Vegan Recipes - Nutrition Information

by Sue
(St. Louis Park, MN)

I notice some of your recipes include the nutrition information. How are you able to figure out the calories, carbs, fats, etc.?

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Hi Sue - Since I was a personal chef and my clients always wanted to know this nutrition information (as do some of my site visitors), I use and recommend a tool called Mastercook, which is a recipe management software program. I store all my recipes in Mastercook, which helps you to see information such as this:

Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 621 Calories; 16g Fat (18.6% calories from fat); 24g Protein; 131g Carbohydrate; 12g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol; 772mg Sodium.

The only thing is that most of the ingredients that are automatically listed in their HUGE library of ingredients are not necessarily vegan or organic, etc. So I have to enter my own ingredients. I had to do this more when I first purchased the program, but now since I used the same ingredients over and over again, I don't have to do this as much.

For instance, it might list marinara sauce in their library or ingredients. I use an organic marinara. So I simply pull out my marinara jar and create a listing for this -- the information Mastercook needs can be found on the side of the jar (nutrition information).

Then, whenever I add a recipe that includes this ingredient, it will pull this information out of the database for me so I have up-to-date nutrition information for each recipe.

Mastercook is a wonderful way to keep your recipes organized too.