How to do the calories for my roast chicken + bone broth

girlviernes

I've started to make roast chicken and bone broth in a crock pot, but I'm finding it tricky to sort out the calories, and I was hoping to get some helpful ideas.

What I am doing is buying a whole chicken with giblets. Then I take out the giblets and save for the bone broth later. I cook the chicken with some root veggies like potato, carrots, parsnips, and onion. So the end product is a cooked chicken, some veggies/starch, and liquid. The first time I did this I left the bones in and would reserve them as I ate the chicken. The second time I did my best to get most of the bones and a fair bit of chicken skin out when I first cooked it. I save the bones and as much of the chicken skin as I can for the broth.

Once I have two chickens worth of bones, skin, and giblets, I'll make the bone broth. My understanding is I can use the bones an additional time or two for more batches of broth as well.

So, what I am finding tricky is figuring out how many calories are in the chicken, the veggies & liquid, and then in the broth that I make later. Help!

KristyRunyon81

I'm not sure about the calorie part but from my experience, if you boil the bones for over an hour, they have given all they can give.

CyberTone

I would just rely on the non-asterisked entry.
Search for "soup stock home-prepared" and choose one of the non-asterisked entries, which are MFP-entered from the USDA National Nutrient Database.

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girlviernes

I guess one of my questions is when you are getting calorie information about a whole chicken, does it count the bones and giblets, or is it just the meat? When I'm building the recipe should I put the whole weight that I started with (the bird was weighed at 6.6 lbs), or try to subtract the bones and giblets?