Calories in marinaded meat?

_lyndseybrooke_

Wow, that sounds a tad sexual, but it's not!

If I marinade chicken breast in fat free Italian dressing, for example, how can I count the calories that I'll actually consume once the meat is removed from the dressing and cooked? I usually just count it as 2 tbsp of the marinade I'm using - does that sound like too much? Not enough? Do you bother counting it at all?

Fit_Fox88

I do the same as you... only count it as 1 or 2 servings. But then there's times when I make beef jerky or beef tips and rice and I marinate it in a ton of different stuff (i.e. soy sauce, teriyaki, pineapple juice, etc.) and I just don't bother counting it. What I usually do in that case is up my serving by .2 or .3 when I enter the recipe. Or I'll leave a buffer of about 100-200 calories for the day since I'm really guesstimating how much I'm actually using. If it's not an everyday thing, I wouldn't worry too much about it

juliacatherine1

just use your favorite type of vinegar and favorite spices. Just as tasty, less calories.

madhatter2013

Right... less calories but still calories. So how do you count them is what she's asking.

TeaBea

Technically you could take the measurement of the salad dressing before & after.

If I add 1/4 cup (then marinate).....then take the meat out, and measure what's left in the pan. The calories I would log are the "difference" ....1 - 2 Tbls sounds about right.