Calories in marinades?

butterfli7o

How do you measure the calories for food sitting in marinades? Let's say my husband has half a dozen chicken breasts soaking in a bag of marinade (usually mojo, Italian dressing or BBQ) but obviously it doesn't all get soaked up and whatever is left is discarded. So besides weighing my chicken, how many calories should I use for the marinade it sat in?

cmriverside

Weigh the bag with the marinade, then weigh it again after you take the chicken out, divide the amount of the marinade that is gone by the number of chicken servings. (?)

I mean, I guess it would matter to me if the marinade had lots of oil or sugar - otherwise I'd not worry about it a whole lot.

melissa6771

That's probably the only thing I don't bother logging. Most of the marinade stays in the bag/container, more burns off when you cook the food. Most of my marinated stuff I cook on the grill. But, if I were to log it, I would do what the poster above said.

cwolfman13

I never bothered getting into that kind of mind numbing minutia...it's pretty negligible.

JustAnotherOneOfThoseGirls

guess it, it doesn't really matter unless it's a really fatty/oily/sugary etc. marinade, for a chicken breast, about 1 teaspoon, or 5g, would stick to the breast. Don't beat yourself up over a little seasoning

Sharon_C

I don't worry about it

Rabid_Hamster

cmriverside wrote: »

Weigh the bag with the marinade, then weigh it again after you take the chicken out, divide the amount of the marinade that is gone by the number of chicken servings. (?)

I mean, I guess it would matter to me if the marinade had lots of oil or sugar - otherwise I'd not worry about it a whole lot.

^This. Assuming you've created a recipe or logged all the ingredients in the marinade, first

murp4069

I just log however much I actually put in the bag, even though I know most of it gets discarded. Most of my marinades don't have many calories anyway so in the scheme of an entire meal adding all that marinade to my calorie count doesn't add much. I prefer to overestimate my calories a bit than underestimate.

If I were using a higher calorie marinade like BBQ sauce, I think @cmriverside has a great idea with weighing before and after.

JeromeBarry1

To get an idea, look at the web site of a restaurant that offers a similar dish and see if they describe the nutrition of the marinated chicken.

rbfdac

I don't log it at all.

sllm1

I don't log marinades.

butterfli7o

This is what I thought. Thank you all.