question about crock pot meal

fishshark
fishshark Posts: 1,886 Member
edited November 2024 in Food and Nutrition
I am making a crock pot of bbq pulled chicken for my husband and I... if you were me how would you go about figuring out the calories. I am going to shred it after its cooking so i will have my 3oz portions, but what about the bbq sauce? I cook a lot of crock pot meals... roasts and what now.. how do you figure out calories consumed if weight usually happens before hand? thanks!

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  • SherryTeach
    SherryTeach Posts: 2,836 Member
    I add up everything that went into the crock pot (meat and sauce). Then when I portion it all out, I look to see how many servings I got and divide the total calories by that number.
  • fishshark
    fishshark Posts: 1,886 Member
    thank you! i figured that would be the way but didnt know for sure!
  • AbsoluteTara79
    AbsoluteTara79 Posts: 266 Member
    You can weigh everything before it goes in the pot. And then create a recipe that is as many servings as the total pot is grams. Then weigh what you serve yourself and if it's 100 grams, log 100 servings. You may lose a little serving due to liquids, but I consider that inaccurate logging insurance.
  • kristydi
    kristydi Posts: 781 Member
    edited June 2015
    AbsoluteTara79 wrote: »
    You can weigh everything before it goes in the pot. And then create a recipe that is as many servings as the total pot is grams. Then weigh what you serve yourself and if it's 100 grams, log 100 servings. You may lose a little serving due to liquids, but I consider that inaccurate logging insurance.


    I weigh the food after I cook it, and enter that number as servings. You can lose a lot of water in the cooking process, less so in a crock pot than baking or in an open pot on the stove, but still.
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