Crock pot liquid calorie count

alexiseaker6190
alexiseaker6190 Posts: 2 Member
edited December 2024 in Food and Nutrition
So in the past I’ve made things that involved tossing a protein ex chicken into a crock pot with a liquid ex Italian dressing. Obviously as it cooks the meat absorbs some of the liquid but not all of it so how do you calculate how many calories for something like this??

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  • JohnBarth
    JohnBarth Posts: 672 Member
    Personally, I log everything that goes into the recipe and count the proportional amount of the extra liquid as part of the serving. It will end up overstating the amount of calories logged, but for me, I'd rather log a higher value than one that may be understated.
  • janejellyroll
    janejellyroll Posts: 25,763 Member
    JohnBarth wrote: »
    Personally, I log everything that goes into the recipe and count the proportional amount of the extra liquid as part of the serving. It will end up overstating the amount of calories logged, but for me, I'd rather log a higher value than one that may be understated.

    This is what I do also. I figure I'm going to be getting at least *some* of the marinade and it will probably balance out some other things I'm accidentally undercounting.
  • autumnblade75
    autumnblade75 Posts: 1,661 Member
    I, um, consume all the liquid, since I already counted it in the recipe. If I'm chucking a protein, some veg and a liquid into the crockpot in the first place, I'm already likely to be thinking of it like soup, anyway.
  • elanagershen
    elanagershen Posts: 1 Member
    SAME!!! Besides, as much as we would like to believe labels are accurate, they can be up to 20% *wrong*. Better to overestimate than under. https://www.strongerbyscience.com/nutrition-labels/
  • NovusDies
    NovusDies Posts: 8,940 Member
    edited March 2019
    As long as you don't overstate your calories by an unreasonable amount I agree. I like to log high but not so much that it is unfair or will definitely throw my numbers off for the week. The hope is that your log will always balance itself out when you go high or accidentally low. You need to use some common sense and set a limit to just how high you go when you are reasonably sure you aren't consuming those calories.
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