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  • suziecue25
    suziecue25 Posts: 289 Member
    edited February 2019
    MikePTY wrote: »
    How does it work with something like ground beef and the fat cooking out? Are there any good ways to estimate that?

    Not in UK, everything is raw, including mince [ground beef] I'm afraid it's a case of suck it up buttercup :'(

    Edit: I buy 5% fat mince, get a bit more that way when it's cooked.
  • deannalfisher
    deannalfisher Posts: 5,600 Member
    MikePTY wrote: »
    How does it work with something like ground beef and the fat cooking out? Are there any good ways to estimate that?

    there are different entries depending on what ratio of fat you guy (80/20; 90/10 etc) - best you can do is pick the raw entry and you'll get pretty close
  • lemurcat2
    lemurcat2 Posts: 7,887 Member
    AmyC2288 wrote: »
    Guys- still not clear on meat issue. If I scan a pack of chicken breast, grill, then weigh out 4 oz- can I or can I not go by the 4 oz listing on the label (assuming there are no specified cooking directions like "as prepared")

    No, you would be underestimating calories.

    You can find cooked entries for chicken breast if you want to weigh after cooking.
  • lemurcat2
    lemurcat2 Posts: 7,887 Member
    edited February 2019
    MikePTY wrote: »
    How does it work with something like ground beef and the fat cooking out? Are there any good ways to estimate that?

    I don't think it makes the raw entry inaccurate, but if you are worried that you are giving up calories you should have, you can use the cooked entries.

    Here's an example of a cooked entry: Beef, ground, 85% lean meat / 15% fat, patty, cooked, broiled.

    When I was losing I used cooked entries for bone-in meats, but not otherwise. I also never worried about fat cooking out, as I figured enough stayed on the meat that it was worth counting, that it might be taken into to some extent in the raw entry anyway, and that it was a margin of error.
  • laurelh8
    laurelh8 Posts: 38 Member
    The only time I can remember seeing nutritional information listed on the package for cooked meat is Kroger Ground Sausage. The Hot Italian variety specifies 2 oz cooked, 170 calories.
  • lemurcat2
    lemurcat2 Posts: 7,887 Member
    I think bacon often does too.
  • Kalex1975
    Kalex1975 Posts: 427 Member
    MikePTY wrote: »
    How does it work with something like ground beef and the fat cooking out? Are there any good ways to estimate that?

    The USDA has a ground beef calculator here...

    https://ndb.nal.usda.gov/ndb/beef/show

    You can select raw, crumbles pan-browned, loaf baked, patty broiled, and patty pan-broiled.
  • SMKing75
    SMKing75 Posts: 84 Member
    Yeah, I'll go against the majority and say I never weigh my meat raw, always cooked. Have lost 120lbs and counting (10 to go). I never eat more than 2 oz beef in say tacos so I'm sure it's not that much of a difference. As far as chicken, if it says 4 oz, then I'm counting it as 4 oz. I can not worry about small caloric mishaps as I cannot always be in control of the food in front of me unless I never leave the house. There always has to be some room for error IMO.
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