Do u log your cooking oil?

joowelz

Say you sautee up some asparagus and parsnips with olive oil for dinner and use over 3 tbls of oil in the pan. When you log your meal, do you log 3 tbls of oil?

Grammytryingtogetfit

Yes, I do anyway, those calories add up.

RuNaRoUnDaFiEld

I do but I'd never use that much.

1 teaspoon of oil in a non stick pan is fine.

pinuplove

Depends. If there isn't any visible oil left in the pan, yes, absolutely. If there is obviously oil left in the pan, I guesstimate and try err on the high side. I'm sure you could weigh the oil before and weigh what was left after to be more precise but I don't need that kind of precision in my logging at this point.

sammyliftsandeats

Yep!

cwolfman13

Of course...why wouldn't you? each Tbsp has 120 calories. Why wouldn't those calories count?

joowelz

I guess I was hoping the calories would be burned away in the pan!!! Lol @cwolfman13

cwolfman13

joowelz wrote: »

I guess I was hoping the calories would be burned away in the pan!!! Lol @cwolfman13

Nope...that would be nice, but nope...

Ready2Rock206

Of course. But then you'll also learn you can use a lot less oil than you've probably been using.

avskk

Yep, I do... which is why more often than not I use a quick (~1 second) spritz of cooking spray for an entire meal. It's still oil, and it still has calories, but so few I figure it's fine. Anything more than that -- even simply a longer spritz of the cooking spray, or the same small spritz but in a single serving instead of a meal -- gets weighed and logged.

rhiawiz57

yeah that seems like a really large amount of oil just to sautee. thus, you should definitely count it. it's on your food, so it's in your mouth. LOL

cruzeiro_96

Say i use 3 Tbsp to cook smthng , i may log only 1 as some of it always stays on the pan. I started adding a little water now, so food won't stick

SmartAlec03211988

At 120 calories per 15ml, why wouldn't I?

JaxxieKat

It's rare for me to use anything besides nonfat spray or water, but when I use oil I log it.

Alatariel75

Good lord, that's a lot of oil.

I'd absolutely log it. Oil is pretty much the most calorie dense food there is. That's enough oil to completely blow your deficit if not logged.

Strawblackcat

I don't know that I would call a cooking method that uses 3tbsp of oil a saute. That sounds more like a shallow pan-fry to me.

But, yeah, I log my oil. 1tbsp = 120 calories, so not logging it would be like not logging one of the sliced of bread on a sandwich.

Lounmoun

I would log at least some of it. Is there a bunch left in the pan or does the pan at the end or not? If it is not in the pan then it is in your food. It did not evaporate.
I would also try using less oil. Try 1 T.