Do you track the oil for greasing the pan?
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CC2435
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I was making eggs in a muffin tin this morning, and realized I didn't know how to track the coconut oil I greased the pan with. Does this make any difference? Do you bother even tracking it if carbs are the important things to track?
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Some people track calories and carbs. I personally am not tracking calories at all right now because the weight is coming off without tracking, but when I was, I log half a Tbsp of olive oil or butter or whatever I used.0
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I usually use 1tbsp of butter to cook my eggs. I log the butter. What I haven't quite figured out is when I cook them in bacon fat. For example, this morning I had 3 strips of bacon with my eggs and I cooked the eggs in the bacon grease. Besides being incredibly yummy and filling I don't really know how to log the calories.
I try not to get too obsessive on the minutiae preferring instead to focus on the big picture. I look at my MFP food diary as more or less a general guide on how I'm doing day to day. So, if it says I had 1300 Calories for the day I assume that it's somewhere below my 1800 allotment for the day. I don't worry if it isn't exactly accurate. I've done that game before and it can drive me nuts.0 -
I was making eggs in a muffin tin this morning, and realized I didn't know how to track the coconut oil I greased the pan with. Does this make any difference? Do you bother even tracking it if carbs are the important things to track?
If you're putting enough that upon melting it would be enough to actually pool in the bottom of the pan I would definitely count it since I am a calorie counter. If it's so little that it wouldn't pool in the pan, id just skip it.0 -
I count it.0
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I would for sure count, but I use the spray oil and just put a spray for my eggs so that's 0 for me0
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I would very roughly count it.0
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Sunny_Bunny_ wrote: »I was making eggs in a muffin tin this morning, and realized I didn't know how to track the coconut oil I greased the pan with. Does this make any difference? Do you bother even tracking it if carbs are the important things to track?
If you're putting enough that upon melting it would be enough to actually pool in the bottom of the pan I would definitely count it since I am a calorie counter. If it's so little that it wouldn't pool in the pan, id just skip it.
This. If it's just a cursory smear, I wouldn't worry over it. If it's enough to pool, def count it.0 -
daylitemag wrote: »I usually use 1tbsp of butter to cook my eggs. I log the butter. What I haven't quite figured out is when I cook them in bacon fat. For example, this morning I had 3 strips of bacon with my eggs and I cooked the eggs in the bacon grease. Besides being incredibly yummy and filling I don't really know how to log the calories.
I try not to get too obsessive on the minutiae preferring instead to focus on the big picture. I look at my MFP food diary as more or less a general guide on how I'm doing day to day. So, if it says I had 1300 Calories for the day I assume that it's somewhere below my 1800 allotment for the day. I don't worry if it isn't exactly accurate. I've done that game before and it can drive me nuts.
I would think if you logged your bacon, then it will count that fat for when you make your eggs too. If it's all logged under one meal, or even the same day, should it be counted already?0 -
I don't think I'm going to count the fat. I'm eating a HFLC so I should be just conerned with keeping my carbs low, right?0
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I don't think I'm going to count the fat. I'm eating a HFLC so I should be just conerned with keeping my carbs low, right?
I count calories too since I'm really close to my weight loss goal.
So that just depends on you.
I would seriously just decide if it's an insignificant amount or not... Does it pool in the bottom of the pan? Yes? Then between 6 muffin cups, that's probably a good Tbs of butter and 100 calories. If you're eating more than one of the eggs a day, it can add up0 -
I don't think I'm going to count the fat. I'm eating a HFLC so I should be just conerned with keeping my carbs low, right?
I would say: worry about your carb goal first, then hit your protein goal, then the rest should be fat. See how you do for a few weeks. If you are not losing any weight, then go back to counting calories too to see if you are way over.0 -
I would think if you logged your bacon, then it will count that fat for when you make your eggs too. If it's all logged under one meal, or even the same day, should it be counted already?
Nope. The bacon grease that cooks off is not something normally consumed, so you have not yet counted it. (FWIW, this is one of the "I'm eating within my calories and still not losing" signs of what is going wrong in another thread I saw recently.)
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I would think if you logged your bacon, then it will count that fat for when you make your eggs too. If it's all logged under one meal, or even the same day, should it be counted already?
Nope. The bacon grease that cooks off is not something normally consumed, so you have not yet counted it. (FWIW, this is one of the "I'm eating within my calories and still not losing" signs of what is going wrong in another thread I saw recently.)
Huh. I have wondered this, too, actually, if the fat that cooks off of bacon (or ground beef, like I was making tonight) is included and if you're then really getting fewer fat and calories if the fat is drained off.
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Fyi: the fat portions of bacon is an option to log on mfp. Is under "bacon grease". People use it to cook their veggies... I haven't needed any other types, but I'm sure they are there! Good luck!0
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I use a tablespoon of butter to make my omelets, and when I turn the omelet onto the plate there is little butter left in the pan. A tbsp of butter is 100 cals so I count it.0
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I count the butter I use to grease / fry, I then tip any that's left in the pan onto the eggs/meat I have just cooked...well, I have calculated it so I may as well eat it!0
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I cook eggs, veggies and just about everything with bacon grease and it's in the search engine as "bacon grease". I would just count one tbs for your eggs being cooked in it. I'd rather be over than under in my estimation but you really prob only used 1/2 tbs0
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I would think if you logged your bacon, then it will count that fat for when you make your eggs too. If it's all logged under one meal, or even the same day, should it be counted already?
Nope. The bacon grease that cooks off is not something normally consumed, so you have not yet counted it. (FWIW, this is one of the "I'm eating within my calories and still not losing" signs of what is going wrong in another thread I saw recently.)
Exactly right.0 -
I don't eat bacon very often, but I would have gotten that fat rendering thing completely wrong. I'm glad everyone had answers for me. What would we do without MFP?
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