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counting the calories of a marinade recipe

esthergrub
esthergrub Posts: 12 Member
edited November 2024 in Recipes

Cooking question: if you marinate salmon in a mixture of sesame teriyaki sauce and red wine, yet pour out most of the marinade before you grill it, do you need to count all the calories that went into making the marinade?

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  • astrampe
    astrampe Posts: 2,169 Member
    Did you drink it? If you threw most of it out, why would you count all the calories that was in the recipe? If the marinade does not take a bottle of oil or a huge amount of sugar, I don't even count it....And I still lost lots of weight and kept it off....
  • annette_15
    annette_15 Posts: 1,657 Member
    I would just quick add like 50 calories
  • MsJulesRenee
    MsJulesRenee Posts: 1,180 Member
    annette_15 wrote: »
    I would just quick add like 50 calories

    ^^ same, guess the best you can this time.

    Next time, weigh the marinade before you put in the meat. Before you dump the extra after marination weigh the remaining and subtract from original weight. That will give you a better idea.
  • mistikal13
    mistikal13 Posts: 1,457 Member
    Guesstimate the best you can based on what was in the marinade. Don't sweat it too much though.
  • esthergrub
    esthergrub Posts: 12 Member
    Thanks for the responses. Since my husband is the one who did the actual grilling, I really have no idea how much he used and how much he dumped; I figure maybe two-thirds was wasted? So I adjusted my recipe to only reflect a third of the marinade per serving, and that cut out quite a bit of the carbs, sugar and sodium, but only about 50 calories in total.
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