Do I count calories from added bacon grease? Or just the bacon?
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I'm creating a recipe here on MFP so I can add it to my diary. My recipe (a breakfast casserole) has 2 pounds of bacon in it. I cook the bacon in a pan in the oven, chop it up, and add it to the casserole. I also take some of the grease that's in the pan and add that as well (yum!). When I create the recipe here on MFP, do I just count the 2 pounds of bacon, or do I count the bacon plus some bacon grease?
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Just the bacon, it's not grease from other bacon, is it?1
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I would add in 2 tbsp (or whatever amount) of bacon grease to the recipe if you are actually scooping some of the grease to add.2
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I'm creating a recipe here on MFP so I can add it to my diary. My recipe (a breakfast casserole) has 2 pounds of bacon in it. I cook the bacon in a pan in the oven, chop it up, and add it to the casserole. I also take some of the grease that's in the pan and add that as well (yum!). When I create the recipe here on MFP, do I just count the 2 pounds of bacon, or do I count the bacon plus some bacon grease?
If you're adding bacon grease, you should measure it out and add it...it's about 120 calories per Tbsp.2 -
TavistockToad wrote: »Just the bacon, it's not grease from other bacon, is it?
Nope. It's from the same bacon. That's why I'm thinking maybe just leave it at 2 pounds of bacon. But I do add a lot of the grease.0 -
TavistockToad wrote: »Just the bacon, it's not grease from other bacon, is it?
Nope. It's from the same bacon. That's why I'm thinking maybe just leave it at 2 pounds of bacon. But I do add a lot of the grease.
the calories for cooked bacon are going to assume that you're not eating the grease and that it will be cooked off...the calories for cooked bacon are just for the bacon itself...it would be much higher calorie if the grease was included in cooked bacon.5 -
cwolfman13 wrote: »TavistockToad wrote: »Just the bacon, it's not grease from other bacon, is it?
Nope. It's from the same bacon. That's why I'm thinking maybe just leave it at 2 pounds of bacon. But I do add a lot of the grease.
the calories for cooked bacon are going to assume that you're not eating the grease and that it will be cooked off...the calories for cooked bacon are just for the bacon itself...it would be much higher calorie if the grease was included in cooked bacon.
Log it as raw?6 -
did you weigh the whole piece of bacon before cooking it? did you add anything to it in the way of additional fats to start it off? If you cooked it on its own and you are referring to the liquids etc lost from the cooking then I think you probably need not account for that separately for your casserole. were you to use anything left, as in put it on a slice of bread then I would count it because it was separated from the original cooking.0
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You can log bacon grease it's already in If I use it I ad it in1
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cwolfman13 wrote: »TavistockToad wrote: »Just the bacon, it's not grease from other bacon, is it?
Nope. It's from the same bacon. That's why I'm thinking maybe just leave it at 2 pounds of bacon. But I do add a lot of the grease.
the calories for cooked bacon are going to assume that you're not eating the grease and that it will be cooked off...the calories for cooked bacon are just for the bacon itself...it would be much higher calorie if the grease was included in cooked bacon.
OK; I added the grease to the recipe. It added about 1,000 calories to the whole recipe, about 85 more calories per serving.
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TavistockToad wrote: »cwolfman13 wrote: »TavistockToad wrote: »Just the bacon, it's not grease from other bacon, is it?
Nope. It's from the same bacon. That's why I'm thinking maybe just leave it at 2 pounds of bacon. But I do add a lot of the grease.
the calories for cooked bacon are going to assume that you're not eating the grease and that it will be cooked off...the calories for cooked bacon are just for the bacon itself...it would be much higher calorie if the grease was included in cooked bacon.
Log it as raw?
Every package of bacon I've ever had states the serving and calories as "cooked slice"...0 -
Interesting. When I cook a few slices of bacon I usually use the bacon grease to fry my eggs in. Never thought about adding the extra calories since it came from the bacon that I'm consuming right then.0
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My first question is....please tell me its Turkey bacon???0
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And fyi for any of you reading this....any oil you put into the pan, spray that consists of calories etc, you must count that as calories. If you buy hamburger try turkey burger much healthier and very little grease.0
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Bleh. You will tear my lovely pig bacon out of my cold dead hands. Likewise my juicy beef burger.11
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kissedbythesunshine wrote: »Interesting. When I cook a few slices of bacon I usually use the bacon grease to fry my eggs in. Never thought about adding the extra calories since it came from the bacon that I'm consuming right then.
