Secret calories 🤔

abbasi007
abbasi007 Posts: 1 Member
edited December 20 in Health and Weight Loss
When we enter something let's say beef or omlette on fitnesspal app, we suppose that it is 170 calories.
Are these calories for cooked food and includes for cooking oil too or we have to enter oil later?

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  • wmweeza
    wmweeza Posts: 319 Member
    I add butter as another entry
  • yirara
    yirara Posts: 9,985 Member
    If there was an entry that included oil then there's no way of knowing how much was added. Or you assume it contains oil but in fact it doesn't. Keep in mind that 1g of oil has 9kcal. Thus a tiny teaspoon will easily hold more than 5 grams of oil, hence more than 45kcal. Could you cook a piece of meat with this little oil?

    I suggest you always look for entries that state raw or uncooked, or do a sanity check. And then add the oil separately.
  • Panini911
    Panini911 Posts: 2,325 Member
    it's best to log individual ingredients. so eggs, oil, milk or whatever you put in/on your omelette. For recipes, create your own in the recipe builder.
  • apullum
    apullum Posts: 4,838 Member
    If at all possible, don’t just pick a generic “omelet” entry; use the recipe builder to calculate the calories of the omelet you ate.

    If you are the omelet at a restaurant, estimate high—they likely used more oil/butter than you would at home.
  • lynn_glenmont
    lynn_glenmont Posts: 10,097 Member
    apullum wrote: »
    If at all possible, don’t just pick a generic “omelet” entry; use the recipe builder to calculate the calories of the omelet you ate.

    If you are the omelet at a restaurant, estimate high—they likely used more oil/butter than you would at home.

    I wouldn't use the recipe builder for an omelet, unless you're making a single huge omelet to serve multiple people.

    I would just enter the individual ingredients right into my food diary. You could save that as a meal if you want.

    If you create a recipe for an omelet, you run the risk that over time you'll use more butter or other fat, and more of any high calorie ingredients in the filling, that you either won't bother weighing in the first place because it's "just" your regular omelet, or you'll get sick of fiddling to get the same amount of butter, etc. each time, or have to deal with editing the recipe.

    It's much simpler to edit the individual items in a saved meal each time you log it.
  • apullum
    apullum Posts: 4,838 Member
    lynn_glenmont wrote: »
    apullum wrote: »
    If at all possible, don’t just pick a generic “omelet” entry; use the recipe builder to calculate the calories of the omelet you ate.

    If you are the omelet at a restaurant, estimate high—they likely used more oil/butter than you would at home.

    I wouldn't use the recipe builder for an omelet, unless you're making a single huge omelet to serve multiple people.

    I would just enter the individual ingredients right into my food diary. You could save that as a meal if you want.

    If you create a recipe for an omelet, you run the risk that over time you'll use more butter or other fat, and more of any high calorie ingredients in the filling, that you either won't bother weighing in the first place because it's "just" your regular omelet, or you'll get sick of fiddling to get the same amount of butter, etc. each time, or have to deal with editing the recipe.

    It's much simpler to edit the individual items in a saved meal each time you log it.

    Depends on the omelet. I was thinking of one with several fillings that OP might want to make again later. I was also assuming that OP would weigh out the amounts entered each time, or update the recipe accordingly if a different weight was used, although that may be a bad assumption.
  • PumpkinPeril
    PumpkinPeril Posts: 22 Member
    Seconding making a meal entry. I do this for things that I make single servings at a time. It loads each individual item into my diary and then I edit the weights as needed.

    I also do this for recipe bases. For example, I have a "base meal" for overnight oats that contains the plain necessities (oats, yogurt, milk, etc). I choose the meal and then add any add-ins like protein powder, fruit and the like depending on the day.
  • lynn_glenmont
    lynn_glenmont Posts: 10,097 Member
    PumpkinPeril wrote: »
    Seconding making a meal entry. I do this for things that I make single servings at a time. It loads each individual item into my diary and then I edit the weights as needed.

    I also do this for recipe bases. For example, I have a "base meal" for overnight oats that contains the plain necessities (oats, yogurt, milk, etc). I choose the meal and then add any add-ins like protein powder, fruit and the like depending on the day.

    I do something similar for meals like smoothies or oats or even meals from places like Chipotle where you choose individual components, but instead of just making it a "base meal," I include all the "extra" options that I use as well (e.g., different fruits and protein powders for the smoothies, different add-ins for oats, different meats -- but not the ones I never order -- at Chipotle) in the meal, because it's so much easier to delete even 10 different things I didn't use this time than to look up and verify database entries for the two or three "extras" or "options" that I used that particular time.
  • texasredreb
    texasredreb Posts: 541 Member
    edited May 2019
    I add oil and salt/spices to all my entered meals as well as individual weighed ingredients. I measure the amount I add to the pan/cooking apparatus and then log 1/4 to 1/2 of it as I don't eat the whole amount cooked.
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