# Good site or program for counting calories in recipes

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-site-or-program-for-counting-calories-in-recipes/653490>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [March 20, 2013, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-site-or-program-for-counting-calories-in-recipes/653490 "2013-03-20T21:13:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2013, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-site-or-program-for-counting-calories-in-recipes/653490/1 "2013-03-20T21:13:06Z")

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Does anyone use a site or a program to count the calories in homemade recipes that you would recommend? I’m trying some new cooking styles and methods and would like to be able to tinker with the calories and nutritional information, and that’s easier when I can track it well.

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**Author:** ![TheChileanBlob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thechileanblob/32/435_2.png) [@TheChileanBlob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheChileanBlob)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2013, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-site-or-program-for-counting-calories-in-recipes/653490/2 "2013-03-20T21:19:22Z")

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I use [My Fitness Pal](http://www.myfitnesspal.com/). It has a recipe thing like you said, and a database where you can look up restaurant foods, etc.

Edit: Also they have a smartphone app that’s really easy to use, too.

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**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2013, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-site-or-program-for-counting-calories-in-recipes/653490/3 "2013-03-21T18:43:34Z")

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Thank you. I’m playing around with it now.

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**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2013, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-site-or-program-for-counting-calories-in-recipes/653490/4 "2013-03-21T18:47:21Z")

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I’m a SparkPeople person, so I use SparkRecipes. It works well enough.

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**Author:** ![Snickers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2013, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-site-or-program-for-counting-calories-in-recipes/653490/5 "2013-03-21T19:04:09Z")

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2nd the SparkRecipes - it’s a pretty flexible recipe builder. That said, it’s got kind of a double data entry thing going on that puts me off, but I deal with it.