Every package of bacon I've ever seen represents the servings and calories for "cooked slices"...which would assume that some fat would be rendered off and not consumed...by not accounting for the fat separately with your eggs, you're consuming more calories than you think you are.3 -
And fyi for any of you reading this....any oil you put into the pan, spray that consists of calories etc, you must count that as calories. If you buy hamburger try turkey burger much healthier and very little grease.
Standard ground turkey is 93% lean and you can buy 93% ground beef also. So turkey does for sure mean less grease and beef.
However there is 99% lean ground turkey but it does not fry up like 93% as it is so lean, but it does work well for certain things.0 -
cwolfman13 wrote: »kissedbythesunshine wrote: »Interesting. When I cook a few slices of bacon I usually use the bacon grease to fry my eggs in. Never thought about adding the extra calories since it came from the bacon that I'm consuming right then.
Every package of bacon I've ever seen represents the servings and calories for "cooked slices"...which would assume that some fat would be rendered off and not consumed...by not accounting for the fat separately with your eggs, you're consuming more calories than you think you are.
Thanks for letting me know that. I will start counting the bacon grease too.1 -
My first question is....please tell me its Turkey bacon???And fyi for any of you reading this....any oil you put into the pan, spray that consists of calories etc, you must count that as calories. If you buy hamburger try turkey burger much healthier and very little grease.
omg stahp
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Mmmmm, bacon. I have never seen the cals on bacon pkgs listed as "cooked". I am in Canada. So maybe different labelling guidelines.2
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youngmomtaz wrote: »Mmmmm, bacon. I have never seen the cals on bacon pkgs listed as "cooked". I am in Canada. So maybe different labelling guidelines.
Same here. I live in a border city and when I buy bacon in the States it shows the cooked info, but in Canada it shows uncooked.1 -
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Turkey bacon is like non alcoholic beer.
I kid. I like turkey bacon, but it's NOT bacon.1 -
And fyi for any of you reading this....any oil you put into the pan, spray that consists of calories etc, you must count that as calories. If you buy hamburger try turkey burger much healthier and very little grease.
No. Ground turkey is too lean. I eat 80/20 ground beef. The only time I get the leaner stuff is if it's cheaper (sometimes it is), and then I need to add fat to the meal in some other form (butter, extra cheese, etc). Of course, I eat LCHF. Not all of us subscribe to the low fat way of going about things. But, yes, fat needs to be counted, if you are counting.
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cwolfman13 wrote: »kissedbythesunshine wrote: »Interesting. When I cook a few slices of bacon I usually use the bacon grease to fry my eggs in. Never thought about adding the extra calories since it came from the bacon that I'm consuming right then.
Every package of bacon I've ever seen represents the servings and calories for "cooked slices"...which would assume that some fat would be rendered off and not consumed...by not accounting for the fat separately with your eggs, you're consuming more calories than you think you are.
Depends on what country you live in. I'm assuming you're in the US as I recently learned that's how they do it there. In Canada, the nutritional information on a package of bacon includes all the calories from fat and does not assume you'll drain it (since it has no way of knowing how crispy you do or don't like your bacon - nor if you're going to use the fat to cook something else).1 -
kissedbythesunshine wrote: »Interesting. When I cook a few slices of bacon I usually use the bacon grease to fry my eggs in. Never thought about adding the extra calories since it came from the bacon that I'm consuming right then.
I've always done it like this too. Plus i get my bacon from the deli section or butcher which they put in a plain plastic bag, no nutritional label on it.0 -
Dangit I used to make asparagus and egg and bacon "salad" on WW and was like teehee look at all this bacon grease I get for free to dress the asparagus with. Dumb.
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I posted the below in a recent thread about bacon, but it is worth repeating for any new members who may not have seen it. It is important to check the nutrition label to know whether the information is for raw or cooked. In the US, I have only seen labels that provide information for the weight of a cooked slice, not the raw slice. A raw slice is generally considered to be about 1 ounce (28 grams); however, the thickness of the slices will vary, and the cooked weight will depend on how much water is evaporated and fat is rendered.
In the below side-by-side comparison of the USDA entries for raw bacon and pan-fried cooked bacon, note the protein per slice of raw versus cooked pan-fried is nearly the same (the difference results from the lab taking the average of a number of tests), whereas the Calories and fat grams are much lower. This indicates that the USDA labs are taking a 28g slice of raw bacon with 117 Calories, cooking it, draining the fat, and the result, on average, is an 11.5g slice of pan-fried cooked bacon with 54 Calories.
I noticed this two years ago, and I now drain away and save the rendered bacon fat. When I use it for cooking, I log the rendered fat in MFP as "Pork - Bacon, rendered fat, cooked (bacon drippings)."
Reference: USDA National Nutrient Database
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