Foods cooked in sauces/liquids that you don't eat

HelenDootson
HelenDootson Posts: 443 Member
in Food and Nutrition
I have a gammon joint, and found a great sounding recipe - Prepped it all , popped it in the slow cooker, went for a run and only now am I entering the recipe into MFP. The meat is cooked in apple juice, brown sugar, maple syrup (yeah, I know that much sugar should have rung alarms!!) and a load of spices - Which if divided by 8 is 700 odd calories per portion - But, I will not be eating the liquid! Anyone got any ideas on how to workout the true calorie value of what we will actually eat??
Thanks

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  • peachstategal
    peachstategal Posts: 398 Member
    I am interested in seeing what others will say. I'm pretty new here. I am wondering about the wide discrepancy I see in calorie counts for some foods like cooked chicken and beef. I never know which to put down.
  • benol1
    benol1 Posts: 867 Member
    If it were me, I would log the sauce.
  • F1uffy123
    F1uffy123 Posts: 121 Member
    I have a gammon joint, and found a great sounding recipe - Prepped it all , popped it in the slow cooker, went for a run and only now am I entering the recipe into MFP. The meat is cooked in apple juice, brown sugar, maple syrup (yeah, I know that much sugar should have rung alarms!!) and a load of spices - Which if divided by 8 is 700 odd calories per portion - But, I will not be eating the liquid! Anyone got any ideas on how to workout the true calorie value of what we will actually eat??
    Thanks

    Personally i would just calculate it as a whole. Although you wont be eating the liquid, you will probably find the meat has absorbed a lot of the sugars and flavours.

    Not the same for everyone i know, but this is how i would do it.
  • proudandprejudiced
    proudandprejudiced Posts: 127
    if you work out the calories in the sauce, then work out the calories in the meat, use that to help. So calculate the calories in the meat you eat, and then add some of the liquid calories on (because like someone else said, some will have absorbed into the meat).

    That's going to be your best estimate, I suppose. :)
  • BethicaJ
    BethicaJ Posts: 13 Member
    I would log it with all the sauce too. It's just how things are easier. Work out extra hard to burn off some of those calories!!
  • Vailara
    Vailara Posts: 2,466 Member
    I'd probably just log an extra 50 calories on top of the meat, or however much you think you might take in along with the meat.

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