Meal Planning

The Meal Planning Calculator

This Calculator was developed to use food groups to meet your nutritional needs. However, this tool can count grams of protein, fat, and carbohydrates.  

 

Complete your Nutritional Needs. To use the Food Planning Calculator, you need to know your calorie, protein, fat, and carbohydrate intake. Design your food plan based on the Food Groups and the number of servings. Add or modify the number of servings in the food groups in the left column until the percentages and calories meet your needs. Click "Calculate" to analyze the results and " Reset" to start over. The colors are those used by the Food Pyramid.

Food Groups         Number of Servings Bread/Starch Vegetable Fruit Milk, Skim/Non-fat Meat/Protein, low to med. fat Fat                         Free Foods          Combination Foods

Nutrients Grams Calories Percent Carbohydrate Protein Fat Total: 100

Tips.  Need Protein. Choose from the Meat/Meat Alternative or Milk Group. The Bread and Vegetable Groups have a small amount of protein. Need Carbohydrate. Choose from the Fruit, Bread, and Vegetable Group. The Milk Group also has carbohydrates. No carbohydrates in Meats and Fats. Need Fat. Choose from the Fat and Meat Groups. The bread group has a trace amount of fat.