Servings in Custom Recipe Topic

U1192913535 08/27/22
Hi, I don't know if I am doing something wrong or if some of my recipes are just calorie bombs. I'll enter in a recipe, like for a big batch of homemade granola for example.

1.25 cups of coconut oil (supposedly 2400 calories)
.5 cup maple syrup (420 cals)
2 T almond extract (72 calls)
918 g rolled oats (3672 calories)
229 sliced almonds (1298 cals)
1 cup raw pumpkin seeds (680 cals)

I enter all that in and it says it is 8542 cals per serving. I know that is not right, because this amount is for two huge trays of granola, not just 1 serving. So I guesstimate that I am going to eat 1/20th of the recipe each time, which is roughly a half a cup of granola, and enter in .05 as my serving. But that is still 427 calories, which seems crazy high for 1/2 cup of granola.

Am I doing this wrong?

U1192953426 08/27/22
Well I would suggest you weigh up each ingredient in grams, that’s way more accurate than guesstimating a cup size for each.

So weigh up everything, gram for gram (you could take an average too if you wanna be really precise, would take a bit of math work but if it’s a staple in your diet and you’re concerned enough it’s worth it.)

Then when you take a typical serving out, weigh it and from your average calories per g of food you’ll know pretty much exactly how much you’re eating :)

U1192953426 08/27/22
But honestly
coconut oil (fat)
Almonds (fat)
Maple syrup (high sugar/carbs)
Oats ( high carbs)

It probably isn’t far off 400 calories in a serving because all of those foods are high calorie foods.
Healthy foods but high calorie non the less!

U1192627082 08/28/22
I’m not surprised at all. Granola is ridiculously high in calories

Dietician 08/29/22 replied to U1192913535
Hi there U1192913535-
It sounds like you are on the right track! Generally speaking, granola is high in fat and calories. This brief YouTube video walks you through the steps to create a recipe from scratch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-ZOZ7BldiQ

Have a great day! Joanna (MyNetDiary Dietitian)

Servings in Custom Recipe