We track our finances (or try to) through Quicken or Microsoft Money. A service named The Daily Plate (launched this year) help us track what we eat, our calorie intake and how many calories we burn through exercise. They also offer a database of food items that you can search to find out the calories, fat content, carbs and protein they contain. See what my search for ham and cheese sandwich came up with.
I will actually have a homemade Croque Monsieur for lunch (french ham and asiago cheese if you wondered, 12 grain bread toasted, touch of butter).
Additionally The Daily Plate will make suggestions for healthy alternatives to what you currently eat.
The service is user friendly and currently free for basic use, registration is required.
On a lighter note Sam of Becks and Posh shows us today What the world Ate for a Week in a mosaic of Pictures, for your eyes only!?
Thanks to Lifehacker for bringing The Daily Plate to my attention.
Nutrition Recipe
Sugar 575gms/11/4lb salt 2tsp white cumin seeds 1tbsp br
I have been using “The Daily Plate” for roughly a week now and I have found it to be most helpful in my weight loss program; however, I came home from the gym today to log-in my food and physical activities and was unable to access the website. Upon further investigation using a google search, I stumbled upon the below article: you must cut and paste it into your address bar, it appears that “dietfacts.com” is taking some type of legal action against “The Daily Plate” for downloading information from their website “dietfacts.com”, to use on “The Daily Plate” website. My issue w/this is that if their “dietfacts.com’s” purpose for their website is the same as “The Daily Plates” purpose; which should be to assist those who are overweight to loose weight; than what is the problem. People are so fickle and selfish with their motives for doing things until it is unbelieveable. I just hope that the website “The Daily Plate”, will be back up soon, I was really getting used to using them as an intricate tool in my weight loss program, and for someone like me who does not have a lot of money to pay for the services that they offer for free is very important to me, I wish there was some way that I could contact them and express to them how important their service is to me and to others like myself who struggle w/their weight.
Thank you,
ccamp7711
http://calorielab.com/news/2006/07/24/more-cowbell-diet-web-site-the-daily-plate-caught-borrowing-calorie-data/