Tracking Calories
catherine_roche
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When you guys enter your foods - Do you enter the calories of the oils if you cooked it in oil? Ex) drizzling olive oil over asparagus before you bake it or using it to grease the pan so your eggs don't stick
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Oil has calories. The food absorbs some of the oil. So yes I do.1
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Of course I do. Oil adds a lot of calories. Not tracking those calories would be counterproductive to counting calories at all.
ETA: I don't count spray oil. I spray very sparingly. It has calories, but I would be SHOCKED if I thought I was spraying on enough to add even 20 calories per day. My diet can handle 20 untracked calories.
But when I use oil from a bottle, I weigh the bottle before and after and count the difference.2 -
catherine_roche wrote: »When you guys enter your foods - Do you enter the calories of the oils if you cooked it in oil? Ex) drizzling olive oil over asparagus before you bake it or using it to grease the pan so your eggs don't stick
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Correct.. as mentioned, I try to be as accurate as possible to reflect the calorie count. Can be challenging at times though!1
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definitely. 100 calories of olive oil looks like a very small amount when you pour it out.. that little drizzle is probably adding a couple of hundred calories to your meal, and that's enough to throw your numbers out0
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Yes, always0
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