Three Bean Salad

AMRROL
AMRROL Posts: 168 Member
edited November 2024 in Recipes
I just made a standard three bean salad, using .25 cup each of sugar, apple cider vinegar and sunflower oil for the dressing. Turned out 100% yummy. Makes 5 servings at 219 calories a serving.

Therein lies the problem. Most of the calories in this dish are in the dressing. But only a small fraction of the dressing (that coating the beans) is actually eaten. So I am logging in 219 calories but in reality it is probably considerably much less. Wondering how I should account for this. I hate to log in 219 calories if in fact I am only eating 50.

Advice anyone?

Replies

  • ellybeann43
    ellybeann43 Posts: 12 Member
    I would log it in as 219, Id rather be a under than over. Good Luck!
  • AMRROL
    AMRROL Posts: 168 Member
    What I ended up doing is, after transferring the salad to individual one cup servings, I measured out how much liquid dressing was left over. It was approximately 1/2 so I reduced the calories correspondingly. Instead of 5 servings, I only ended up with 4 one cup servings coming in at 187 calories. Not a real big difference, but I think it is more accurate.

    Next time around I think I will increase the amount of string and wax beans and lower the amount of kidney beans. And only use .125 cup of oil, vinegar and sugar.
This discussion has been closed.

Categories