Are you counting macros but make homemade ingredients? You know what i’m talking about, you make your own mayonnaise and then add it into other recipes you make, like your tuna salad.

You make your own turkey sausage and then put it in an egg bake you make?

I mean surely, you must be way too extra to actually track the macros of what you are eating.

WRONG.

It’s actually quite easy to count macros of your homemade ingredients, and recipes using them. You may find that some sauces or marinades you make are actually quite low cal. Sometimes you can find ways to make them lower cal, like big mac sauce or blue cheese sauce by substituting greek yogurt.

Some homemade ingredients I like to make are avocado oil mayonnaise, big mac sauce, blue cheese sauce, maple dijon vinaigrette, sweet and sour sauce, BBQ sauce, and teriyaki marinade. This saves me SO MUCH on cost and allows me to customize these things to fit my dietary preferences.

How to Calculate the Macros of Homemade ingredients

How to Calculate Macros of Homemade Ingredients

Active Time: 2 minutes

Prep Time: 2 minutes

Total Time: 4 minutes

I will show you how to easily calculate the macronutrients of any homemade ingredients you make! Ideally you should make the framework of this recipe calculation before you are actually making your ingredient and have it available to enter information while you are making your recipe.

Materials

Original food item containers or a computer or phone

Tools

Kitchen Scale like https://a.co/d/fvxKIGB
My Macros + app

Instructions

Open up the MM+ app
Click the top left corner pull down menu
Select Recipes
Create New Recipe
Enter Custom Ingredient 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, spices, 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 in your homemade ingredient in the blue oval as you weigh them in your recipe. You can also choose to use a notepad for this step and then enter them into the app afterwards.
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)
Weigh your ingredient in grams (TARE the weight of your container!)
Enter piece weight in the blue oval
This is the nutritional value of your homemade ingredient!

To Ensure you Can Use Your Homemade Ingredient in a Recipe:

1. Find your ingredient under Recipes

2. Enter 100 G (or any theoretical amount) as the amount of your ingredient you are using

3. Jot down the Protein, Carbohydrate, and Fat along with your theoretical gram amount

4. No need to save, just back out

5. Open Add Custom Food at the very bottom of the pulldown menu

6. Enter your theoretical gram amount along with the corresponding Protein, Carbohydrate, and Fat values

7. Press Save

8. You have now saved your homemade ingredient as a Custom Ingredient to be incorporated into any custom Recipes!

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 the $3 it costs to download the MyMacros+ app.

How to Make a Recipe USING Your Homemade ingredients

How to Calculate Macros of a Recipe Using Homemade Ingredients

Active Time: 2 minutes

Prep Time: 2 minutes

Total Time: 4 minutes

I will show you how to easily calculate the macronutrients of any homemade recipe you make, including ones with homemade ingredients! Ideally you should make the framework of this recipe calculation before you are actually making your recipe so you have it available to enter information while you are making your recipe.