Question about cooking chicken

junewonder
junewonder Posts: 30
edited September 24 in Food and Nutrition
I currently have chicken breasts in my crockpot with 1 can of campbell's chicken broth and 2 can-fulls of water. (the chicken was frozen & I don't want it to dry out...)

When I was thinking about the calorie content, I was originally going to count the whole can of broth, however I plan to take the breasts out to eat without the liquids. How would you count the calories for such a situation? Any ideas? Should I just pretend that I'm consuming the broth with the chicken for ease of calculating?

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  • Cbandelier
    Cbandelier Posts: 217 Member
    I would probably count just the chicken, maybe add in ~1/4 can of broth to the total just to be safe.

    In any case, I would keep that broth and use it for soup!
  • ChefJenn
    ChefJenn Posts: 350 Member
    you could enter the broth but instead of saying you had 1 serving of 1 cup.
    enter .25 of a cup

    the chicken is just absorbing the broth and mainly the sodium from it.
    You can make your own chicken broth by putting your chicken in a stock pot and with about a gallon of water and boil it and then return to low heat for about an hr.
    You might want to use a whole chicken for this.
  • spaboleo
    spaboleo Posts: 172
    Count to your disadvantage (count the full broth) and you'll reach your goals faster ;)
  • rodegghero
    rodegghero Posts: 212 Member
    I would count it
  • junewonder
    junewonder Posts: 30
    Thanks guys!
  • skinnylizzard
    skinnylizzard Posts: 460 Member
    Broth really doesn't have enough calories to worry like that..unless you're counting sodium, then it would make a big difference
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