How do you calculate correctly for a homemade marinade?

I am having a hard time with getting the correct calculations for a marinade. It is showing it as if I have eaten all of the ingredients when I don't. Can anyone help? Thank you!!

If you are saying you use a cup of marinade on a chicken for example, and then most of it stays in the bowl, I'd measure what's left and then just enter the difference. So if you start with a cup, and end up with 6 oz, just enter 2oz. I hope that makes sense and helps.

Have you tried using the recipe calculator on here? Just put in all the ingredients and how many it feeds, and it will show you how many calories it has per serving.

The big thing in a marinade is usually the oil. And I find that you can often eliminate the oil!

Most marinades are a combination of flavor ingredients (herbs, spices, salt, etc.), an acid (soy sauce, vinegar, wine), and oil. I follow the recipe for the flavorings and the acid, and then replace all or part of the oil with water. That way I get all the flavor and none of the fat and calories. It works really well.

Ya know, I think you might be on to something. I've counted and not counted and did not see one little difference (only when pertaining to marinades). Thank you for kinda "justifying" this so I don't have a bunch of second thoughts everytime I eliminate the marinade from my calorie count. Seriously, most of the marinade stayed in the container with just a little actually getting into the meat I suppose. I may just round up my calories for the meat to the nearest 10 and call it a day. THANKS!!!