Hello everyone,
I’m starting to calorie count using MFP (I got the premium free trial) and have tried to count the calories of a recipe. I made a pumpkin soup today and am not sure that I did it right? According to my measurement, this entire ~5 Liter soup is only a little more than 2,000 calories.
My mistakes: I weighed the squashes, carrot, and radish after they baked (180g). I estimated what they were before. There is also no pumpkin in this soup. Idk why I called it pumpkin soup.
I made sure to measure the spices with only my teaspoon and tablespoon. I also paid attention to all the oil I used. I have attached pictures of the soup and recipe. Does anyone know if I did it correctly?
Thank you for your time.
by FranckIncensed
14 Comments
It seems right for the entire soup- you will get a better idea if you divide by how many servings.
Seems about right. Soup is amazing. I just made the biggest pot of minestrone and by my reckoning, it’s only about 100cal per portion. Say 150 per really full bowl. Mind boggling.
yeah you did it good, keep in mind though you can relax a bit and omit counting spices all together unless it’s starchy ones like Enchilada powder packs etc
Soup is crazy i remember when I was eating 1,200 cals a day I could make HUGE pots of soup with low cal veggies and chicken breast and it’d last me the whole day to the point i couldn’t finish it all.
sm respect for people who count seasonings. i could never bring myself to do it fr
How the fuck are there 100g of carbs in there?
Bruh- 5 spice, Hungarian paprika, thyme, AND Garam masala in the same soup? That’s all over the place lol what recipe is this
Chicken thighs have a lot of fat compared to breasts so that could factor in + seems like a large amount of oil. Generally for soup you can add a little chicken or veggie stock instead of oil and it cooks up nicely still!
It looks right to me. This is why soup is amazing.
A 15-second spray of avocado oil? Am I reading that right?
I know you said you weighed after roasting, but I honestly doubt those veggies will change the overall number that much. Maybe 100, 200 more at most if it’s a ton of veg used
Kinda curious what number you got after estimating
Like everybody else said, it seems ok to me. Soup is fantastic!
Only thing to be mindful of is how long you had your soup boiling for because the 5 litres of water added will evaporate more the longer its boiling/simmering uncovered. It wouldn’t be a huge difference, unless you were boiling down to a thicker soup. So, having less water in there at the end will increase the calorie density (e.g. 2,000 cals for a 5L soup mixture vs 2,000 cals for a 4L soup mixture).
Again, the difference wouldnt be massive. But if you are trying to be strict with recording your intake, its a good idea to weigh the finished product for liquid heavy meals like soup (if youre reducing the soup) after you’ve finished preparing the whole thing.
Why would you need that much olive oil and then still put avocado oil? Soup only needs a maximum of one tablespoon of olive oil for the whole soup. It’s this that is making the calories go through the roof.
138.3g of fat = 1244.7 kcal. More than half of the calories in your soup is coming from fat and you don’t need it. The chicken already has fat, just don’t do that amount of olive oil. This is where many people lose control of their diets, the astronomical amount of calories in things like oil, peanut butter, etc they are not aware about. “I just use a little” – what every dietitian hears, then when they realise what’s just a little, it makes sense why people are not losing weight or gainning it when on a diet.
>Something isn’t quite right here… Or is it?
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>his entire ~5 Liter soup is only a little more than 2,000 calories.
Well … soups are mostly water. 5l of water has zero calories.
Anyway, not something I would make to my food for the day, high in saturated fat, low in protein, and very high in sodium.
0.5l would be my portion, at around 200kcal.
I want one pumpkin soup, please. Hold the pumpkin