pintlar wrote:
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I am denser than the average bear. Rather than use the food
companion, I can just go to the USDA website and use the straight
data.
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How about a link? I am also an independent and I counted points
differently than a friend who uses a WW computer regarding a 'Cup of
Soup'. He came up with '1', and I count it as 4.1.


I don't use the USDA directly though I do beleive they do have a searchable
database. I enter the recipes I use into Living Cookbook. That software got
its food database from USDA.