Please help concerning veggies.

[LJBOYCE]

I was wondering how many carbs were in a loose packed cup of salad greens?

[not2late]

Hi.

Without knowing which greens are in your salad it will be virtually impossible to give you a carb count. However,

Here's are some websites with nutritional info of food.

http://www.calorieking.com

http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/cgi-bin/nut_search.pl

There are also books with nutritional info, like
Dr. Atkins New Carbohydrate Gram Counter
The Complete Book of Food Counts by Corrine Netzer
Dana Carpender's Carb Counter by Dana Carpender.

[LJBOYCE]

WELL atkins allows you 3 loose cups of salad, i just need to know how many carbs that is, atkins does not specify what kind of sald greens. The veggies are not the only carbs i consume in a day, i just want to be sure i am not going over my carb limit. Eggs have carbs, cheese has carbs. I am eating green leaf lettuce.

[Pam_C]

There are several acceptable salad veggies and that is why no one can say but if you are only eating lettuce I know 1 cup shredded romain is about 1.33 carbs and 0.9 are from fiber.

[CherTLC4u]

If you buy a bad of cut lettuce (like I do, cuz I'm lazy) it should say it all on the back of the package.

If you use www.fitday.com you can put that in as a custom food. That helps me alot! :nod