Recipe Calorie Calculator
Calculate the calories and nutrition facts for your homemade recipes. Simply enter your ingredients to get the total calories per serving for your meals.
Ingredients List
How to use the Recipe Calorie Calculator
Cooking at home is one of the best ways to control your nutrition, but knowing exactly how many calories are in a "scoop" of casserole can be tough. This recipe calorie calculator helps you aggregate the nutritional information from individual ingredients to get a clear picture of your meal's profile.
- List Ingredients: Check the packaging of your ingredients for the Calorie, Protein, Carb, and Fat amounts for the quantity you are using.
- Input Data: Enter these values into the calculator rows. Use the "Add Ingredient" button for complex recipes.
- Set Servings: Determine how many portions your recipe creates (e.g., a pan of lasagna might cut into 8 squares).
- Calculate: See the breakdown per serving instantly.
Why track calories per recipe?
Using a meal calorie calculator allows you to:
- Portion Control: Understand if your "healthy" salad dressing is adding 400 hidden calories.
- Meal Prep: Accurately divide bulk meals into daily containers with known macro counts.
- Customization: Tweak recipes (e.g., swapping heavy cream for greek yogurt) and immediately see the nutritional impact.
Tips for Accurate Calculation
For the most precise results with a homemade food calorie calculator:
- Weigh Raw: Meat loses water weight when cooked. It is usually best to enter the nutrition facts for the raw weight unless the package specifies otherwise.
- Don't Forget Oils: Cooking oils and butter are extremely calorie-dense. Measure them carefully and include them in the list.
- Divide Evenly: When serving, try to divide the final dish into equal portions to ensure your "per serving" calculation reflects reality.
Looking to balance your diet? Use our Macro Calculator to see what your daily targets should be, then use this tool to build meals that fit those goals.
? Frequently Asked Questions
Most nutrition labels list values for the product as sold (raw/uncooked). We recommend weighing ingredients raw and entering those values, as cooking methods (baking vs boiling) change the final weight differently.
If you discard most of the marinade, it's tricky. A rule of thumb is to count 50% of the marinade's calories if it's an oily base, or less if it's mostly vinegar/soy sauce and you pat the meat dry.
This is a privacy-focused calculator that runs in your browser. It does not save your recipes to a server. If you refresh the page, the data will reset.
You can leave the Protein, Carb, and Fat fields as 0 if you only care about Calories. The total calorie calculation will still work.