How to work out calories, fat, protein and carbs of these....

puddy

I have ordered, king prawn tandoori, one chapati and aloo gobi

To input it into my food diary log thing, it requires fat, protein and carbs as well as calories.

I was going to put 150 cals for the chapati, 300 for the tandoori and 350 for the aloo gobi, but what about the other stuff in it. a guestimate is the only way but i havent a clue

I normally have tandoori king prawn, cheese nan and saag panir, a huge reduction!!

flissh

puddy, I googled 'calories aloo gobi' and got ,indian food calorie content'

https://www.weightlossresources.co.uk/calories/calorie_content/indian_food.htm

Give it a go, it looks quite good

jenniewb

Personally? I'd leave it, have the night off! Unless your very calorie aware and carry scales with you, your likely to guestermate wrong and either spend time worrying overly about it or think you can eat more when your possibly not hungry as you underestimated what you ate, either way it ends up more trouble then its worth!

I would have it as a treat, you work hard to eat sensibly the rest of the week (or month or however long you chose to make it) and then one meal doesn't matter a whole lot. What matters is that you don't have take-outs every night (or meal!) and keep on track the rest of the time.

puddy

well i had a lot of capacity, so i dont mind overestimating, neither were very oily and the chapati was quite dry, so i think im ok. i dont want to get into a habit of not logging things, thats a slippery slope for me

Alcmene

Have you heard of Fitday? I highly recommend it.

puddy

it looks good, im using foodfocus.co.uk at the moment and have been doing it for 3 weeks so dont want to change to something unless i get really fed up with that site. the only blip is that for some reason it often gives the wrong calorie target, it seems to get confused by exercise, so you have to click on the exercise tab for that day, then click back into food log and it seems to right itself but its quite annoying.

its free as well and does all the fat/carb/protein thing so i'll use it for now. mind you i did notice that for raw mushrooms, it has that there are fat in them, which is obviously a mistake, hope its not that wrong for everything else!!