Counting baby back ribs question..

MDC2957

So this time I weighed the portion of ribs I'm going to eat. Half rack of raw baby back pork ribs was 1 lb 9 oz (including the bones). There's 7 ribs. Seems that a serving of ribs is 4 oz or 2 ribs. So that means 7 ribs would be 14 oz. Does that mean that the rib bones weigh 11 oz? I'll certainly weigh the bones after I eat the meat, but I imagine like everything else that gets cooked, the weight of the bones will probably change too.. hmm....

cmriverside

Where are you acquiring the nutrition information?

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cmriverside

I would consider that weight to be only for the unprepared portion of just the meat...I would just call it two ribs and not worry a whole lot about the bones, since baby back ribs are pretty uniform in size. Two ribs for 250 calories is close enough. . Obviously the one end is smaller, less bone and the bigger end has bigger bones. At least that's my recollection.

Some things you just have to say, "Close enough." You're not eating ribs every day, right?

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cmriverside

I think you're close enough. I guess all the time and still lost my 80 pounds and have kept it off. It's more about being mostly consistent and adjusting over time.

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cwolfman13

Just find an entry for cooked babyback ribs and weigh them and then weigh the bones after and deduct. Calories are for the edible portion only. Otherwise just give it your best estimate...it's really not that important in the grand scheme provided, as you say, this isn't an everyday thing.

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