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Picking out chicken from Thai curry

ztaylor205
ztaylor205 Posts: 5 Member
edited November 2024 in Food and Nutrition
My goal is to eat at least 150 grams of protein a day, without going over 1.8k calories. My school frequently has lunch seminars with Thai food, and in order to maximize the protein:calorie ratio, I pick chicken out of the curry and try to minimize how much sauce I eat (although there's still a fair amount that sticks to the chicken.)

There are a lot of entries for Thai curry, but I can't find any for chicken only: They seem to assume you're eating the whole thing. Any ideas on how to figure out the proper nutrition facts? My "solution" now is to enter about half of what I eat as a generic Thai curry (unfortunately the restaurant that caters this doesn't have nutrition facts online), and half as grilled chicken.

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  • daydreams_of_pretty
    daydreams_of_pretty Posts: 506 Member
    If it were me, I'd log the chicken as a stir-fried chicken, along with a second serving of curry sauce.
  • Ready2Rock206
    Ready2Rock206 Posts: 9,487 Member
    I would log the Thai curry with chicken and then a negative amount of curry sauce or Thai curry without chicken (sorry I'm not a big curry eater so I am not sure what all is in it). I don't think the app allows a negative serving but the web version does. This can be done any time you want to subtract something from what you've logged.
  • annette_15
    annette_15 Posts: 1,657 Member
    I would log the chicken seperately by oz and then log maybe 60ml of one of the highest calorie curry sauce in the database
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    ztaylor205 wrote: »
    My goal is to eat at least 150 grams of protein a day, without going over 1.8k calories. My school frequently has lunch seminars with Thai food, and in order to maximize the protein:calorie ratio, I pick chicken out of the curry and try to minimize how much sauce I eat (although there's still a fair amount that sticks to the chicken.)

    There are a lot of entries for Thai curry, but I can't find any for chicken only: They seem to assume you're eating the whole thing. Any ideas on how to figure out the proper nutrition facts? My "solution" now is to enter about half of what I eat as a generic Thai curry (unfortunately the restaurant that caters this doesn't have nutrition facts online), and half as grilled chicken.

    Sounds a good way to do it, but I would log the extra chicken as fried not grilled.
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