Oil logging help

charlenekemp07
charlenekemp07 Posts: 36 Member
edited December 2024 in Food and Nutrition
If you cook something in a bit of olive oil, like a piece of meat, how much oil do you log in? I use maybe a tablespoon in my pan and cook sometimes 3 pieces of meat in it, sometimes more. How do I determine it then? Yes, I'm getting that accurate with my log ins, lol! My goal is 1600, but I try to do 1300 each day, because I'm scared that I logged in wrong 🤷🏻‍♀️

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  • kshama2001
    kshama2001 Posts: 28,055 Member
    Firstly, I weigh calorie dense foods like oil. There are 14 grams to a tablespoon. You can put the pan on the scale and add the oil, or put the container on the scale, zero or TARE it, pour what you are using, return the container to the scale, and the negative number is the amount you used.

    I never have enough leftover oil in the pan to worry about, but if I thought I might, I would weigh the pan before and after and subtract the difference.

    When you are weighing your food and using good entries you can be confident that you are logging correctly and not compensate by undereating.

    Unfortunately, the "verified" green check marks in the MFP database are used for both user-created entries and system entries that MFP pulled from the USDA database. To find system entries for whole foods, I get the syntax from the USDA database and paste that into MFP.

    For packaged foods, I verify the label against what I find in MFP.
  • charlenekemp07
    charlenekemp07 Posts: 36 Member
    Thank you so so much!!! This really helps a lot
  • wilson10102018
    wilson10102018 Posts: 1,306 Member
    I weigh the bottle before and after pouring it in the pan.
  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,458 Member
    Not for nothing but I use less than a teaspoon of oil to cook three chicken breasts. That's 40 calories spread between them. Pretty negligible. I don't think you really need a tablespoon - so that would help. :)
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