You're Gonna LOVE This!

Now that our lives are all about counting carbohydrates, we are interested in any help we can get to make things a little easier. The hardest part in planning meals for Allison's diabetes is figuring out how many carbs are in the foods I make from scratch. If I bake cookies, I have to calculate all the carbs in each ingredient, add everything together and divide by the number of servings. When I first learned this from the dietician, my immediate thought was, "good-bye homecooking!"

And since we know this is one of the top five sins in the world...I was thrilled when I was given this website from the dietician at the diabetes clinic. All you have to do is copy and paste your recipe and indicate the number of servings and in less than a second, it calculates the nutritional facts in that recipe. I was so excited when I first tried it I almost cried! (Of course, these days I am easily set off...)

Whether you're counting carbs or are interested in any other nutritional facts about your favorite recipes, this website is pretty cool and FREE! The hardest part is figuring the serving size on the old classic recipes that never had that part figured out to begin with.

http://www.calorie-count.com/calories/recipe_analysis.php

I'll be interested to know if any of you are as excited about this as I am.