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kf2g8yd4jd387
kf2g8yd4jd387 Posts: 1 Member
in Food and Nutrition
Hi everyone…new here.
How do you track cooking oils? For example a tablespoon of salted butter for a family meal of 9 scrambled eggs? Divided by 4 people.

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  • neanderthin
    neanderthin Posts: 10,295 Member
    edited December 2024
    Hopefully you find out.
  • anxietyfairy
    anxietyfairy Posts: 79 Member
    I weigh mine but I’m not sure if your meant to weigh liquids. Still losing weight though!
  • Greaterthanlife
    Greaterthanlife Posts: 124 Member
    Hello everyone:

    My food log for today as follows:

    Salmon sushi
    Chicken pot stickers
    Healthy choice dinner
    Sugar free candy bar
    Strawberry shortcake ice cream

    Total calories 1500. Base calories 2140.
    I hope I can maintain this calorie range during the holidays. All the best and take care.
  • sollyn23l2
    sollyn23l2 Posts: 1,805 Member
    kf2g8yd4jd387 wrote: »
    Hi everyone…new here.
    How do you track cooking oils? For example a tablespoon of salted butter for a family meal of 9 scrambled eggs? Divided by 4 people.
    kf2g8yd4jd387 wrote: »
    Hi everyone…new here.
    How do you track cooking oils? For example a tablespoon of salted butter for a family meal of 9 scrambled eggs? Divided by 4 people.

    1 tablespoon divided by nine. That would be your serving of oil. So find an entry for oil and put in your measurement as 1 tablespoon, then your serving as 1/9.
  • Greaterthanlife
    Greaterthanlife Posts: 124 Member
    Hello everyone:

    My food as follows:

    Healthy choice dinner
    Chicken pesto pizza
    Rice crispies
    Holiday candy

    Total calories 2290. Base calories 2140. I went over 150 calories. Hopefully tomorrow will be better. See you then everyone.
  • Adventurista
    Adventurista Posts: 2,109 Member
    edited December 2024
    kf2g8yd4jd387 wrote: »
    Hi everyone…new here.
    How do you track cooking oils? For example a tablespoon of salted butter for a family meal of 9 scrambled eggs? Divided by 4 people.

    So, assuming 4 people eat equal portions, nothing significant left in pan

    9 eggs fresh large (size?) ÷ 4 = 2.25 eggs each person

    Select 1 tbsp butter (÷ by 4 = ) and enter .25 for the amount used.
  • sollyn23l2
    sollyn23l2 Posts: 1,805 Member
    Oops, yep, missed the divided among 4 people part. Adventurista would be correct. I was doing it egg🤦‍♀️
  • lynn_glenmont
    lynn_glenmont Posts: 10,106 Member
    sollyn23l2 wrote: »
    kf2g8yd4jd387 wrote: »
    Hi everyone…new here.
    How do you track cooking oils? For example a tablespoon of salted butter for a family meal of 9 scrambled eggs? Divided by 4 people.
    kf2g8yd4jd387 wrote: »
    Hi everyone…new here.
    How do you track cooking oils? For example a tablespoon of salted butter for a family meal of 9 scrambled eggs? Divided by 4 people.

    1 tablespoon divided by nine. That would be your serving of oil. So find an entry for oil and put in your measurement as 1 tablespoon, then your serving as 1/9.

    No -- there are only four people eating. The number of eggs they are sharing is immaterial to the logging of the butter used to cook them. OP should log 0.25 tbsp of butter.
  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,420 Member
    As others have said, log the amount you use divided by the number of serves. I don't quibble with the whole "maybe some gets left behind" unless it's a really greasy dish (which I don't cook anyway), I'd rather log over and lose a bit faster, than log under and wonder why I'm not losing.
    Greaterthanlife wrote: »
    Hello everyone:

    My food as follows:

    Healthy choice dinner
    Chicken pesto pizza
    Rice crispies
    Holiday candy

    Total calories 2290. Base calories 2140. I went over 150 calories. Hopefully tomorrow will be better. See you then everyone.

    Hi there @Greaterthanlife I see you've been posting a good while now, but just so you know - each thread here is a discussion with a discussion title and a topic, so just picking one at random and popping in to post what you ate is a bit odd, like walking up to a group of people and telling them completely out of the blue and walking away. Maybe you might want to start yourself a thread where you keep posting your daily intake?
  • sollyn23l2
    sollyn23l2 Posts: 1,805 Member
    lynn_glenmont wrote: »
    sollyn23l2 wrote: »
    kf2g8yd4jd387 wrote: »
    Hi everyone…new here.
    How do you track cooking oils? For example a tablespoon of salted butter for a family meal of 9 scrambled eggs? Divided by 4 people.
    kf2g8yd4jd387 wrote: »
    Hi everyone…new here.
    How do you track cooking oils? For example a tablespoon of salted butter for a family meal of 9 scrambled eggs? Divided by 4 people.

    1 tablespoon divided by nine. That would be your serving of oil. So find an entry for oil and put in your measurement as 1 tablespoon, then your serving as 1/9.

    No -- there are only four people eating. The number of eggs they are sharing is immaterial to the logging of the butter used to cook them. OP should log 0.25 tbsp of butter.

    Yeah. That was already addressed and I acknowledged I missed that.

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