Logging Slow-Cooker Pork Shoulder

gallicinvasion

Hello friends! I'm having trouble figuring out calories for a serving of this slow-cooker recipe.

Basically its a 5lb bone-in pork shoulder with a spice rub, onions, jalapenos, and citrus juices. I added all the other ingredients and amounts to the recipe creator on MFP, but I'm not sure what to do with the pork.

It's obviously not 5 lbs of pure pork shoulder. I would estimate 4lbs, but once it's cooked in the slow cooker, it's going to weigh differently, right? And I can't find a reliable estimate for pork shoulder per gram or ounce online or on the MFP database. Or if there is one, I don't know which one it is.

Anyone have any ideas? I suppose I can weigh each portion of pork I eat, but I was hoping for a way to get a caloric amount for each equal serving of the recipe (it is supposed to serve 10) so I can be more exact.

gallicinvasion

Here's the recipe in case it helps:

1 tbsp dried oregano
1 tbsp salt
2 tsp cumin
1 tbsp black pepper
1 tbsp olive oil
200g yellow onion
14g jalapeno
4 tbsp fresh orange juice
2 tbsp fresh lime juice
5 lb bone-in pork shoulder (or 4 lb pork shoulder with no bone)

Basically after the bulk of the cooking, you're supposed to skim the fat off, shred it with forks, and reduce the liquid on the stove and pour it back over the meat.

MsArriabella

I'd probably build a recipe for the sauce/rub, then log plain pork shoulder and the sauce separately when I ate it.

gallicinvasion

MsArriabella wrote: »

I'd probably build a recipe for the sauce/rub, then log plain pork shoulder and the sauce separately when I ate it.

That's a good idea. Divide the sauce into the amount of servings I'm going to split it in, then my only job left is to understand how many calories are in pulled pork on its own.

cmriverside

Yeah, weigh the cooker. Write down the weight.

Use the recipe builder ingredients raw.

Cook the food. Weigh the food and cooker when it's cooked and subtract the weight of the cooker. (In other words, just weigh the entire recipe when it's cooked.) That is the weight of your "recipe." Just divide the portion you eat by the weight of your recipe when you eat it.

OR just enter 1g into the Portion on the recipe, then use XXX number of grams per each serving you eat.

happytree923

Weight and record the weight of the pork shoulder, cook pork the way you're planning to, then after it's done take out the bone and weigh it. Build your recipe using the raw weight of the pork shoulder (make sure you're using a raw entry not cooked) minus the weight of the bone.