how to calculate macros of home cooked brownies
What a relief to know you can calculate the macros of home cooked brownies!
Just because you count macros doesn’t mean you have to cast off your home cooked brownies.
Just because you ate one of your home cooked brownies doesn’t mean you need to cast off your macro counting either 🙂
Calculating the macros of your home cooked food isn’t difficult. Follow these simple steps and be on your way. Be sure to check out the video examples as well!
macros of home cooked brownies EASY BUTTON!
While this could be done by hand, by far the easiest method is using the MM+ app. At a $3 charge, this app is worth its weight in gold. If you are looking to determine what you are consuming nutritionally, this app ensures what you are eating aligns with your personal goals. This could be weight loss, weight maintenance, or gaining weight.
How to calculate the macros of home cooked brownies
How to Calculate Macros of Home Cooked Brownies
I will show you how to easily calculate the macronutrients of any homemade brownies you make! Ideally you should make the framework of this recipe calculation before you are actually making your brownies and have it available to enter information while you are making your recipe. If this isn't available you can estimate based on the gram amounts in your recipe (IF they are listed), if you are sure you followed the recipe.
Materials
- Your homemade bread
- Original ingredient containers or a computer or phone
Tools
- Kitchen Scale like https://a.co/d/fvxKIGB
- My Macros + app
Instructions
- Weigh the empty, clean dish that you plan on using for making the brownies and write down the weight.
- Open up the MM+ app
- Click the top left corner pull down menu
- Select Recipes
- Create New Recipe
- Enter Custom Brownie Name for your personal identification - some people include a date but I re-edit the recipe if I think there were changes. To be technical and precise, you should recalculate each time.
- Add your ingredients that have nutritional value (things like water and salt need not be included!)
- Add Custom Ingredient for each ingredient in your recipe
- Enter name of ingredient (i.e., egg or unbleached all purpose flour)
- Copy the exact information from package. You will see "serving size" with a gram amount. Enter that, along with the corresponding Calories, Fat, Protein, and Carbohydrates for that particular serving size. You also have the option to include other nutrients if you'd like. If you do not have packaging, find the company website nutritional information. You will also need to use a website like nutritionix.com to calculate the nutrition of whole ingredients like eggs or vegetables.
- Press Save Food
- Repeat for remaining ingredients. If you need to take a break, press save or it will time out and delete your information. You can always go back in and finish an incomplete recipe if you saved it.
- Press Save
- Enter the weights in grams of the ingredients of your recipe in the blue oval as you weigh them in your recipe (or alternatively from the recipe if you were exact). You can also choose to use a notepad for this step and then enter them into the app afterwards.
- Press Save
- Complete making your yummy brownies
- After brownies are complete and before eating (the hardest part!!!) weigh your brownies on your scale. Subtract the weight of the pan that you determined beforehand if necessary. Find your custom recipe again and edit the total servings numeral with how many grams, and change the serving name below it to grams.
- Press Save
- Go into Recipes
- Select your Recipe
- Select at the top drop down to select which meal you will be consuming this (if applicable)
- Cut what you want to eat
- Weigh your piece in grams (TARE the weight of your plate!)
- Enter piece weight in the blue oval
- This is the nutritional content for your portion of brownie!
Notes
This could technically be done by hand. I believe you would have to solve multiple algebraic equations to calculate the individual macronutrients in the original weight by the new after cooked weight. Despite the fact I homeschool and I majored in science, not doing this is worth $3
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why calculate the macros of home cooked brownies?
You don’t have to if you don’t want to.
Venturing into macros can be intimidating regardless, never mind when you enjoy so much of your home cooking.
You certainly don’t need to spend so much of your time home cooking in order to lose weight. You can take advantage of simplified cooking while counting macros which is a HUGE time saver, making calculating the macros of your home cooked recipes unnecessary. But I’m sure you still have some home cooked recipes that you like to make.
You may want to, especially over the long haul.
Food can be part of our life experience culturally. Particularly during holidays, special home cooked treats are special to us. Although learning how to count macros helps to place food and eating in its rightful place in your life, taking part in celebrations and enjoying foods that have special meaning to us is important. If macro counting is going to be something we can incorporate into our lifestyle, having the ability to enjoy home cooked treats is a consideration that we need to make.
Certainly part of learning how to count macros means moderation – and sometimes I DO miss out on certain foods I didn’t plan well for that day. But being able to make home cooked recipes ensures you don’t ALWAYS feel deprived or left out. You can still enjoy eating foods that don’t have a nutrition label. You can still enjoy foods that are not “healthy”.
Although cheat meals can definitely be part of your macro counting experience at times (depending on your goals), it’s ideally something you would want to avoid having very frequently if you want to stay on track with your weight loss goals. Being able to calculate the macros of home cooked brownies and other treats enables you to stay on track more frequently and better learn moderation.
Education is power! enjoy counting the macros of your home cooked brownies
So there you have it, you CAN calculate the macros of a home cooked treat, enjoy it and all it means to you, AND stay on track with your macro goals. Enjoy!
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