My husband pointed out a recipe in last week’s paper to me and asked if I would try it. It was for minestrone soup. I love minestrone soup, especially the stuff at my favorite restaurant, Mama Mia’s. The Olive Garden minestrone isn’t bad either.
Anyway, the recipe did not include nutritional information and I was curious about that. After making it today and seeing how great it turned out, I was even more curious about what I had just consumed.
I found a website where you can plug in all the ingredients you used in a recipe and how many servings it made and then a full list of nutrients and values is output. (I was happy to discover that there were only 217 calories per serving in that yummy soup!)
Check it out here: http://recipes.sparkpeople.com/recipe-calculator.asp
Now, the funny thing about this particular recipe is that although the nutritional information wasn’t printed with the recipe in the paper, there was a mention of it on the paper’s website that I didn’t notice until after I had already prepared the meal and used the calculator at the link above. If you’re interested in the minestrone recipe (there are seasonal vegetable variations and I actually combined portions of the summer and fall versions because I had broccoli and zucchini on hand in addition to the carrots, celery and onion that the recipe called for) check it out here: http://www.usaweekend.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2010100224005
