Do I count calories from added bacon grease? Or just the bacon?

suzievv

BHFF wrote: »

My first question is....please tell me its Turkey bacon???

Nope. It's the real deal.

WinoGelato

BHFF wrote: »

My first question is....please tell me its Turkey bacon???

That would be a sad breakfast casserole. What's wrong with regular bacon?

hollyrayburn

Turkey bacon is like non alcoholic beer.

I kid. I like turkey bacon, but it's NOT bacon.

tlflag1620

BHFF wrote: »

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.

SusanMFindlay

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).

Christine_72

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.

MelanieCN77

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.

CyberTone

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.

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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