u cant, i tried but it’s just messy so i started making my own food and chat gpt helped me with making meals that fit my macros i highly suggest using AI to make your meals
Pixel_hawk
Just do your best to guesstimate. It can get stressful to be too granular. Be grateful that you have her cooking for now.
Pinkacello
Ask her what’s in it, look at how much was made, then approx how much you had (1.5 cups, etc.) You can use AI to determine calories with that info – that’s going to be the easiest. Or calculate it yourself based on portion.
sinergyist
Why don’t you cook with her, or help her during the process?
PapaJuja
Gonna be real here: eat your mom’s food and don’t worry so much about it.
Just track what you make. Life it far too short to focus on how many calories is in your mother’s cooking.
Sasquatchamunk
Most accurate would be asking for the recipe and inputting it into your calorie tracker and estimating the calories yourself. Family cooking doesn’t follow an exact recipe every time, I know, but it’s an option.
Another option is if you know what the dish is or can at least describe it, I often find there’s something that looks comparable in LoseIt’s database (my calorie tracker of choice). Use your best judgment (if you see something and think “whoa that’s SUPER low-cal!!” it’s probably too good to be true lol) and err on overestimating rather than under. It’s not perfect, but it’ll be better than nothing.
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u cant, i tried but it’s just messy so i started making my own food and chat gpt helped me with making meals that fit my macros i highly suggest using AI to make your meals
Just do your best to guesstimate. It can get stressful to be too granular. Be grateful that you have her cooking for now.
Ask her what’s in it, look at how much was made, then approx how much you had (1.5 cups, etc.) You can use AI to determine calories with that info – that’s going to be the easiest. Or calculate it yourself based on portion.
Why don’t you cook with her, or help her during the process?
Gonna be real here: eat your mom’s food and don’t worry so much about it.
Just track what you make. Life it far too short to focus on how many calories is in your mother’s cooking.
Most accurate would be asking for the recipe and inputting it into your calorie tracker and estimating the calories yourself. Family cooking doesn’t follow an exact recipe every time, I know, but it’s an option.
Another option is if you know what the dish is or can at least describe it, I often find there’s something that looks comparable in LoseIt’s database (my calorie tracker of choice). Use your best judgment (if you see something and think “whoa that’s SUPER low-cal!!” it’s probably too good to be true lol) and err on overestimating rather than under. It’s not perfect, but it’ll be better than nothing.
I say about 350 calories