Nutrition Facts at Your Fingertips
Thursday, March 27, 2008 at 07:09AM Look what I found at Rosemary's this morning: a new toy!
This chart was generated at the website, Calorie-Count.com.
To give it a try, I chose a very simple recipe--basic crepes. Partly because it is a simple and straightforward recipe and partly because I've been making crepes a lot lately (one fits very nicely on my little brown plate).
106 calories isn't much, is it? Now, let's compare that to one FILLED Creamy Spicy Sausage Crepe:
Add them both together and one filled crepe--well, you do the math. (Recipe gets an A+, but the filling gets a Nutrition Grade of D+. Must've been the veggies that saved it from total failure!)
Thanks, Rosemary!
Kim from Hiraeth
I've been playing around with this a little more and discovered that you can get the nutrition facts for individual ingredients by clicking on it's name below the chart. This could help you make adjustments with the recipe. If half and half is the big culprit, see what substituting milk might do to lower the fat and calorie count for the recipe.
Reader Comments (4)
Yikes! Pretty cool tool, isn't it? But it sure doesn't let us get away with anything...
How did you manage to post the chart? I made a real mess of it when I tried to do it.
Oh, it's easy once you get the hang of it. First, you get the image you want to capture on your monitor and then click the "print screen" button on your keyboard. That copies the image of the desktop. Then open your Paint program and paste it in. Crop out the section you want; paste it into a new Paint document, save it and voila'. Done.
Thanks for the explanation! Now I'm gonna have to figure out what a Paint program is...I'll ask my son to come to my rescue. Again.
Oh! That's FANTASTIC! I've been wanting to get serious about losing weight and TA DA! There's just the thing I needed - thank you!
Hey! That's pretty nifty! But as Rosemary said, it doesn't let you get away with anything.