I needed to make counting my calories as easy as possible. I have a spreadsheet to keep track of everything, but I needed an easy way to look up calories. Especially for food consumed at a restaurant.
I found CalorieKing. I’m not signing up for there service, but I do use them to look up calories for various foods.
There is some guessing involved though. Here’s a sample of my calories spreadsheet:
| Date | Meal | Food | Calories | Daily Totals |
| 11/07/07 | Breakfast | Kashi Strawberry Fields | 120 | |
| 2% Milk | 61 | |||
| Coffee – 2 cups | 10 | |||
| Lunch | Skyline Chili reg 5-way | 840 | ||
| Unsweet Tea | 5 | |||
| Coffee – 1 cup | 5 | |||
| Dinner | Salad w/chicken & dressing | 300 | ||
| Coffee – 2 cups | 10 | 1351 | ||
| 11/08/07 | Breakfast | Kashi Strawberry Fields | 120 | |
| 2% Milk | 61 | |||
| Orange Juice – 6oz | 84 | |||
| Coffee – 2 cups | 10 | |||
| Lunch | Subway Veggie – 12in w/mustard | 460 | ||
| — mustard | 6 | |||
| Coffee – 1 cup | 5 | |||
| Snack | Yogurt – vanilla – 1 cup | 190 | ||
| Banana | 105 | |||
| V8 Juice – 8oz | 50 | |||
| Dinner | Spaghetti w/ ground turkey | 439 | ||
| Coffee – 2 cups | 10 | 1540 |
You’ll notice that I put 5 calories for a cup of coffee. I drink my coffee black with no sweetener, but I think there are a few calories from the oils.