I am trying to rework Carmen's Key Lime Pie recipe into a low fat/sugar free recipe. I have a crust, sugar free sweetened condensed non-fat milk, pie filling, and a meringue recipe in mind, but before I attempt making the pie, I want to know if it's worth my efforts nutritionally to attempt it. I hope to get the numbers down enough, and the pie tasting good enough, to become a supplier of them to local coffee houses or some such.
I don't like the MasterCook program. It slows my computer down terribly and I personally despise the way the recipes are formatted when pulled up in the program. But I know MasterCook supposedly figures out nutritional counts on recipes.
I also know there are websites like allrecipes that figures out nutritional counts, but since I want to market the resultant pies, I don't want to post the various recipes on websites anywhere.
Does anyone know of a way I can figure out the nutrtional counts of the individual recipes, and then the nutritional counts of the entire pie using those recipes to assemble it? Without posting the recipes where anyone can see them?
Nutritional Breakdowns
Moderator: Menolly
This may be a bit superficial, but....are you able to calculate the total weight, in grams, of carbs, fats and proteins in your recipe? If so, then
9 Calories per gram of fat
3.4 Calories per gram of carbs
4 Calories per gram of protein
Not sure if that's helpful at all, or even if that's what you're looking for.
9 Calories per gram of fat
3.4 Calories per gram of carbs
4 Calories per gram of protein
Not sure if that's helpful at all, or even if that's what you're looking for.
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DukkhaWaynhim
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I can volunteer to help you calculate food counts. Just tell me how much of each ingredient goes into the recipe, and what the serving size is, and I can calculate on an as-needed basis using Excel and Googling for the nutritional info for each ingredient.
Not the most glamorous way of doing it, but in theory I could build you an Excel sheet to allow you to add ingredients and calculate a recipe on-the-fly.
Have you checked out shareware and freeware tools available?
DW
Not the most glamorous way of doing it, but in theory I could build you an Excel sheet to allow you to add ingredients and calculate a recipe on-the-fly.
Have you checked out shareware and freeware tools available?
DW
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DukkhaWaynhim
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Update. The NutritionData website allows you to create a pantry of ingredients, including custom items not already found in their (extensive) database, then build recipes from your pantry.
Once you've done this, it gives you a complete and printable Nutrition Facts label, along with a complete nutritional profile, including glycemic index and vitamins/minerals information. In summary - it rocks!
Once you create a (free) account there, you save your pantry, including the recipes you have created.
They even give you limited publishing rights to stick 'em on food you sell, as long as you keep their dotcom address on it.
All that, and 0 software to download! How's that for sweet?!
dw
Once you've done this, it gives you a complete and printable Nutrition Facts label, along with a complete nutritional profile, including glycemic index and vitamins/minerals information. In summary - it rocks!
Once you create a (free) account there, you save your pantry, including the recipes you have created.
They even give you limited publishing rights to stick 'em on food you sell, as long as you keep their dotcom address on it.
All that, and 0 software to download! How's that for sweet?!
dw
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