Entering pizza toppings using fitday

[pearson]

If you are eating an already prepared pizza and you only ate the topping, not the crust, and you wish to enter this on the fitday tool, surely you don't enter each individual pepperoni slice or chop of green pepper. What is your method of guestimating the nutritional values?

[not2late]

You enter the individual ingredients. So green pepper, onion, etc. Unless you measured the ingredients, you'll have to make the best guess about their amounts.

[TitianWasp]

The first couple of times, it is handy to have the food scale or measuring cups nearby so that you get a good sense of what a tablespoon or quarter cup look like. Pretty soon you won't need them anymore to guesstimate, which is what I tend to do. A small slice of pizza has generally a quarter to a third cup of cheese on it (I try to round up) for instance. You don't do individual pepperoni slices, but you can figure what a quarter cup of pepperoni looks like.

Measure initially, and then as you get more comfortable, you can generally make an educated estimate. Adjust the amounts in fitday accordingly. If they measure in cups and you have tablespoons, just google "tablespoons in a cup" and 20 million pages with conversion calculators will pop up.

[pearson]

Thanks. No, I didn't measure, I just dug in! Wouldn't that be a terrific feature? Enter a huge slice of pizza - (minus) the crust and the results are instantly displayed.

[TitianWasp]

I wish! I also wish they'd allow you to delete items from one of their preset listed foods - like if you were having beef stew, and you made yours without potatoes, you could go to their beef stew page and look at the nutritional information, and then click on the potatoes to delete them, and the new information would calculate.

The McDonalds' website will let you do that with their foods. Love it.