Macro Tracking Apps

[ShoppGirl 5,072]

I have been doing really good with the Baritastic App logging everything until now. I made homemade Turkey Meatballs with Peppers and onions and marinara for dinner but I have no clue how to log it. It made 16 meatballs and I’m early out so I plan to eat one but the only way I knke to do it is to say like 1oz Turkey, and literally reduce all the ingredients down dividing by 16 but that’s pretty hard and how do you enter 1/16 of an egg lol. I know that there has to be an easier way to do it then that. If not, any other app suggestions so that I can add entire meals and then just enter the portion that I ate?

[MrsFitz 441]

9 hours ago, ShoppGirl said:

I have been doing really good with the Baritastic App logging everything until now. I made homemade Turkey Meatballs with Peppers and onions and marinara for dinner but I have no clue how to log it. It made 16 meatballs and I’m early out so I plan to eat one but the only way I knke to do it is to say like 1oz Turkey, and literally reduce all the ingredients down dividing by 16 but that’s pretty hard and how do you enter 1/16 of an egg lol. I know that there has to be an easier way to do it then that. If not, any other app suggestions so that I can add entire meals and then just enter the portion that I ate?

I use the Nutracheck app and I can add my own recipes with weights & nutritional value of each ingredient and state how many servings it makes. I can then use either the portion size, the full recipe or specific weight used. So for your turkey meatballs I would state the weight/nutritional value of turkey, peppers, onion, marinara etc and say it makes 16 portions. I don’t know if this helps!

[catwoman7 11,277]

5 hours ago, MrsFitz said:

I use the Nutracheck app and I can add my own recipes with weights & nutritional value of each ingredient and state how many servings it makes. I can then use either the portion size, the full recipe or specific weight used. So for your turkey meatballs I would state the weight/nutritional value of turkey, peppers, onion, marinara etc and say it makes 16 portions. I don’t know if this helps!

I do the same thing with MyFitnessPal - I enter a recipe (and if it's online, you can just put in the web address for it and MFP will import it) and put down how many servings it is. The app will divide it out to give you per serving stats.

[ShoppGirl 5,072]

Awesome. Thank you both. I need to check to see which of those I have available to me. Especially since I know that I will be eating them again and I will eventually eat more than one meatball. I did figure out how you can enter a meals name then enter in all the macros yourself but I would definitely rather just use one that calculates that all for me. .

[FifiLux 563]

Yeah I use the MyFitnessPal app and site too. I input my own recipes or links to ones I find online and it does all the work once I say how many portions I made. Love it.

[AmberFL 1,047]

I use MyNetDiary and its been great!

[ShoppGirl 5,072]

11 hours ago, MrsFitz said:

I use the Nutracheck app and I can add my own recipes with weights & nutritional value of each ingredient and state how many servings it makes. I can then use either the portion size, the full recipe or specific weight used. So for your turkey meatballs I would state the weight/nutritional value of turkey, peppers, onion, marinara etc and say it makes 16 portions. I don’t know if this helps!

Btw you magic quiche looks good. 😊

[MrsFitz 441]

6 minutes ago, ShoppGirl said:

Btw you magic quiche looks good. 😊

Thank you! 🥰

[ShoppGirl 5,072]

I was wrong. Baritastic does let me enter a recipe and just log the portion that I eat I just wasn’t looking in the right place. Thank you all for your suggestions, though. I really do appreciate this community for always being so eager to help with anything. ❤️

[Hjtkah 0]

On 9/2/2024 at 5:49 PM, ShoppGirl said:

I have been doing really good with the Baritastic App logging everything until now. I made homemade Turkey Meatballs with Peppers and onions and marinara for dinner but I have no clue how to log it. It made 16 meatballs and I’m early out so I plan to eat one but the only way I knke to do it is to say like 1oz Turkey, and literally reduce all the ingredients down dividing by 16 but that’s pretty hard and how do you enter 1/16 of an egg lol. I know that there has to be an easier way to do it then that. If not, any other app suggestions so that I can add entire meals and then just enter the portion that I ate?

I use 'Macrofirst' app! It's crazy easy to use! You can even scan barcode of stuff and it'll automatically pull the nutritional facts up and all of the information for you. It tracks everything including Water intake! Check it out because it's the best one I've found so far that you don't have to actually pay for! They do have an option where you pay for it to get more out of the app, but I've always used the free version and it has and offers everything!