cool tool

Ugh. After 6 weeks of regular workouts at the gym, it's time to kick it up a notch. And so... I started my food log today! Ugh... I mean... YEAH!!!

This next step comes in the nick of time since, as previously blogged, I'm also trying to cook more... and by "cook" I mean "actually create things from scratch". Regretably, I am not very good at following recipes. Though cooking on the fly is fun, the caloric consequences can be disastrous (see moo-tza-reh-la post). I start out with what looks like a sound set of culinary instructions (sometimes), but invariably start adding things, taking things out, making substitutions. To help me keep my kitchen in check, I've found the following website to be a real sweat-saver (meaning, I won't have to sweat an extra 20 minutes at the gym for eating that!):

Calorie Count Recipe Analysis

http://caloriecount.about.com/cc/recipe_analysis.php

 

This site is great for people like me who like to modify recipes or, more often than not, throw stuff together just to see what happens. In a nutshell, you can enter your recipe and get a quick and reliable breakdown of what you are about to consume.  It'll even give your recipe a letter grade!  Yikes.

I ran an analysis (doesn't that sound fancy?!?) on a banana bread recipe today and got a B-.  Hmmm...  NOT good enough.  Let's see... apple sauce for oil... stevia for sugar... up to a B+ (better)...  zucchini for bananas (I can live with that)... A+!  Now, that's what I'm talking about!