How do you typically hand BBQ sauce on your meat?

Poobah1972

Just curious how you account for calories from BBQ sauce on your Grilled meats?

For the longest time, I just throw the meat on the grill... And let it cook as per usual. Then add however much BBQ sauce you want and continue grilling.

When completed I just bring it all in the house and I measure my meat with BBQ sauce on it... And only log it as the meat. I figure in most cases the meat is more calories then the sauce anyway. (Specially cause I use Hughes sugar free variety).

Beside how practical is it really to even try and measure the BBQ sauce before hand, cause if your like me a good bit drip down the grill and or sticks to the grill?

SuzySunshine99

If you did want to account for it, I think the easiest way would be to weigh the container of sauce before and after you use it and calculate the difference.
I'd then log all of it that you used. You can't measure what sticks to the grill any more than you can subtract the fat that renders out as you cook.
If it were me, and I wanted to log accurately, I would do my best to count it, and not just ignore it. But, I also use a non-sugar free sauce that probably has more significant calories than yours.

goal06082021

If it's something I'm making, I account for the sauce in the recipe and figure it's better for my current goals to overestimate calories in a dish than underestimate them. That or I'll enter the sauce as a separate recipe and log what I use as best I can.

If I'm eating bbq from somewhere, I generously guesstimate how much is on the meat and again, err on the side of overestimating.

callsitlikeiseeit

for MY purposes, i simply add about 1-2 TBSP of sauce into my diary for it. But I've been doing this a long time.

i figure thats probably about how much I am getting. but my husband will only put a thin bit of glaze on my meat, and i will add a bit more once on my plate, and i can weigh that out in grams if I want or feel the need to that day.

YellowD0gs

Shoot the UPC label and enter an estimate of how much sauce you applied. Some of it will drip off, some of it will stick to the plate, some of it will desiccate and cook to a delicious addition to your BBQ. Then relax, worrying any more about calories takes the fun out of BBQ.

westrich20940

Honestly I'd just eyeball how much you think is on the serving of meat you're eating. The odds of you being *significantly* off by an amount that would have any effect on your overall calorie intake is very low.

rheddmobile

It depends a lot on what’s in your sauce. I’m a diabetic and a large amount of sugar-heavy sauce will spike my blood glucose. If it’s mainly mustard or vinegar based, it’s not a problem.

I usually just guess.

wunderkindking

I am a 'add a couple of tablespoons to my diary' person.

But I do account for it because much like salad dressing stuff adds up, depending on the sauce. Some sauces (the regular/not sugar free sweet ones) have more calories in two tbsp than the chicken it's going on does.

nossmf

If it's something I dip into (i.e. fries in ketchup), I don't bother recording it. If it's a sauce my meat marinates in for a while (i.e. my crock pot honey soy chicken), then I measure out everything before mixing, calculate my percentage of the total, and add that to my log, even if I probably am not actually consuming the full amount.