A recipe calorie calculator for the food you cook.
Home cooking rarely matches a database entry. Build the dish once in Club 1000 Plus, ingredient by ingredient, and log it by the serving for as long as you cook it, with calories, protein, carbs and fat worked out for you.
Four steps, once per dish.
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Name it
In Nutrition, open Add food and choose Create a recipe. Give the dish the name you call it at home.
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Add the ingredients
Search the food library for each ingredient and enter the amount you used, as a portion, in grams or in ounces. The whole recipe's calories and macros add up as you go.
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Say how much it makes
Enter the servings it makes and, if you like, weigh the finished dish so a serving can be logged in grams.
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Log a serving
Save the recipe and it becomes one of your own foods. Log a serving, or any weight of it, at the time you ate it, today or any day after.
Built for family cooking
A dal, a stew, a tray of kibbeh or a pot of chili changes a little every time and never comes with a label. The recipe builder uses the same food library as everything else in Club 1000 Plus: USDA FoodData Central, packaged foods by barcode, and Indian and Lebanese dishes and ingredients found however you spell them. Foods you created yourself can be ingredients too.
Numbers that stay put
Each ingredient keeps the numbers it had when you added it, and each serving you log keeps the numbers it had when you logged it. Edit the recipe next month and only future servings change.
Worked example
The chickpea and spinach curry on the screen, with ingredients from USDA FoodData Central:
| Ingredient | Amount | kcal |
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| Chickpeas, canned, drained | 506 g | 703 |
| Tomatoes, crushed, canned | 400 g | 128 |
| Onions, raw | 150 g | 60 |
| Spinach, raw | 120 g | 28 |
| Olive oil | 27 g | 239 |
| Whole recipe | 1,203 g | 1,158 |
| Per serving (4) | about 300 g | 290 |
Calorie and macro figures are fitness estimates, not medical or dietary advice.
Recipe questions.
How do I count calories in a homemade recipe?
Add every ingredient with the amount you used, by weight if you can. Club 1000 Plus adds up the whole recipe, then divides it by the servings it makes. Weigh the finished dish too, and a serving can be logged in grams, which is the most accurate way when portions are uneven.
Why should I weigh the finished dish?
Cooking changes weight: water boils off a curry, rice soaks it up. The calories stay the same, so dividing them by the finished weight gives the true calories per gram of what you actually serve.
What happens if I change a recipe later?
The recipe is updated for the next time you log it. Servings you already logged keep the numbers they had, so last week's totals never change behind your back.
Can other members see my recipes?
No. Your recipes are your own foods, private to you, like the rest of your food log.
How many ingredients can a recipe have?
Up to 50. Any food in the library can be an ingredient, including foods and recipes you created yourself, except the recipe itself.
Cook it once. Log it for good.
Build your first recipe in Nutrition.