Not logging salad okay??
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Lettuce is something I never weigh and estimate at 1 cup or 2 cups, etc instead. I did weigh it long ago and quickly realized I didn't need to ever again lol.
I do log it though.0 -
I've always just done a rough estimate on salad since it is so low in calories. The big calories are in the dressing.0
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tincanonastring wrote: »My lunch salads are 450-515 calories, so I definitely log them! Just create the meal as others have suggested.
Yeah my salads are 480 cals. I always log it.
Of all raw vegetables????? I'm truly impressed. She said she logs her dressing separately.
My lunch salads range from about 325 to maybe 500 calories...but they usually include several ounces of meat and/or cheese, a full tablespoon of olive oil in the dressing, sometimes fruit or nuts or avocado or bacon or croutons...obviously all that stuff gets logged. And I, personally, log my vegetables in my salad as well, but I doubt my 11 calories of romaine and 7 calories of cucumbers and 4 calories of green peppers would send my efforts into the crapper if I didn't. I don't think anyone (including the OP) is disputing whether or not to log toppings, starchy vegetables, etc.
Exactly right. Everythng i put ON the salad, i log (dressing, cheese, meat, ect). I just haven't logged the veggies.
Not sure how many "servings" we make because we just dump and mix it into a giant glass bowl.
Next time it's made, I will try and track the cals the best i can
I just added up the veggie calories in the salad I ate for lunch today. Around 150 calories.0 -
I generally don't. I'll log the dressing but that's it. But what do I know, I've only lost 80 pounds since January 2015.0
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I would save it as a meal not a recipe then you can adjust things, like add or subtract or otherwise adjust ingredients if you need to.0
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tincanonastring wrote: »tincanonastring wrote: »My lunch salads are 450-515 calories, so I definitely log them! Just create the meal as others have suggested.
Yeah my salads are 480 cals. I always log it.
Of all raw vegetables????? I'm truly impressed. She said she logs her dressing separately.
My lunch salads range from about 325 to maybe 500 calories...but they usually include several ounces of meat and/or cheese, a full tablespoon of olive oil in the dressing, sometimes fruit or nuts or avocado or bacon or croutons...obviously all that stuff gets logged. And I, personally, log my vegetables in my salad as well, but I doubt my 11 calories of romaine and 7 calories of cucumbers and 4 calories of green peppers would send my efforts into the crapper if I didn't. I don't think anyone (including the OP) is disputing whether or not to log toppings, starchy vegetables, etc.
Exactly right. Everythng i put ON the salad, i log (dressing, cheese, meat, ect). I just haven't logged the veggies.
Not sure how many "servings" we make because we just dump and mix it into a giant glass bowl.
Next time it's made, I will try and track the cals the best i can
I just added up the veggie calories in the salad I ate for lunch today. Around 150 calories.
I took 15 seconds and fussed with just my recent entries for lunch...granted I don't know what veggies you have, but it took me 700 grams of raw, non-starchy vegetables (100 ea of lettuce, spinach, mushrooms, zucchini, cucumber, onion, green pepper) to get to 150 calories. That's like over a pound and a half of salad. That's like....an eff ton of salad. Yeah, if you're eating a garbage can full of salad you should probably go ahead and weigh and log that because that's going to make a big difference. But a 25 calorie side salad for dinner isn't going to make or break the average MFP user.
Don't get me wrong - I'm fully on the side of logging the salad. I just don't think it's productive to imply that the OP is possibly consuming hundreds of calories per day that she isn't logging. She's not.0 -
I regularly log my salads (usually some combination of raw greens, cabbage, cucumber, carrot, celery and tomatoes) and can easily have 130 -170 calories before I add dressing.0
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rosebarnalice wrote: »I regularly log my salads (usually some combination of raw greens, cabbage, cucumber, carrot, celery and tomatoes) and can easily have 130 -170 calories before I add dressing.
Honestly, what size bowl do you put that in??? I use a 5 cup sized tupperware and my 70 grams of romaine and 50 grams of cucumbers (totaling 20 calories on their own) are jammed in there so tightly that I usually end up dumping half of it on my desk while I'm mixing the dressing, and that's before I add anything else to it! Do you eat out of a Home Depot paint bucket? That's like 35 cups of salad! ETA: Maybe carrots have a lot more calories than I give them credit for - I hate carrots, I believe they're the devil's root, so I don't have a gauge on the calorie count.0 -
tincanonastring wrote: »tincanonastring wrote: »My lunch salads are 450-515 calories, so I definitely log them! Just create the meal as others have suggested.
