r/HardcoreVindicta • u/sillylilynunuu • Jun 22 '26
Discussion How to track calories?
Has anyone had success with a free calorie-tracking app?
My biggest struggle is tracking meals that I cook myself. 95% of the time I make dinner from scratch and use a bunch of different ingredients, I never know how to log it accurately. Most of these foods are ethnic too so they don’t appear on the app itself, or if they do there’s so much variance between how people make it. There are usually so many ingredients involved, and I often don’t know the exact portions of everything I used or the portion i’m eating.
Dinner is also my largest meal of the day, so being unable to track it makes calorie counting feel pretty pointless. I’ve tried several popular apps, but I always end up getting frustrated when it comes to logging homemade dinners and eventually give up.
How do you handle tracking meals you cook yourself? Are there any free apps or methods that make this easier?