Who Slate is for

Slate is a calorie journal for people who eat Indian food: home dal and roti, a canteen thali, a Swiggy order and chai, often all in the same week. These pages explain how to count each of them honestly, and where Slate helps.

Every number on these pages comes from the food pages in Calories in Indian food, which show their recipes, arithmetic and sources.

Pages in this section

• A calorie counter for Indian foodWhy calorie apps struggle with dal, roti and sabzi, what an honest number for Indian food needs, and how Slate counts by your katori, roti and oil.
• Calorie counting for vegetariansCounting calories and protein in vegetarian and Jain meals: dal, paneer, curd, chana and besan, with katori-by-katori numbers from IFCT 2017.
• Counting calories in home-cooked foodThree things decide the calories in home-cooked Indian food: your katori, your roti and your oil. How to measure each once, with numbers from IFCT 2017.
• Calories in restaurant and delivery foodWhy restaurant and delivery food has more calories than home food, with ranges for dal makhani, paneer, biryani and naan, and how to count an order.
• A calorie tracker you can write in HinglishWrite "2 roti aur ek katori dal" or "chai, kam cheeni" and get a number. How Slate reads Hinglish and Gujarati spellings, and what it does when it can't.
• A calorie tracker without login or adsSlate has no login, no ads and no tracking. What it stores, where (Mumbai, India), what it never collects, and how to export or delete everything.
• Counting calories on fasting daysFasting-day food like sabudana khichdi, kuttu puri and iftar snacks often has more calories than it looks. How to count it, with IFCT 2017 numbers.
• Calories in office canteen food and tiffinHow to count a canteen thali, a tiffin dabba and office chai: rotis, katoris of dal and sabzi, and the extra oil in canteen cooking, from IFCT 2017.