Just started on MFP and it seems good when you are scanning items and entering them in. But how do people deal with meals using fresh ingredients?
Example: I want to make a stir fry using beef and vegetables, but finding it crazy hard.
I have some beef from the butcher and when I look it up on MFP I get all kinds of different results. I'm talking hundreds of calories difference. There's countless entries, all over the place in terms of calories.
Additionally, I'm cooking everything from scratch so it's a nightmare trying to count every element. The ginger, garlic, oil, each vegetable, each ingredient I look up and spend a good five minutes scrolling through results that are very different from each other trying to pick whichever sounds the most accurate. But then part of the problem is I have no idea how many calories are in a lot of things so I'm just guessing.
Are there any tricks to this? It seems easier to just eat packet food and fast food that I can just scan. It just doesn't seem sustainable to spend an hour a night trying to research how many calories are in each ingredient.
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