Calculating Calories on Meals

[michaelearth]

How do you guys calculate the amount calories in a homemade dish? For example my parents will sometimes cook a meal and I'm just lost to how many calories are in it.

Also its not really possible to have my mom or whoever makes it record all ingredients and their caloric content.

Any suggestions?

[Paxiled]

Also remember that calories aren't the standard for weight maintenance -- how well food is metabolized is.  A low calorie meal that turns right into sugar or that you don't digest well will be worse than a higher calorie meal you digest easily and doesn't metabolize right into sugar.  

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[gymdandee]

Write down all of the ingredients of the homemade dish. Include the amount of each individual ingredient. For example, if you were making spaghetti with meat sauce, your list may include 6 cups spaghetti, 12 oz. tomato sauce and 1 lb. ground turkey breast.
Look up the calorie content of each of the ingredients in your homemade dish. For example, according to USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference, 6 cups spaghetti, 12 oz. tomato sauce and 1 lb. ground turkey breast have 1,319 calories, 88 calories and 681 calories respectively.
Add the calories of all of the ingredients together. For example, 6 cups spaghetti, 12 oz. tomato sauce and 1 lb. ground turkey breast have a total of 2088 calories.
Divide the total calories of your homemade dish by its number of servings to determine the amount of calories in each serving. For example, if your spaghetti dish serves six people, divide 2088 calories by six, to arrive at the product of 348 calories per serving.

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