I guess rice is my enemy..

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  • AMOMONAJOURNEYTOCHANGEHERLIFE
    AMOMONAJOURNEYTOCHANGEHERLIFE Posts: 170 Member
    I hear ya taste! I agree with the advice the above poster JaneiR is giving you.

    I say still eat it. It's probably high. Just don't do it often. Go out once a month for a treat be conscious of how much you are eating and Log it on the high side. You can play around at home and see if you can find something to make similar that will do. But I haven't found that something yet LOL
  • leon0897
    leon0897 Posts: 35 Member
    Ok does anyone have an estimate of how many calories are in a typical lunch or dinner portion of pork fried rice or yellow rice and peas from a spanish restaraunt? I realize that making it myself will be ideal, but I'm just curious to the calories when I eat out. Again I don't know if its hundreds or thousands of calories in the rice in general. Even when i read the goya box to try to have a comparision they use uncooked rice but I don't know how that equates to cooked.
  • Hornsby
    Hornsby Posts: 10,322 Member
    Here is the deal. Even if the rice is 700 calories, and you don't log it at all, that would only equate to .2lb error. There are tons of ways you can make that up throughout the week. There is no need to panic or feel guilty over having some food that you enjoy. Eat the rice, do your best guesstimate, and move on. The error in calories will be so minimal that it's not worth worrying about, and definitely not worth giving up a treat that you truly enjoy.
  • princessmommy122
    princessmommy122 Posts: 135 Member
    Here is a good link...http://www.buzzle.com/articles/fried-rice-calories-in-fried-rice.html. This link is per cup. Why not take a measuring cup with you once or twice an measure what they give you. After you do this a couple of times you should be able to eyeball how many cups you are eating. I would assume either fried rice or spanish rice would have a similar caloric value.
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  • Sirinya55
    Sirinya55 Posts: 79 Member
    Now this is my area of expertise...rice is my best friend :)
  • nixxthirteen
    nixxthirteen Posts: 280 Member
    Presidents Choice white rice is 160 calories per half cup uncooked. Lately I eat that stuff DAILY. Rice is not the enemy :)!
  • contingencyplan
    contingencyplan Posts: 3,639 Member
    Cooked, because of the water added, equates to roughly double the amount as uncooked. So 1/2 uncooked because 1 cooked. Regarding restaurant food there is NO WAY to get an idea of how much is in one restaurant's vs. another. Your only solution is to make sure you eat it so infrequently that it's not going to matter.
  • BlueBombers
    BlueBombers Posts: 4,064 Member
    Rice is awesome!
  • juggernaut1974
    juggernaut1974 Posts: 6,212 Member
    Make some at home...

    Take out a scale/measuring cups and measure out what 1/2 cup looks like after you dump it on a plate.

    Ditto for 1 cup

    Ditto for 100g

    etc etc etc.

    Train yourself to be able to fairly accurately estimate the portion size.

    Once you have that under control - ask someone at the restaurant if they can give you a list of ingredients that goes into their rice. Enter the ingredients into the MFP recipe builder, set a portion size, and use your newly trained estimation skills to log it when you eat it.

    It's probably not going to be 100% spot on accurate, but will get you in the ballpark.

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