Marinades

elliesmommfp

How do you calculate marinate calories when using it on food? Say a recipe for a marinade said that the marinade itself was 300 calories but you used about half it over 3 very large thick chicken breasts. Obviously most of it cooks off and not all of it soaks into the chicken. Am I putting to much thought into this? Or do you count marinade calories?

viccigb

LOl! I just posted something similar about and then read this. Hmmmmmm.

CADAVER0USB0N3S

You could use the recipe calculator. Thats what I do whenever I make something homemade. Better safe than sorry right!

Alluminati

Too much thought. Divide it by three, tack on an extra 50 for each breast for wiggle room, and call it a day.

blankiefinder

elliesmommfp wrote: »

How do you calculate marinate calories when using it on food? Say a recipe for a marinade said that the marinade itself was 300 calories but you used about half it over 3 very large thick chicken breasts. Obviously most of it cooks off and not all of it soaks into the chicken. Am I putting to much thought into this? Or do you count marinade calories?

The only parts that would 'cook off' is water through evaporation. However, if you are discarding marinade after marinating, or leaving most of the sauce, then you could reduce the calories from the sauce.

missiontofitness

Punch your recipe into the recipe builder to get the calorie content for it, weigh the marinade, and then weigh what is leftover in the bag after. Subtract that from your recipe weight, and boom.