Calories with frying?
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MostlyWater wrote: »If OP wants to eat it, eat it. Log it as a cheat meal or cheat day.
For the record, I wasn't raised eating fried foods. I don't even know how to fry anything. That doesn't make me a stick-in-the-mud.
I think people are responding less to your personal lack of interest in fried foods (we know people enjoy different things) than your recommendation that others skip them just because you don't care for them that much.
Eat what you like, just acknowledge that others are going to eat what they enjoy.5 -
MostlyWater wrote: »If OP wants to eat it, eat it. Log it as a cheat meal or cheat day.
For the record, I wasn't raised eating fried foods. I don't even know how to fry anything. That doesn't make me a stick-in-the-mud.
You come across as kind of bossy. Did you know that? You told the OP to eat the boiled ravioli instead of fried and now you are telling her how to log it. Cheating implies fried food is something to feel guilty for. I eat fried food within my calories and it is never cheating.
I wasn't raised eating fried food either. I was also raised in a mostly baconless world. All of those years wasted...
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MostlyWater wrote: »If OP wants to eat it, eat it. Log it as a cheat meal or cheat day.
For the record, I wasn't raised eating fried foods. I don't even know how to fry anything. That doesn't make me a stick-in-the-mud.
You come across as kind of bossy? Did you know that? You told the OP to eat the boiled ravioli instead of fried and now you are telling her how to log it. Cheating implies fried food is something to feel guilty for. I eat fried food within my calories and it is never cheating.
I wasn't raised eating fried food either. I also was raised in a mostly baconless world. All of those years wasted...
Yeah, people have provided really good suggestions to do what OP asked for help with (logging a decent estimate). Telling them to log it as a cheat day or a cheat meal doesn't make sense because OP is specifically doing this in the context of fitting it into their day and that is a perfectly valid approach.
Fried food can fit into specific calorie goals -- I did it while I was losing weight and I still do it now (because the "cheat day" concept, while fine for others, doesn't really work for me).
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janejellyroll wrote: »Yeah, people have provided really good suggestions to do what OP asked for help with (logging a decent estimate). Telling them to log it as a cheat day or a cheat meal doesn't make sense because OP is specifically doing this in the context of fitting it into their day and that is a perfectly valid approach.
Fried food can fit into specific calorie goals -- I did it while I was losing weight and I still do it now (because the "cheat day" concept, while fine for others, doesn't really work for me).
Besides it is the OP's diet. As long as she isn't harming herself somehow I don't care what she eats or how she logs it. It is none of my business.
On a personal note if I made a batch of fried ravioli and if I didn't have some I would not be a happy dieting camper and that is the kind of thing that has led me to some retaliatory eating in the past. Luckily with advanced notice most of us can make things fit if we want them bad enough.5 -
Log uncooked raviolis for the number you ate. Depending on how many you ate add 5 to 10g of flour, 5 to 10g of egg, 5 to 10g of canola or other oil... you won't be off by more than a couple of hundred calories! A small cutting error with your slice of cake will easily take care of that!
Unless you participate in quite a few birthdays every month, neither inaccuracy (the ravioli or the potentially shaky cake slice cutting) will matter in the context of the ~730,000 maintenance calories a mythical woman eats in a year!
Happy (son) Birthday!0 -
crazykatlady820 wrote: »How have I lived for almost 36 years and not had fried ravioli?! It sounds delicious!
They are really horrible and you should never try them. I will save you by eating them all myself.
We can't ask you to do that... pass the plate over here. Now let go... I said, let go!4 -
Yes but we all know your weakness now. Look at this nice cup of coffee. What do you want with ravioli when you could be drinking a hot cup of joe with an unknown amount of creamer in it?
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coooooooooooooofeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! <no creamer today ;-)>0
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Ahhhhhhh.... I love the uber supportive community here at MFP
Yes, the link to the toasted ravioli was correct. Yes, it is delicious. I only discovered it about 2 years ago and it's one son's favorite. He opted for it instead of being taken out for dinner. We serve with warmed pizza sauce for dipping. And it's always an entree at our house (I don't do that much work for appetizers lol)
And just to say it: I'm well aware there are many ways to handle situations with unhealthy foods. Avoiding them is one extreme. Ignoring the repercussions and eating however many I want is another way. Taking the time to fill in my knowledge gaps to help me make reasonable, sustainable choices is how I'm handling it now. So yes, I made a conscious choice to eat 3 fried ravioli.. and then finish it off with 2 boiled ones (another kid detests fried ravioli so I boil some on the side already).
Oh... we skipped cake. Smart kid asked for peach and blueberry cobbler. And I just might have some for breakfast...6 -
Ahhhhhhh.... I love the uber supportive community here at MFP
Yes, the link to the toasted ravioli was correct. Yes, it is delicious. I only discovered it about 2 years ago and it's one son's favorite. He opted for it instead of being taken out for dinner. We serve with warmed pizza sauce for dipping. And it's always an entree at our house (I don't do that much work for appetizers lol)
And just to say it: I'm well aware there are many ways to handle situations with unhealthy foods. Avoiding them is one extreme. Ignoring the repercussions and eating however many I want is another way. Taking the time to fill in my knowledge gaps to help me make reasonable, sustainable choices is how I'm handling it now. So yes, I made a conscious choice to eat 3 fried ravioli.. and then finish it off with 2 boiled ones (another kid detests fried ravioli so I boil some on the side already).
Oh... we skipped cake. Smart kid asked for peach and blueberry cobbler. And I just might have some for breakfast...
I like your style! (with the minor quibble about toasted ravioli being inherently "unhealthy"
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You know you are raising a kid right when he skips cake for a version of a pie.
Another Pie Victory!!3 -
i dont really care for ravioli myself, though ill eat it. but now what i really want are fried pirogis.
i think i know what im having saturday LOLOLOLOLOL0 -
callsitlikeiseeit wrote: »i dont really care for ravioli myself, though ill eat it. but now what i really want are fried pirogis.
i think i know what im having saturday LOLOLOLOLOL
Do you mean breaded & fried pierogies or fried in butter fried? I don't think I'm down with the former simply because the latter is so good (especially when you include sauteed onions and sour cream into the mix).1 -
Toasted raviolis are a big thing in the Saint Louis area. You can get them at a lot of restaurants as an appetizer, and they sell them frozen. They can be baked, or fried. Lots of yummy deliciousness. 1
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callsitlikeiseeit wrote: »i dont really care for ravioli myself, though ill eat it. but now what i really want are fried pirogis.
i think i know what im having saturday LOLOLOLOLOL
Do you mean breaded & fried pierogies or fried in butter fried? I don't think I'm down with the former simply because the latter is so good (especially when you include sauteed onions and sour cream into the mix).
im thinking fried in butter fried. and dipped in ranch.
guess i could have a salad on the side.
looks like ill be going to the 90 minute circuit training class saturday morning lololololololol0 -
emcclure013 wrote: »Toasted raviolis are a big thing in the Saint Louis area. You can get them at a lot of restaurants as an appetizer, and they sell them frozen. They can be baked, or fried. Lots of yummy deliciousness.
They're evil is what they are. So friggin' deliciously evil.0
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