I've been trying to put my favorite chili recipe on FitDay to see if there is any way possible to make it, and more importantly be able to eat some of it, while on Atkins.
One trouble is I have never tried to figure out how many servings the recipe makes...........it makes a lot (even before I cut my appetite way down).
Another is that FitDay keeps changing the calculations when I enter them....adding a decimal where it doesn't belong for instance.
I managed to get a custom recipe totaled and it looks like I have the following totals for 1/10 of a serving....(I used 1 serving for the measure of the entire recipe since I have no idea where else to start).
Anyways, one-tenth is probably still more than I would eat but it seems to have a great many more carbs than I have been consuming, probably due to the two large cans of tomatoes, one large can of tomato paste, tomatoe sauce, 8 onions, and 6 red peppers. The rest of the recipe is hot peppers, 8 1/2 lbs. of boned beef, chili powder, cumin, salt etc.
The recipe was an award winner in the Boston Globe chili contest 20 or 30 years ago and has long been a favorite.
The total recipe......a whole batch.....comes out with the following totals: calories - 15269
Fat - 1034
Carbs - 378
Protein - 1120
Fiber - 90
Somebody tell me, can I make this monster and plan on eating any of it or I am just going to be spending a ton of money making something that would be blowing the diet all to heck?