Meats/Fish/Chicken

VanillaBeanSeed

I find the hardest things to track on here are raw meats like fish, chicken, beef, and pork! They're are so many different enteries and they are all so different in themselves! AHHHH

I also find it hard to distinguish what cuts of meat I have?

I buy a steak.. it says.. "steak" LOL MFP lists all diffeent types of cuts.. round, sirloin, bottom..


Any thoughts on this issue? How you deal with it? Etc?

55in13

Your ticker indicates you are doing a pretty good job figuring it out.

Where are you shopping? I always see an indication of what cut it is. Mostly it is about the fat content and whether or not you eat the fat. Here is a page with a few meat cuts and calories:

http://www.freedieting.com/tools/calories_in_meat.htm

So if I was guessing, I would just think about whether it was fatty or lean and pick either a fatty or lean cut that is likely roughly correct. Even if you know what cut it is, the numbers are still only roughly correct as it varies from one sample to the next.

Francl27

There's always a ton of guessing when it comes to steaks. Even if I get a new york strip cut, I know there might be less fat on that particular one (or I cut it out) etc. I try to buy from places that put the cut on the package at least though.

I actually haven't had pork in 6 months...

CookNLift

Ask the butcher (even at shop rite) if they can trim the fat / bones for you (unless you, like me, like having the bone on the meat) and weigh out the steak in grams (or ounces) and go off of the cut listed on the tag, or what the butcher tells you it is.

As far as chicken / fish, just weigh them in as their weight and input it in generic / raw meat (I tend to scan the barcode, which works 9/10 times, and cross reference it with actual data for caloric quantitites on websites on the interwebz.

This is what I got from a nutritionist buddy of mine.

"All white fish and shellfish count as 35 calories per ounce, and salmon counts as 55 calories per ounce. "