This may seem like a stupid question but since I just started LCing yesterday I feel it is OK to ask. I see all these recipes that I wat to try (especially the Pizza Quiche) but I am wondering where I can get the nutritional info. I am using Fit Day to track my carbs but wanted to know if there is an easier way to calculate this stuff without having to put in every ingredient individually?

How do you guys all do this?

I think the best way is to open another fitday account and use it for calculating recipes. Then you can enter the information in your personal account as a custom food.

Boring and tedious yes, but you only have to do it once.

Karen

Hi,

You can also use the Nutritional calculator at
http://www.nat.uiuc.edu/

Use Nat Tools Version 2.0

I use this in conjuntion with Fit day. I use nat tools to total my recipes then copy into Excel and divide all the nutritional totals by the number of servings. Then on Fitday, I create a new food, giving it my recipe name and put in all the nutritional values.
Still tedious but this other nutritional calculator gives more information and you can even analyze all the foods in your recipe individually. This is cool because if your recipe contains too many carbohydrates, you can easily see the culprit and modify your recipe.

hope that helps

Deb