Bacon is not worth it
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Turkey "bacon" for me.0
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During the cooking process bacon loses roughly two-thirds of its weight and roughly two-thirds of its calories (from fat cooking off), so this is one food that it really makes sense to weigh cooked and use a cooked entry in the database (unless you're using it in a recipe where you cook the bacon first and then use all the fat to continue cooking other ingredients).
Here's a good side-by-side comparison of raw and cooked nutritional values.
https://ndb.nal.usda.gov/ndb/foods/show/2692?manu=&fgcd=Pork Products
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trollerskates wrote: »I never thought id say that, but bqcon is not worth it. Too many calories. Im on a low calorie diet and 4 pieces of bacon has nearly 500 calories. Thats not enough food for that much of my daily allowance.
2 slices of Oscar Meyer Center Cut Bacon is about 70 calories. And it's real bacon, not that turkey crap.
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The local bacon I get is more calories by the slice than commercial bacon probably because they don't slice it paper thin. So I use the USDA values and weigh the slices so I know exactly how much I am eating (each slice does vary by weight). Bacon is totally worth it...even if it's just half a slice some days. A wonderful, savory taste.1
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I use Kroger Private Selection center cut, 25 calories a slice.
privateselection.com/artisan-products/meats/bacon/center-cut-bacon/0 -
kaylajane11 wrote: »I've wondered this about bacon. I live in Canada, but in a border city so I have easy access to US products. In Canada, this is the typical nutrition info for bacon:
This is the info for Oscar Mayer bacon (USA):
The serving size for the Canadian one is for 50g of uncooked bacon, while the US is for 14g of cooked. It's so hard to compare. I stick to buying the US kind and weighing it after it's cooked.
I think the entries that give 100 calories a slice are the usda entries for raw bacon... but you don't eat all of it, unless you eat all the pan drippings too (who does that? lol).
I do! The other days , to reminiscent the life in the old country where we stir fried veggies and everything with lard, I thought the bacon juice would be a good choice. To be honest even though the dish tasted pretty decent, I couldn't recall any old taste memories. Good thing anyway, life is meant to be changed.
American style bacon has its own uniqueness but if I want to pig out I would go for sliced Korean pork belly which comes frozen and plain so you can marinate any way you want and grill.0 -
You can cut a lot of calories off of your bacon if you make sure to go for the plain stuff instead of maple or other flavored bacon.
I get the Hormel center cut bacon and it's 70 calories for two slices.0 -
Okay, firstly, that back bacon looks delicious!
But here's the thing. Why eat all five pieces? Why not eat... one piece?
My husband and I used to cook eight pieces of bacon for Sunday brunch and eat every single bite (except for the crumb we give the cat. One must pay Kitty Toll, I'm afraid.) Then I started eating just two pieces instead of four. Now, we make three pieces and each eat 1.5, and it easily fits into our calorie budget and our macros.
If you're worried about it going back, divvy up the package and freeze some for later.0 -
I eat grasses beef bacon. You couldn't pry that out of my cold dead hands.
500 calorie bacon?! You may need to recalculate your bacon calories because that is just plain wrong. I have 4 Oz's and it was like 300 calories.0 -
smarion0006 wrote: »Have you ever heard about rice paper bacon? It sounds a bit weird but the vegan community raves about it. Maybe it's worth a try?
You're quoting people who have no respect whatsoever for bacon.9 -
endlessfall16 wrote: »kaylajane11 wrote: »I've wondered this about bacon. I live in Canada, but in a border city so I have easy access to US products. In Canada, this is the typical nutrition info for bacon:
This is the info for Oscar Mayer bacon (USA):
The serving size for the Canadian one is for 50g of uncooked bacon, while the US is for 14g of cooked. It's so hard to compare. I stick to buying the US kind and weighing it after it's cooked.
I think the entries that give 100 calories a slice are the usda entries for raw bacon... but you don't eat all of it, unless you eat all the pan drippings too (who does that? lol).
I do! The other days , to reminiscent the life in the old country where we stir fried veggies and everything with lard, I thought the bacon juice would be a good choice. To be honest even though the dish tasted pretty decent, I couldn't recall any old taste memories. Good thing anyway, life is meant to be changed.
American style bacon has its own uniqueness but if I want to pig out I would go for sliced Korean pork belly which comes frozen and plain so you can marinate any way you want and grill.
I save the drippings as well.
I use it to fry up stuff at a later date such a shrimp or scallops or chicken even scrambled eggs.
My mom growing up made us something called "pan gravy" that used bacon fat...1 -
trollerskates wrote: »I never thought id say that, but bqcon is not worth it...
That's just crazy talk. No bacon is almost like saying no coffee in the morning - I want off that planet!
Bacon is always worth it, because mmmm, bacon. 2 -
lemurcat12 wrote: »Bacon is the most overrated food.
lemurcat12 is now off the list of rational posters.
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lemurcat12 wrote: »Bacon is the most overrated food.
lemurcat12 is now off the list of rational posters.
LOL
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innumeracy. it's a thing. now with bacon.1
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I dont eat pork, so I eat Arnold's beef bacon. It's only 50 calories for 2 fried slices.
I also looked at my jimmy dean turkey sausage and the beef bacon is lower in sodium than the turkey sausage.0 -
I use Turkey Bacon it is healthier
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trollerskates wrote: »I never thought id say that, but bqcon is not worth it. Too many calories. Im on a low calorie diet and 4 pieces of bacon has nearly 500 calories. Thats not enough food for that much of my daily allowance.
Blasphemer, heathen1 -
For some reason it cut off the rest of my post. Bacon is a regular part of my food lifestyle. Two slices is about 100 calories normally for the Oscar Meyer brand.0
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trollerskates wrote: »I never thought id say that, but bqcon is not worth it. Too many calories. Im on a low calorie diet and 4 pieces of bacon has nearly 500 calories. Thats not enough food for that much of my daily allowance.
Noooooooooo!
Bacon is 100% worth it. 17 grams of bacon, or 2 thinner slices, has about 100 or so calories. So, if you have four slices of thinly sliced bacon, it is a few hundred calories.
Everything in moderation. 0 -
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Seriously, insomnia and waiting for the grocery store to open so I can go and get BACON. So many cravings because of this thread.3
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If you're using a raw bacon entry, you should switch to logging it cooked. The raw entries include all the fat that cooks out - so assuming you aren't eating all of that, the calories are much lower. I still think bacon is pretty high calorie for how filling it is, but I can definitely fit a couple of slices in now and then (which is sufficient for me, I don't crave bacon very often).0
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Alatariel75 wrote: »
I cooked up some bacon for a s'mores bar last summer. It was a hit.2 -
Turkey bacon IS NOT bacon.I have to just say NO to turkey bacon. I love turkey and especially turkey sandwiches at what not. I struggle with turkey burgers but I can get enough seasonings and stuff in the turkey meat to make them tolerable.
But there are two things I do not want and that is turkey bacon or turkey jerky. Got to do the real deal!
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