How to calculate macros of homemade sourdough bread
There is truly nothing like fresh bread! But when it comes to tracking calories or macronutrients it seems everyone is reliant on prepackaged food? What if this isn’t your preferred way to eat? Where there is a will there is a way! And there is a way to calculate the macros of any homemade sourdough bread you make 🙂
easy button!
While this could be done by hand, by far the easiest method is using the MM+ app, at a $3 charge it is worth it’s weight in gold if you are looking to determine what you are consuming nutritionally to make sure it aligns with your personal goals (weight loss, weight maintenance, gain weight).
but if it’s healthy, who cares what exactly is in it?
While we know that sourdough bread is healthy nutritionally, if you aren’t eating a proper balance and quantity of macronutrients you may find your weight on the scale or your physical appearance being different from what you’d expect. The best way to see where you are at nutritionally and to optimize feeling your best is by actually having the knowledge and information in regards to what you are eating.
How to calculate macros of homemade sourdough bread
How to Calculate Macros of Homemade Sourdough Bread
How to Calculate Macros of Sourdough Bread
I will show you how to easily calculate the macronutrients of any Homemade Sourdough Bread you make! Ideally you should make the framework of this recipe calculation before you are actually making your bread, but 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 you are sure you followed the recipe.
Materials
- Your homemade bread
- Original ingredient containers or a computer or phone
Tools
Instructions
- Open up the MM+ app
- Click the top left corner pull down menu
- Select Recipes
- Create New Recipe
- Enter Custom Bread 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 (water and salt need not be included!)
- Add Custom Ingredient
- Enter name of ingredient (i.e., Hard white wheat berries, 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 of including other nutrients if you'd like. If you do not have packaging, find the company website nutritional information online.
- 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 bread 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 delicious bread 🙂
- After bread is complete and before eating (the hardest part!!!) weigh your bread on your scale. 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 which meal you will be consuming this (if applicable)
- Slice off what you want to eat
- Weigh your slice in grams
- Enter slice weight in the blue oval
- This is the nutritional content for your portion of bread!
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
Recommended Products
As an Amazon Associate and member of other affiliate programs, I earn from qualifying purchases.
does this apply to other recipes?
Yes, you can follow this same concept to make a recipe in MM+ app to calculate the nutritional values of anything. Just follow the process and custom enter the ingredients you use in the recipe, and weigh the ingredients before and after in the same fashion. I will make another post on this topic covering this process in more detail.
best of both worlds
I was not excited about another step or thing to do on my list. But once I started tracking my macronutrients, I felt free. Free that now that I actually knew (knowledge is power!) what balance my body needed, I could eat freely within those guidelines to expect certain results. Losing weight is completely possible with eating homemade foods and even full fat dairy. Everything is in balance. There is a science behind it if you’re willing to do the work. There is hope!
Like we’ve learned from Lisa on Farmhouse on Boone once we start doing something it eventually becomes second nature. The hardest step is the first step. So just step! Before you know it you will be calculating the nutrition of all your homemade goodies. Without blinking an eye. You are on the route to empowering yourself to be the best version of yourself. Most importantly feeling, and added bonus looking your best.
Follow me for more!
Learn more about me here!
Purchase a kitchen scale (which you probably already have one if you’re baking bread!) here!
If you want to know more how I lost weight eating sourdough bread, click here!
If you want examples of what I actually eat in a day click here
