Does any one know of a way to get AFFORDABLE nutrition facts calculated? I am specifically interested in getting the nutrition facts of my No Fail Sugar Cookies that I sell. I found expensive programs on the net, but would like to avoid spending hundreds of dollars! THank you in advance for offering any help!

Are you doing this as "official information" or just casual information that you'd share with your customers if they asked?

You could calculate it yourself on a long nothing-to-do day. Whip out your calculator, a notebook, and a pencil as well as your old Algebra textbook! You'd need a scale too. . .

I do not know what the terms are at the place I will mention, but I know that if you look up recipes at

www.recipezaar.com

and then go to the print version, they list the nutritional information on the right side of the page.

I am a member there but never submitted a recipe, so I do not know if you have to provide that information or if their system calculates it for you.

Try doing some research on it, then if you do not mind, get back to us with the result.

Theresa

There are a few recipe programs that can provide a nutritional analysis. They will get you fairly close. In most cases, the only time nut. labels are required, is when you state some particular health claim. Fat free, low fat, etc. The ingredients have to be listed on the label.

Mastercook is a very inexpensive program, and includes nutritional
analysis.

You might also contact the county extension service or the dept of Agriculture. With your recipe, they may be able to produce the label.

Try fitday.com they list the nutritional info for tons of things and you may just need to calculate a bit your selfe depending on the sizes and whatnot.

Here's a site that I use ALLLLL the time to calculate nutrition info for my recipes (for myself...I'm counting every crumb and morsel that goes into my mouth..lol).

http://www.nutritiondata.com

You can enter (and KEEP) the nutrition info for all of the basics that you keep in your pantry. When you've made your list, just enter the amounts of each ingredient called for in the recipe, enter the number of servings and it calculates the nutrition info for you and you can even get a printable lable with the info on it. It takes a bit of time initially to get everything into your pantry but well worth it.

hth
Vanessa

Thank you to all of you who offered such great information. This forum (and all of you) truley offer such a great weath of knowledge. Kudos to you all!