Wednesday, July 9, 2025

"Pour and pray" home cook - what's the best way to track calories?

Hello! I cook the majority of our meals at home from scratch which can be a fantastic tool for weight loss. I'd like to be able to track calories but the major issue I'm running into is that I'm not a recipe kinda person. Recipes are, at best, a suggestion or loose guidelines, except when it comes to baking which has a much lower threshold for improvisation.

Sure, I have a rough idea of what goes into a recipe, but for the most part, it's some of this, a bit of that, some slow moving leftovers that get a makeover, a splash of this sauce, a bit of that spice, and whole lot of "Eh, just keeping adding it til the ancestors say 'Oy, that'll do, that'll do" because I have a good intuition of what will work and what flavors pair well with each other.

Since weighing your food and being able to accurately know how much of something is composing your dish is essential to accurate calorie counting, but is the antithesis of how I cook, I could really use some suggestions. I've got ADHD and really enjoy cooking, and I'm afraid my spicy brain will just flip the middle finger at having to follow an exact recipe or faff around with measuring each and every little thing.

Thanks in advance for your help!

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