How to handle strained fat in a recipe?

MyIdaho54

I found a cool recipe for homemade turkey sausage and tried it last night. I used lean ground turkey 93/7 and strained off the fat. The recipe calculator for MFP assumes that one does not drain off the fat so fat intake is overestimated. Is there a way to adapt recipes to reflect straining off the fat?

neanderthin

I'm not sure it matters with the fat content in your turkey choice, also keep in mind that much of that moisture that you may think is fat could very well be water. Anyway, if you weighed the fat coming off you could subtract that from the recipe.

acpgee

On the webpage (but not the phone app) it is possible to enter negative calories. Sometimes if a recipe gives cals for stir fry + rice, and I don't have the rice I enter a negative calorie entry for it. So weigh or measure the strained oil next time and put in a negative entry of lard or butter, I guess.

MyIdaho54

I'm not sure it matters with the fat content in your turkey choice, also keep in mind that much of that moisture that you may think is fat could very well be water. Anyway, if you weighed the fat coming off you could subtract that from the recipe.

How would I subtract it from the recipe? Make my own jennie-O ground turkey with a lower fat content or is there another way?

MyIdaho54

On the webpage (but not the phone app) it is possible to enter negative calories. Sometimes if a recipe gives cals for stir fry + rice, and I don't have the rice I enter a negative calorie entry for it. So weigh or measure the strained oil next time and put in a negative entry of lard or butter, I guess.

Great, thanks! I assumed that negative calories would be flagged as an error. I'll weigh the drippings next time and subtract it out.