Calories in homemade food?

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Hi rainbow,

It will depend on the amount of flour, fish etc, so you'll need to calculate the exact calorie count of all the ingredients and don't forget to include any oil etc if you are frying rather than baking them. Then divide the total number of calories by the number of fishcakes to work out the calorie value of each fishcake.

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BitterAndTwisted

Too many variables so I understand your uncertainty. What kind of fish? In oil or brine? How much butter (if any) in the mashed potato? Baked or fried? Calorie-counting or a meal for a diabetic?

Perhaps for just one meal in a week it would be OK to throw caution to the wind and just enjoy what you eat and not worry about it. As long as you don't follow it up with a 400 gramme bar of Galaxy for pudding.

rainbowfairydust

BitterAndTwisted wrote: »

Too many variables so I understand your uncertainty. What kind of fish? In oil or brine? How much butter (if any) in the mashed potato? Baked or fried? Calorie-counting or a meal for a diabetic?

Perhaps for just one meal in a week it would be OK to throw caution to the wind and just enjoy what you eat and not worry about it. As long as you don't follow it up with a 400 gramme bar of Galaxy for pudding.

The fish was fresh, smoked hoki i think it might have been. Potato was mashed, a small dollop of flora light & dash of skimmed milk went in along with salt & pepper. Then lightly (very ) dusted with breadcrumbs & grilled ..

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rainbowfairydust wrote: »

The fish was fresh, smoked hoki i think it might have been. Potato was mashed, a small dollop of flora light & dash of skimmed milk went in along with salt & pepper. Then lightly (very ) dusted with breadcrumbs & grilled ..

The problem is that we can't help if we don't know the quanities of the ingredients. For example one small mashed potato will obviously have fewer calories than thee medium ones. I agree with B&T, just enjoy them and don't worry about the calories this time.

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rachbc

There are online calculcators where you type in the ingredient amoutns and it tell you per portion - I once worked it our for a cupcake then ran a way screaming so can't tell you the url sorry!

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rachbc wrote: »

There are online calculcators where you type in the ingredient amoutns and it tell you per portion - I once worked it our for a cupcake then ran a way screaming so can't tell you the url sorry!

Thanks for reminding me about those. :A There's a link to one in this thread:

Calories in homemade food?

I'll merge this thread with that one later to keep the suggestions together.

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rainbowfairydust

thanks for the replies everyone..