulin. I am hoping to find something where I plug in the recipes and it tells me the carbs per serving. Then I can measure out exact servings for her. Is this possible and if so which calculators do you like? Thanks.
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Post by roundtwo on Jun 14, 2019 19:03:28 GMT
My fitness pal will do that. I scan the barcode of the ingredients I am using, adjust the amounts and it tells me the nutrient value of carbs, fats, sugars, vitamins, etc.
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Post by Basket1lady on Jun 14, 2019 19:31:42 GMT
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Post by compeateropeator on Jun 14, 2019 21:15:43 GMT
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Post by dewryce on Jun 14, 2019 22:34:24 GMT
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Post by compeateropeator on Jun 14, 2019 22:35:12 GMT
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Post by pattyraindrops on Jun 14, 2019 23:29:55 GMT
I usually google "nutrition calculator" and see what comes up.
Whatever you use, double check the numbers. I've found, especially in my fitness pal, the numbers can be way off - like it might say a pound of butter is 9 calories.
Most of the time anymore because of that then I just get the numbers off the ingredients myself add them together and divide them by how many servings if something doesn't seem right. Since it is just sugar cookies and just carbs it won't be a big deal. You won't need to count salt, baking soda/powder, extract, coloring, butter.
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Post by compeateropeator on Jun 15, 2019 0:35:23 GMT
I usually google "nutrition calculator" and see what comes up. Whatever you use, double check the numbers. I've found, especially in my fitness pal, the numbers can be way off - like it might say a pound of butter is 9 calories. Most of the time anymore because of that then I just get the numbers off the ingredients myself add them together and divide them by how many servings if something doesn't seem right. Since it is just sugar cookies and just carbs it won't be a big deal. You won't need to count salt, baking soda/powder, extract, coloring, butter. Thanks for the tips. |
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Post by Basket1lady on Jun 15, 2019 4:22:48 GMT
I usually google "nutrition calculator" and see what comes up. Whatever you use, double check the numbers. I've found, especially in my fitness pal, the numbers can be way off - like it might say a pound of butter is 9 calories. Most of the time anymore because of that then I just get the numbers off the ingredients myself add them together and divide them by how many servings if something doesn't seem right. Since it is just sugar cookies and just carbs it won't be a big deal. You won't need to count salt, baking soda/powder, extract, coloring, butter. Hmmm... never had that happen. One of the things that I like about SparkPeople is that you can input your quantities. So if there are 100 calories in X food, I use 2 tablespoons in the recipe, and the recipe serves 4, it figures all of that out. |
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Post by pattyraindrops on Jun 15, 2019 12:37:15 GMT
I usually google "nutrition calculator" and see what comes up. Whatever you use, double check the numbers. I've found, especially in my fitness pal, the numbers can be way off - like it might say a pound of butter is 9 calories. Most of the time anymore because of that then I just get the numbers off the ingredients myself add them together and divide them by how many servings if something doesn't seem right. Since it is just sugar cookies and just carbs it won't be a big deal. You won't need to count salt, baking soda/powder, extract, coloring, butter. Hmmm... never had that happen. One of the things that I like about SparkPeople is that you can input your quantities. So if there are 100 calories in X food, I use 2 tablespoons in the recipe, and the recipe serves 4, it figures all of that out. Yes, several calculators will do that and it is really nice. I didn't use to have as much incorrect numbers as I have had the last couple of years though I've wondered if I just never noticed before and then once I caught it it was much easier to notice since most of the time it isn't totally obvious like the butter example I gave. I don't know if it is people just not understanding how to do it when they put it in or putting it in with the only things they care about or what. For example I pulled up a box of tuna salad and crackers. If you look at the box there was nutrition info for the salad and more info for the crackers, however who ever had entered the info only put in the nutrition info for the salad and not the crackers even though the title included the crackers and this was done several times - none of the entries included both salad and crackers even though the titles gave no indication of that. This has been a problem with every site I have used though some have done it more than others. It's really frustrating. One good thing with the OP is that sugar cookies are made with simple ingredients which are very common that are less likely to have the problem |
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