I’ve always been a fan of intuitive eating + meal prepping in bulk (the kind where you prep ingredients separately instead and throw things together based on how you’re feeling…
Personally, I use a kitchen scale for accuracy. 0.01 resolution gram scale to take any error on my part out of the equation…
The thing is, it got really annoying breaking out the pencil and notepad every time I wanted to solve for the amount of calories for, say, 67.23g worth of uncooked white rice when the serving is, say, 250cal for 100g. I got tired of having to do an algebraic inequality problem to solve for it every time.
So I’ve finally gotten around it, and I’m creating an automatic version of this on the “Numbers” spreadsheet app on IOS.
The general idea is if you feel like plopping an extra amount of ground beef in your meal, you’d just put your bowl on the scale, plop it in, record the gram weight, and forget about it.
As soon as it’s fully assembled, you could just plug in all the weights for your specific ingredients into the proper cells (whether in ounces or grams), and it will give you the exact amount of calories worth of that ingredient into a final cell.
This could easily be extrapolated into an entire dish, automatically adding up all of the total calories of each ingredient as well…
I plan on fleshing this out in a non-sexy aesthetic for my own personal use, but I’d imagine that it would make intuitive eating MUCH easier, seeing as you could even use it for candy and junk food, accurately, because you can just weigh the entire package and plug in the weight to get exact calories.
Would anyone else be interested in this?
I could use some food items to add to my spreadsheet.
Currently using: “fdc.nal.usda.gov” for my nutritional information.
I’ve already got calories for: Long-grain uncooked white rice, pan fried 80/20 ground beef, Colby Jack cheese, Hellmann’s olive oil mayonnaise, and am looking to expand my list to much more general list.
Could also be extremely useful for al of those lower calorie foods that you think in the back of your mind “don’t count” but end up adding up over time and sabotaging your diet plan… such as say, broccoli (if you’re cutting your calorie plan to the exact calorie. Those extra 35 calories will add up in the long run if you’re maxing out your calorie allowance and aren’t supplementing with exercise.
Thank you for any interest!
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