I need to find out how many calories are in a recipe. where can I go to get this calculated?

I did not find an area on fitday where you can type in an actual recipe and have the nutrition calculated for you. Looks like you have to know that when you create your custom food. On caloriecount I couldn't get the "add an ingredient" part to work so that was not successful either. Maybe it had a pop up or something attached to it. I will keep trying. I did type in my recipe to food.com. Just waiting to see if/when they post it and hopefully the nutrition info will be with it once posted. Thanks for the help! I'm trying to log in the foods I eat on my lose it app on the phone but some foods you just don't know calories or something close to compare it to.

Thanks for all the great suggestions!

re food.com, perhaps you have to be logged in--I have put a few of my recipes into it and I know other who have recipes that I reference.

I like fitday.com. You can create a custom food and type in the amount of each of the ingredients and it will save the nutritional information.

I like the caloriecount one, you just type in the ingredients with the amounts, and it seems to work well. I also use the sparkpeople.com recipe calculator. I think you may have to register to use it, but it's a pretty useful site overal. Their calculator includes trace minerals and all that other stuff, but the con is that you have to type each ingredient in the search box and choose from what's available, which, if you're like me, you may use ingredients that are a little more obscure. But you can save all your recipes there. It's not as fast as caloriecount, but it gives you more info.

I have looked at food.com but did not find a place to type in my own recipe.

there are several, but I like food.com -- you can then have the recipe saved for later reference.

This should work: http://caloriecount.about.com/cc/recipe_analysis.php

is there a place to type in a recipe and have it calculate calories for you? I cannot find it.

I will give it a try. thanks!

Calorie king is a good place to start (www.calorieking.com). It's free and one of the bigger databases. You may have to do a little manual math, but that's definitely where I would start.