Homemade Breaded and fried chicken

liftorgohome

Just a little rant here. I picked home made breaded chicken and it has 170 calories for one piece. Then if I pick home made breaded chicken pieces then it's like 80 calories. WTF chicken is chicken. A lot of the foods you have to enter the exact brand, how it's cooked, etc. and even then there are multiple ones to pick from.

mohamedahmed07

Welcome to myfitnesspal

SoulRadiation

It's kind of a pain, and I resisted logging my food for a while because I found it irritating. I think it helps, though. I like to use the scanning function when I can because it seems to work so much faster. Sometimes I'll pick food just because I know I can scan it and not have to go looking for it (lol).

I'm sure it's not perfect, but you could probably just scan the ingredients if you're baking something and then adjust the portion size to a reasonably close guess.

I have not gotten into actually weighing my food yet. I think if I need to start doing that I'll figure it all out one day...weigh a bunch of chicken and steak and pork chops and things and match it up with my Tupperware containers...then just repeat my recipes.

The duplicates in the food database can make it pretty confusing, too.

Sunna_W

I think it's assumed that pieces don't contain skin or fat. Therefore they are less calories. That said - if I am going to eat home made fried chicken I am not going to worry about the calories! Really...

If you really want to know the calories of something, try to look it up in the USDA data base:
https://ndb.nal.usda.gov/ndb/foods/show/900?manu=&fgcd=&ds=

Chef_Barbell

Use the recipe builder. Those entries are user generated and can be anything.

TavistockToad

Use your own recipe for homemade breaded chicken if you are making it yourself...

liftorgohome

Chef_Barbell wrote: »

Use the recipe builder. Those entries are user generated and can be anything.

I didn't know I could do this. I will have to figure it out. Thanks

kimny72

tjkita wrote: »

Just a little rant here. I picked home made breaded chicken and it has 170 calories for one piece. Then if I pick home made breaded chicken pieces then it's like 80 calories. WTF chicken is chicken. A lot of the foods you have to enter the exact brand, how it's cooked, etc. and even then there are multiple ones to pick from.

Most entries have been entered by other users. Those two users could have breaded the chicken differently or used a different binding agent. One could have been dark meat and one light meat. One could have left the skin on and another could have removed the skin.

That's why you don't use other people's vague entry. Log the chicken using a USDA entry by weight. Log the egg. Log the bread crumbs using the brand. Once you are logging for awhile the stuff you eat often is right there in your Recent list and you don't have to search through the whole database. Easy peasy

ASKyle

Weigh your ingredients and log them.

This goes for everything you eat.

GottaluvFood

Actually I choose MFP 'cuz we can enter our own recipes. I mostly cook/eat from scratch. A tad confusing a first, but easy enough when I figured it all out.

I like MFP telling me the nutrients I'm eating, too. At 51, I'm just a bit more concerned about that than I was a few decades ago.

lynn_glenmont

kimny72 wrote: »

tjkita wrote: »

Just a little rant here. I picked home made breaded chicken and it has 170 calories for one piece. Then if I pick home made breaded chicken pieces then it's like 80 calories. WTF chicken is chicken. A lot of the foods you have to enter the exact brand, how it's cooked, etc. and even then there are multiple ones to pick from.

Most entries have been entered by other users. Those two users could have breaded the chicken differently or used a different binding agent. One could have been dark meat and one light meat. One could have left the skin on and another could have removed the skin.

That's why you don't use other people's vague entry. Log the chicken using a USDA entry by weight. Log the egg. Log the bread crumbs using the brand. Once you are logging for awhile the stuff you eat often is right there in your Recent list and you don't have to search through the whole database. Easy peasy

one "piece" could be 50 grams and another "piece" could be 120 grams.

JeromeBarry1

tjkita wrote: »

Chef_Barbell wrote: »

Use the recipe builder. Those entries are user generated and can be anything.

I didn't know I could do this. I will have to figure it out. Thanks

Use the old recipe tool. Thank me later.