Help weighing frozen chicken that's been cooked?

jazzercism
jazzercism Posts: 3
in Health and Weight Loss
So I work 40 hours a week on graveyard and I like to prepare my meals ahead of schedule like many people do, and the nutrition label for frozen Tyson Boneless Skinless Chicken Breast Strips, which I like to cook at the beginning of the week and then add to my salads daily, have the servings weighed frozen. Any suggestions on how to figure the caloric content/serving size once it's all been cooked? Am I making sense here?

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  • bcattoes
    bcattoes Posts: 17,299 Member
    Does it have additives, or is it just frozen chicken. If it's just chicken, then I'd just enter the cooked weight using the generic 'chicken - cooked' entry in the database.
  • erickirb
    erickirb Posts: 12,294 Member
    One way would be too weigh it before you cook it, then you know what the total macros/cals are, then weigh it again after you cook it. If it was 200 grams and is now 180 then you would use the cal/macros of the 200, so if you eat 80 of the cooked that would be 44.4% of the total, and you know the total cals/macros due to weighing before cooking, so it would be the same as 89 grams uncooked (200*.444)
  • No_Finish_Line
    No_Finish_Line Posts: 3,661 Member
    i do this too. are you saying you cook it and then freeze it, and then weight it? lol

    i cook it, through it into a big bowl and weight it dail as i prepare the salad.

    but i'll bet (unlike beef) there is very little weight loss in the cultlet between cooked and uncooked because they are relatively low in fat.

    its the fat cooking off the beef that makes it weight less
  • sargessexyone
    sargessexyone Posts: 494 Member
    I thaw and weigh it before I cook.
  • No_Finish_Line
    No_Finish_Line Posts: 3,661 Member
    whats wrong with weighting it after you cook?
  • bcattoes
    bcattoes Posts: 17,299 Member
    *nevermind*
  • lemurcat12
    lemurcat12 Posts: 30,886 Member
    You can weigh it before cooking (including while frozen) or after. Before is somewhat more accurate, since how long you cook it makes a difference, but probably not a huge one for chicken.

    If you roast it or otherwise cook it dry, there is a non-insignificant difference between the cooked and raw weights. For 100 g of skinless chicken breast it's 110 calories (according to the USDA information, which you can find in the MFP database if you look for the entries without asterisks), and for the same amount of cooked chicken, it's 165 calories. This is because there is less water in the cooked, mostly.

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