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Beef stew meat (calories?)

mirfan25
mirfan25 Posts: 45
edited November 2024 in Food and Nutrition
My husband bought some nice beef stew meat, not paying attention to which cut of meat it was (just asked for stew beef).. we have many bags of it in the freezer, and am now starting to use them about once a week in the slow cooker in various recipes... Today I weighed 500 grams of beef which is now cooking in the slow cooker, but now that I am searching the database, I am not sure which entry to use to log this beef? What does everyone use to log their beef stew meat? How many calories in 500 grams? Does it vary very much depending on the cut?

Thanks!

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  • mirfan25
    mirfan25 Posts: 45
    Bump
  • Inebriated
    Inebriated Posts: 271
    Wondering this too, bump.
  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,458 Member
    I would use the entry in the databas titled as below:

    Beef - Loin, bottom sirloin butt, tri-tip steak, lean only, cooked, broiled - - - - - 500 g

    Cal 1,250

    0 Carbs

    66 Fat

    153 Protein

    104 Iron
  • issyfit
    issyfit Posts: 1,077 Member
    I made stew yesterday and used the one that says "beef-stew meat".
  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,458 Member
    I made stew yesterday and used the one that says "beef-stew meat".

    Yeah, that one is very close to the one I used!

    They would both work. The one I used had grams, but they are pretty much the same.
  • ghostwor1d
    ghostwor1d Posts: 20 Member
    Usually beef stew meat is a chewier type like chuck roast.
  • issyfit
    issyfit Posts: 1,077 Member
    I like to add red wine to my stew but wasn't sure how to count that because some of it cooks off. Any ideas?
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