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Recipe calorie counter by hand: weigh each ingredient raw, add the calories, weigh the pot, divide by your bowl. Worked stew: 1,451 kcal pot, 311 kcal bowl.
Claire Donovan · · 10 min readCopy this food diary template: five columns, a sample day in grams and kcal, and how long to keep it. One cup of rice is 205 kcal cooked, 675 kcal raw.
Claire Donovan · · 10 min readChoosing a calorie counter app? Run 10 checks in 15 minutes: source of each number, grams, label error, speed, a 1,000 kcal goal test and breaks.
Claire Donovan · · 10 min readA restaurant menu calorie counter should use published numbers first, then gram estimates. Size gaps and unlisted extras, like 119 kcal of oil, are the misses.
Claire Donovan · · 11 min readHow to track calories: weigh the few foods that carry most of them. 10 g of olive oil is 88 kcal and 10 g of cooked rice is 13 kcal, so start with oil.
Claire Donovan · · 10 min read
