I made bread! Having trouble counting the calories.

SilverMetal

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So i made small pita breads, i counted all the calories that go into make it, the flower, the oil, salt, and sugar (that's all that's in it)

If you ate all the bread, it would be 657 calories.

Now i cut the bread up into 16 EQUAL pieces (i measured with a ruler) technically each piece should be 41 calories.

I'm looking online at and and it says about 75 cals per ounce. Each piece of bread is about 1.5 oz, so about 114 cal per piece.

SO! My question is this, do I go by what is actually in the bread that I calculated from the nutrition facts on the ingredients OR do i listen to the calorie websites???
 
If you made the bread, weighed out all the ingredients and tracked the calories, no, you would go by your results.

If you want to be even more specific, weigh whatever you made (whole) decide how many calories are in an ounce, and then you can just weigh it as you eat it to figure out the calories.

I use to do this all the time when I made dinner.
 
Yours is homemade. The link shows calories for heavily processed commercial food. The difference doesn't surprise me at all.

In general you'd be hard pushed to home-make food with as many calories/oz as processed commercial food. Usually it'll be 1/2 or even 1/3 the calories (and cheaper) when you make something yourself.

For example, a Big Mac is 540 calories (3.2 oz 'beef') for ~170calories / ounce.
Last night I made 12 ounce burgers for about 830 calories or 70 calories / ounce. And mine were far, FAR better than a Big Mac.
 
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Kayshiz said:
If you made the bread, weighed out all the ingredients and tracked the calories, no, you would go by your results.

If you want to be even more specific, weigh whatever you made (whole) decide how many calories are in an ounce, and then you can just weigh it as you eat it to figure out the calories.

I use to do this all the time when I made dinner.
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Oh this is a fantastic idea! Weigh all the bread and then measure it by ounce. Thank you! I ate two pieces of the bread yesterday and was kinda worried that i went over my calories

Iain1974 said:
Yours is homemade. The link shows calories for heavily processed commercial food. The difference doesn't surprise me at all.

In general you'd be hard pushed to home-make food with as many calories/oz as processed commercial food. Usually it'll be 1/2 or even 1/3 the calories (and cheaper) when you make something yourself.

For example, a Big Mac is 540 calories (3.2 oz 'beef') for ~170calories / ounce.
Last night I made 12 ounce burgers for about 830 calories or 70 calories / ounce. And mine were far, FAR better than a Big Mac.
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You have a great point! But that makes me wonder how long my bread is going to last without the preservatives. but 12 oz burgers?!? OMG that's huge! Sounds delicious! I think from now on I'm making my own bread.
 
Heh, yeah it was big but I'd lifted weights so treated myself. 12 oz is about as big as they can be without integrity being an issue.

Obviously I don't eat that every day but I'd guess I was still under 2500 calories for the day which is OK for me.
 
Pretty much exactly what Iain said. Homemade stuff is mostly always going to have fewer calories than store bought. Enter the values from your recipe in a recipe calculation site (Livestrong.com has one) and then divide it by the number of servings you made.
 
Iain1974 said:
Heh, yeah it was big but I'd lifted weights so treated myself. 12 oz is about as big as they can be without integrity being an issue.

Obviously I don't eat that every day but I'd guess I was still under 2500 calories for the day which is OK for me.
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You make me want hamburgers! Thats what Im having tonight! with the bread i made!! WHOOTT! <3
 
KaraCooks said:
Pretty much exactly what Iain said. Homemade stuff is mostly always going to have fewer calories than store bought. Enter the values from your recipe in a recipe calculation site (Livestrong.com has one) and then divide it by the number of servings you made.
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Thank you for the website! It was so helpful!
 
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