Hi, I’m a newbie, I make my own almond bread. How do I calculate the macros?
I make my own Keto bread. How can I calculate the macros?
beccs
(Lazy, Dirty Keto 😝)
#2
Determine the calories, fat, protein, and carbs in the entire loaf and then divide by the serving size.
CarlKeller
(Carl Keller)
#3
Cronometer.com is an amazing tool and it’s free. You can can go to Foods>Custom Recipes, create a title and start plugging in the ingredients and amounts. Cronometer does the work for you to determine exactly what the macros are.
Sheri_Knauer
(Sheri Knauer)
#5
I always put the recipes I make into Cronometer. I weigh every ingredient and find the brand of ingredient I used (as macros can vary from brand to brand). Then when I eat that particular recipe, I just weigh, in grams, how much I ate and put that into Cronometer and it tells me, to the best of its ability, what my macros are for the amount I ate are. Its pretty accurate because, of course, if say you make a bread with pumpkin seeds on top, Chronometer has no idea if the slice you are eating has more pumpkin seeds on it than a slice you eat tomorrow or the one you had the day before.
When I make the same recipe again, I pull up the recipe I had created before and I will adjust it if I change things in it or use more or less of a certain ingredient. For some people, that might be more work than they want to do but for me, thats the way I roll and I like doing it.
David_Stilley
(Full Metal KETO AF)
#6
Where did you get the bread recipe? Most of the low carb recipes I have seen on line have nutritional info at the end.
Daisytoad
(Amanda)
#7
Even if the site has macro info, I like to run my own numbers. Sometimes the servings are ridiculously small, or much larger than I ended up making. This way I know what the macros are for what I am having.
I also second, or third, using Cronometer. However, I have found on rare occasion that the macros from my recipe don’t transfer over to my diary correctly. I have just kept track of the difference in my head. 