How do you log Marinade?

SeanD2407

How do you log marinade. When I marinade chicken for the week, i'll use the entire bottle. But obviously plenty of marinade is left over once I pull out the chicken dispose of it.

Is there a tip to marinading chicken if its 15 calories a serving... how many servings probably get absorbed by the chicken breast.

cwolfman13

I never bothered with that kind of minutia. The calories from a marinade are going to be pretty negligible in regards to what actually sticks to the chicken. Don't let perfection be the enemy of good, or good enough.

joyanna2016

I don't count it either.

nanastaci2020

I'll generally log something to account for a small portion of it. I'll make a marinade for cooking jerk chicken for example. And assume about 30% of the calories gets taken in/cooked/eaten with the 3-4 pounds of chicken cooked and factor out 'my' bit of that. This particular marinade is made with a variety of spices, some brown sugar, pineapple juice, lemon or lime juice, onion. So its not high calorie, but its not next to none either.

SuzySunshine99

If you want to be exact about it, you could weigh the marinade before and after and assume the difference is what was absorbed into the chicken.