Scrambled eggs- how do you know?

MamaWeil2018
MamaWeil2018 Posts: 62 Member
in Food and Nutrition
Family's having a Sunday breakfast with scrambled eggs, and I'm at a loss to try and figure out my portions for the eggs- everything's listed as '1 egg' or '2 eggs', nothing using cup or weight measurements. Can anyone suggest a decent alternative- like if I were to take 1/3 cup of scrambled eggs, how many calories/cholesterol/etc am I looking at?

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  • AshleyNicolexo_
    AshleyNicolexo_ Posts: 27
    I think it depends on what they use to oil the pan.. butter and oils add calories to the eggs.
  • AshleyNicolexo_
    AshleyNicolexo_ Posts: 27
    But honestly.. i wouldn't worry about the calories for that.. just portion it out.. 1/3 cup like you said and then eat healthy foods for the rest of the day.
  • stines72
    stines72 Posts: 853 Member
    If you can figure out how many eggs were cooked total and how much oil or butter they were cooked in you can add that to a custom recipe and try to make an estimate of what percentage you ate. Say 6 eggs are used and there are 3 people, you'll probably want to add 6 eggs to the recipe and set the serving size for 3, then add 1 serving of it. Which comes out to 2 eggs.
  • blu_meanie_ca
    blu_meanie_ca Posts: 352 Member
    Some times you have to eyeball it, and hope for the best. Eggs are light enough in calories you'll have a difference of 10-15 cals.. not that big of a deal at the end of the day. Do 3 jumping jacks or something just in case .

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