How do I weigh/measure this? ( chicken drumsticks )

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abrazame
abrazame Posts: 61 Member
in Food and Nutrition
I am having boiled chicken drumsticks ( sounds gross but it's pretty good).
Everywhere I look ( including through the mfp food search) measures the amount of calories in an individual drumstick. I usually use this no problem, but today since the chicken is being boiled it will be falling off the bone. So I need to measure it in ounces on my food scale. I found some stuff online but dont know if it's accurate. I'm new to weighing all of my food. Before I would just use the predetermined measurements on myfp. I had great success but this time around I want to be as accurate as possible to see if it makes a difference.

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  • jemhh
    jemhh Posts: 14,261 Member
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    Look it up on the USDA website.
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
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    Weigh your meat, pick a usda cooked dark meat entry.
  • shadowfax_c11
    shadowfax_c11 Posts: 1,942 Member
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    Weigh the chicken before cooking. Set the bones aside and anything you don't eat. Weigh that. Subtract from the starting weight. The result is your entry. Use the USDA dark meat chicken entry.

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