Urgent help in Counting Carbs please !!

[Twinkie_30]

hello
i just bought a kitchen scale on my third day of induction and am a bit overwhelmed. i weigh stuff in ounces, Then go to asknumbers.com to get an exact conversion to grams,then look online at carb-counter.org to see how many carbs it comes up to. Only the site gives out the total for 100 gms, so i have to figure it out again to make sure i have the exact count for what i used.

I need some help in making sure that I calculated my carbs correctly.

I made a soup with:



Chicken breast – 12 oz (no carbs)

Broccoli – 6oz

Spinach – 6 oz

Mushrooms – 4 oz



According to carb-counter.org :

100 gram of broccoli is 2.35 Grams of carbs

Since I used 6 oz , that is 170 gram

So 170 gram of broccoli is 6.04 gram ?

Similarly:

100 gram of spinach is 1.46 grams of carbs

170 gram …………….3.74 grams of carbs



100 gram of mushrooms is 3.09 grams of carbs

I used 4 oz, that is 113 gram

113 gram ………………..3.39 grams of carbs.



So my soup was 6.04 plus 3.74 plus 3.39 grams

= 13.17 total carbs .

Rounded up to 14 carbs



I drank half of this soup so that is 7 carbs.



Daily allowance 20 , I still have 13 more carbs to spend ?

[sallyseachange]

Re: Urgent help in Counting Carbs please !!

You might find Fitday helpful with all the calculating: http://www.fitday.com/ It will do lots automatically for you and you can put foods you eat often (or complete recipes) in a custom foods list for speedy entering.

Remember to deduct the fibre from your carb count.

(Hope I remembered right about the recipes in the custom foods... I've used the PC version of Fitday since forever, so can't remember too well... Pls correct me if I'm wrong anyone.)