bacon question

marinemom1977
marinemom1977 Posts: 7 Member
edited November 16 in Food and Nutrition
I eat a lot of collards. I usually fry 2 pieces of bacon for flavoring only. I don't eat it. I've been counting the calories as if I was eating it. Should I?
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  • peachyfuzzle
    peachyfuzzle Posts: 1,122 Member
    You're still going to be ingesting calories from the bacon fat itself, so while it might not be the entire piece, it still deserves some sort of consideration.
  • glevinso
    glevinso Posts: 1,895 Member
    I am sorry, this post is broken. Don't eat it? How does this work? I has confuse :(
  • SingRunTing
    SingRunTing Posts: 2,604 Member
    If you're already counting the bacon, why not just eat it?
  • Mycophilia
    Mycophilia Posts: 1,225 Member
    You don't eat the bacon? What blasphemy is this?
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  • Charliegottheruns
    Charliegottheruns Posts: 286 Member
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  • snowflake930
    snowflake930 Posts: 2,188 Member
    Eat the bacon. Moderation in all foods.
    Early on, I tried the turkey bacon. IMHO it should not be called bacon. Horrible stuff, and you save very little calories with the turkey, definitely not worthy.
  • allaboutthecake
    allaboutthecake Posts: 1,535 Member
    For those of you who don't know, it's the fat in the bacon that flavors the collard greens....you may wish to test a couple of pieces..fry it up, measure the fat. A teaspoon of bacon fat is 38kcal, 4gr fat (2 saturated), cholesterol 4mg, 0 carb, 0 protein. Just one slice of bacon is significantly different nutrition facts.
  • PiSquared
    PiSquared Posts: 148 Member
    Can you save the uneaten bacon for another use? Crumble a couple slices on top of soup or pasta? Make a BLT? Like Allaboutthecake said (awesome name, by the way), you should probably measure the amount of bacon drippings you get out of your 2 slices, and log that.
  • KylaDenay
    KylaDenay Posts: 1,585 Member
    eat it
  • Squig1102
    Squig1102 Posts: 10 Member
    2 strips is like what, 80 calories? Eat it, track it, enjoy it. Don't feel guilty either! Bacon is the shiz!
  • tibby531
    tibby531 Posts: 717 Member
    I save the drippings/grease/noms for cooking. there's an entry in the database for it, if you want to switch to that and not eat the bacon. but I can't understand why you wouldn't want to eat the bacon. ;)

    log what you eat and eat what you log. I do so to the point of licking the plate. :)
  • chivalryder
    chivalryder Posts: 4,391 Member
    This thread has everything wrong with it.

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  • jennifer_417
    jennifer_417 Posts: 12,344 Member
    Don't mind me, I'll just be over here collecting all of the uneaten bacon.
  • maillemaker
    maillemaker Posts: 1,253 Member
    2 strips is like what, 80 calories?

    Yup. 2 slices of Costco thick-sliced Applewood bacon is only 100 calories. It's probably some of the most satisfying sources of calories you can get. I'd eat that stuff.
  • farfromthetree
    farfromthetree Posts: 982 Member
    edited April 2015
    chivalryder wrote: »
    This thread has everything wrong with it.

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    Maybe shes pregnant and wants to keep those six pack abs. Sorry, couldn't resist ;)


    Edited to tell OP..eat the BACON!!
  • PrizePopple
    PrizePopple Posts: 3,133 Member
    And here I am dabbing the grease off bacon before pile driving it into my facehole.
  • Kimberly_Harper
    Kimberly_Harper Posts: 409 Member
    This is just bacon abuse. You only use it for it's juice er fat. OMG YES eat the bacon!!
  • betuel75
    betuel75 Posts: 776 Member
    Mycophilia wrote: »
    You don't eat the bacon? What blasphemy is this?

    haha! for real!
  • daydreams_of_pretty
    daydreams_of_pretty Posts: 506 Member
    snowflake930 wrote: »
    Eat the bacon. Moderation in all foods.
    Early on, I tried the turkey bacon. IMHO it should not be called bacon. Horrible stuff, and you save very little calories with the turkey, definitely not worthy.

    I agree about the turkey bacon. It just tastes like salt. My boyfriend prefers it for some reason that I will never understand. :s

    OP, I vote for eating the bacon.
  • Laoch_Cailin
    Laoch_Cailin Posts: 414 Member
    marinemom1977 wrote: »
    I eat a lot of collards. I usually fry 2 pieces of bacon for flavoring only. I don't eat it. I've been counting the calories as if I was eating it. Should I?

    I don't get it!?! Why throw away the bacon????? I mean.....why?
  • randomtai
    randomtai Posts: 9,003 Member
    Not.. eat the bacon??

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  • Debmal77
    Debmal77 Posts: 4,770 Member
    bacon fat in the collards already...eat, track it and enjoy... ;)
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    If it were me I would test fry up a couple of slices of bacon and measure the rendered fat. I would not log it as actually eating the bacon if I wasn't eating the bacon. There's about 39 calories in a tsp of bacon grease.
  • marinemom1977
    marinemom1977 Posts: 7 Member
    glevinso wrote: »
    I am sorry, this post is broken. Don't eat it? How does this work? I has confuse :(

    I use it for seasoning only because it gets soggy from the water I add. I don't eat soggy bacon.
  • marinemom1977
    marinemom1977 Posts: 7 Member
    SingRunTing wrote: »
    If you're already counting the bacon, why not just eat it?

    Because it gets soggy from the water I add. Ewww!
  • marinemom1977
    marinemom1977 Posts: 7 Member
    To clarify. I love bacon. I don't eat this because I add water to steam the collards which makes the bacon soggy. Gross. Lol
  • NotQuiteNorm
    NotQuiteNorm Posts: 283 Member
    asflatasapancake wrote: »
    I have a solution. Send all of your uneaten bacon to me and I will eat it.

    You beat me to it.

    I actually saw the thread name "bacon question" and began to salivate!
  • kristydi
    kristydi Posts: 781 Member
    marinemom1977 wrote: »
    To clarify. I love bacon. I don't eat this because I add water to steam the collards which makes the bacon soggy. Gross. Lol

    Fry bacon to render grease. Remove bacon leaving grease in pan. Add greens and water continue as usual. When done sprinkle greens with reserved chopped bacon. Enjoy.
    snowflake930 wrote: »
    Eat the bacon. Moderation in all foods.
    Early on, I tried the turkey bacon. IMHO it should not be called bacon. Horrible stuff, and you save very little calories with the turkey, definitely not worthy.

    My husband is on a turkey bacon kick right now. I'll cook it for him, but I refuse to eat it. It looks wrong. It smells wrong and it absolutely tastes wrong. Therefore, turkey bacon is wrong.
  • glevinso
    glevinso Posts: 1,895 Member
    kristydi wrote: »
    marinemom1977 wrote: »
    To clarify. I love bacon. I don't eat this because I add water to steam the collards which makes the bacon soggy. Gross. Lol

    Fry bacon to render grease. Remove bacon leaving grease in pan. Add greens and water continue as usual. When done sprinkle greens with reserved chopped bacon. Enjoy.
    snowflake930 wrote: »
    Eat the bacon. Moderation in all foods.
    Early on, I tried the turkey bacon. IMHO it should not be called bacon. Horrible stuff, and you save very little calories with the turkey, definitely not worthy.

    My husband is on a turkey bacon kick right now. I'll cook it for him, but I refuse to eat it. It looks wrong. It smells wrong and it absolutely tastes wrong. Therefore, turkey bacon is wrong.

    Turkey bacon has this weird astringent chemical taste to me. No thanks. No way.
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