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Calories in marinaded meat?

_lyndseybrooke_
_lyndseybrooke_ Posts: 2,561 Member
edited February 16 in Food and Nutrition
Wow, that sounds a tad sexual, but it's not!

If I marinade chicken breast in fat free Italian dressing, for example, how can I count the calories that I'll actually consume once the meat is removed from the dressing and cooked? I usually just count it as 2 tbsp of the marinade I'm using - does that sound like too much? Not enough? Do you bother counting it at all?

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  • Fit_Fox88
    Fit_Fox88 Posts: 410 Member
    I do the same as you... only count it as 1 or 2 servings. But then there's times when I make beef jerky or beef tips and rice and I marinate it in a ton of different stuff (i.e. soy sauce, teriyaki, pineapple juice, etc.) and I just don't bother counting it. What I usually do in that case is up my serving by .2 or .3 when I enter the recipe. Or I'll leave a buffer of about 100-200 calories for the day since I'm really guesstimating how much I'm actually using. If it's not an everyday thing, I wouldn't worry too much about it :smile:
  • juliacatherine1
    juliacatherine1 Posts: 71 Member
    just use your favorite type of vinegar and favorite spices. Just as tasty, less calories.
  • madhatter2013
    madhatter2013 Posts: 1,547 Member
    Right... less calories but still calories. So how do you count them is what she's asking.
  • TeaBea
    TeaBea Posts: 14,517 Member
    Technically you could take the measurement of the salad dressing before & after.

    If I add 1/4 cup (then marinate).....then take the meat out, and measure what's left in the pan. The calories I would log are the "difference" ....1 - 2 Tbls sounds about right.
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