Yeah my salads are 480 cals. I always log it.
Of all raw vegetables????? I'm truly impressed. She said she logs her dressing separately.
My lunch salads range from about 325 to maybe 500 calories...but they usually include several ounces of meat and/or cheese, a full tablespoon of olive oil in the dressing, sometimes fruit or nuts or avocado or bacon or croutons...obviously all that stuff gets logged. And I, personally, log my vegetables in my salad as well, but I doubt my 11 calories of romaine and 7 calories of cucumbers and 4 calories of green peppers would send my efforts into the crapper if I didn't. I don't think anyone (including the OP) is disputing whether or not to log toppings, starchy vegetables, etc.
Exactly right. Everythng i put ON the salad, i log (dressing, cheese, meat, ect). I just haven't logged the veggies.
Not sure how many "servings" we make because we just dump and mix it into a giant glass bowl.
Next time it's made, I will try and track the cals the best i can
I just added up the veggie calories in the salad I ate for lunch today. Around 150 calories.
I took 15 seconds and fussed with just my recent entries for lunch...granted I don't know what veggies you have, but it took me 700 grams of raw. non-starchy vegetables (100 ea of lettuce, spinach, mushrooms, zucchini, cucumber, onion, green pepper) to get to 150 calories. That's like over a pound and a half of salad. That's like....an eff ton of salad. Yeah, if you're eating a garbage can full of salad you should probably go ahead and weigh and log that because that's going to make a big difference. But a 25 calorie side salad for dinner isn't going to make or break the average MFP user.
Don't get me wrong - I'm fully on the side of logging the salad. I just don't think it's productive to imply that the OP is possibly consuming hundreds of calories per day that she isn't logging. She's not.
Yes, very close on the weight.
100g lettuce
50g spinach
100g carrots
100g tomato
100g cucumber
100g celery
50g onion
Not really a garbage can, but a bit more than a dinner side salad. Red onions and carrots are the two highest calorie per gram veggies in there, both of which the OP includes in her salad. It may not be a huge deal to you, but OP is eating 1200 calories a day (ran a quick search to verify). 50 calories of veggies is 4% of her total calorie allowance for the day. If I had that little margin for error, you can bet I'd be weighing everything, including the romaine.0 -
tincanonastring wrote: »tincanonastring wrote: »tincanonastring wrote: »My lunch salads are 450-515 calories, so I definitely log them! Just create the meal as others have suggested.
Yeah my salads are 480 cals. I always log it.
Of all raw vegetables????? I'm truly impressed. She said she logs her dressing separately.
My lunch salads range from about 325 to maybe 500 calories...but they usually include several ounces of meat and/or cheese, a full tablespoon of olive oil in the dressing, sometimes fruit or nuts or avocado or bacon or croutons...obviously all that stuff gets logged. And I, personally, log my vegetables in my salad as well, but I doubt my 11 calories of romaine and 7 calories of cucumbers and 4 calories of green peppers would send my efforts into the crapper if I didn't. I don't think anyone (including the OP) is disputing whether or not to log toppings, starchy vegetables, etc.
Exactly right. Everythng i put ON the salad, i log (dressing, cheese, meat, ect). I just haven't logged the veggies.
Not sure how many "servings" we make because we just dump and mix it into a giant glass bowl.
Next time it's made, I will try and track the cals the best i can
I just added up the veggie calories in the salad I ate for lunch today. Around 150 calories.
I took 15 seconds and fussed with just my recent entries for lunch...granted I don't know what veggies you have, but it took me 700 grams of raw. non-starchy vegetables (100 ea of lettuce, spinach, mushrooms, zucchini, cucumber, onion, green pepper) to get to 150 calories. That's like over a pound and a half of salad. That's like....an eff ton of salad. Yeah, if you're eating a garbage can full of salad you should probably go ahead and weigh and log that because that's going to make a big difference. But a 25 calorie side salad for dinner isn't going to make or break the average MFP user.
Don't get me wrong - I'm fully on the side of logging the salad. I just don't think it's productive to imply that the OP is possibly consuming hundreds of calories per day that she isn't logging. She's not.
Yes, very close on the weight.
100g lettuce
50g spinach
100g carrots
100g tomato
100g cucumber
100g celery
50g onion
Not really a garbage can, but a bit more than a dinner side salad. Red onions and carrots are the two highest calorie per gram veggies in there, both of which the OP includes in her salad. It may not be a huge deal to you, but OP is eating 1200 calories a day (ran a quick search to verify). 50 calories of veggies is 4% of her total calorie allowance for the day. If I had that little margin for error, you can bet I'd be weighing everything, including the romaine.
