I have to admit that I've never figured out the count for ground flax. I use the same count for meal as the one for seeds. But, I do know that 3/4 cup of seeds makes 1 cup of meal so the ground is less in carbs.

You should only buy refrigerated flax meal because the oil goes rancid very quickly. I buy seeds - which don't have to be refrigerated - and grind it as I need it.

To use the carb counter on this site, don't type in the whole name ingredient because databases are very picky about phrasing. I typed in "cottage" and came up with lots of cottage cheese options.

I have two fitday.com accounts. One personal and one for figuring out recipes. You can add custom ingredients. What I do is figure recipes out in the recipe account then transfer the information to the personal one so if I'm having a slice of Meatza, I don't have to figure out all the items that go into it individually. fitday.com is free.

Karen