Fair enough. I think that's more than just a bit more than a dinner side salad - I said in a post above that my typical lunch is a salad about 1/6th the total weight of yours and it packs a 5 cup tupperware FULL....so you've got probably 20 cups of salad there? erring on the lower side since admittedly mine is mostly lettuce - but I fully agree with you on the margin of error. Like I said, I've always been on the side of logging the salad and I log my own salads. I just still don't think most MFP users are regularly consuming 150 calories of raw vegetables in one sitting.
Though, I do know carrots probably pack a bigger punch than most vegetables - I think they're gross and never ever eat them so I don't have a good mental picture on what a normal salad serving would be in terms of calorie count. So maybe that's my issue.0 -
tincanonastring wrote: »tincanonastring wrote: »tincanonastring wrote: »My lunch salads are 450-515 calories, so I definitely log them! Just create the meal as others have suggested.
Yeah my salads are 480 cals. I always log it.
Of all raw vegetables????? I'm truly impressed. She said she logs her dressing separately.
My lunch salads range from about 325 to maybe 500 calories...but they usually include several ounces of meat and/or cheese, a full tablespoon of olive oil in the dressing, sometimes fruit or nuts or avocado or bacon or croutons...obviously all that stuff gets logged. And I, personally, log my vegetables in my salad as well, but I doubt my 11 calories of romaine and 7 calories of cucumbers and 4 calories of green peppers would send my efforts into the crapper if I didn't. I don't think anyone (including the OP) is disputing whether or not to log toppings, starchy vegetables, etc.
Exactly right. Everythng i put ON the salad, i log (dressing, cheese, meat, ect). I just haven't logged the veggies.
Not sure how many "servings" we make because we just dump and mix it into a giant glass bowl.
Next time it's made, I will try and track the cals the best i can
I just added up the veggie calories in the salad I ate for lunch today. Around 150 calories.
I took 15 seconds and fussed with just my recent entries for lunch...granted I don't know what veggies you have, but it took me 700 grams of raw. non-starchy vegetables (100 ea of lettuce, spinach, mushrooms, zucchini, cucumber, onion, green pepper) to get to 150 calories. That's like over a pound and a half of salad. That's like....an eff ton of salad. Yeah, if you're eating a garbage can full of salad you should probably go ahead and weigh and log that because that's going to make a big difference. But a 25 calorie side salad for dinner isn't going to make or break the average MFP user.
Don't get me wrong - I'm fully on the side of logging the salad. I just don't think it's productive to imply that the OP is possibly consuming hundreds of calories per day that she isn't logging. She's not.
Yes, very close on the weight.
100g lettuce
50g spinach
100g carrots
100g tomato
100g cucumber
100g celery
50g onion
Not really a garbage can, but a bit more than a dinner side salad. Red onions and carrots are the two highest calorie per gram veggies in there, both of which the OP includes in her salad. It may not be a huge deal to you, but OP is eating 1200 calories a day (ran a quick search to verify). 50 calories of veggies is 4% of her total calorie allowance for the day. If I had that little margin for error, you can bet I'd be weighing everything, including the romaine.
Fair enough. I think that's more than just a bit more than a dinner side salad - I said in a post above that my typical lunch is a salad about 1/6th the total weight of yours and it packs a 5 cup tupperware FULL....so you've got probably 20 cups of salad there? erring on the lower side since admittedly mine is mostly lettuce - but I fully agree with you on the margin of error. Like I said, I've always been on the side of logging the salad and I log my own salads. I just still don't think most MFP users are regularly consuming 150 calories of raw vegetables in one sitting.
Though, I do know carrots probably pack a bigger punch than most vegetables - I think they're gross so I don't have a good mental picture on what a normal salad serving would be in terms of calorie count. So maybe that's my issue.
I weigh everything, so I have no idea how many cups are in there! Depends how tight you pack them, I guess. Twenty sounds about right due to the high volume lettuce and spinach. I agree, too, that most people are probably not eating that many calories in raw veggies, but this is a numbers game, so the more real data you have, the better your odds for success (I suspect that's why you log your salads).0 -
i had salad for lunch.
all of its logged
lol 0 -
I log all my fruits and vegetables, partly because it helps me track how many servings I've had that day. (Gotta get your 5+ a day!) But also because I like to track every single calorie.0
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I say log it.0
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carrots are 25 calories per cup shreaded0
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veggiecanner wrote: »carrots are 25 calories per cup shreaded
The more precise way to say this is carrots are 40 calories per 100 grams.0
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