Calorie Counting Question?

Question

I'm trying to count my calories. For lunch, I had a boneless, skinless chicken breast. I baked it with about 2 Tbsp. of olive oil and some spices. The bag of chicken breast had the nutritional facts on it saying that the piece of chicken (serving size) was 120 calories. The olive oil bottle said that a Tbsp. of olive oil has 120 calories in it. Do I have to count that like I ate those 2 Tbsp. even though I'm sure that some of it drained off into the juices left in the baking pain?

Answer 1

I would count 1/2 of the olive oil calories, b/c that is about how much was absorbed. a great tool is www.fitday.com. I almost live by it!

Answer 2

Unless you drank the oil or it was all absorbed by the chicken, then you didn't eat it all. The problem is that it's kind of hard now to know how much added oil you did eat.

But look at what you did. You took a healthy piece of chicken, and added literally twice as many calories worth of fat to it. Why? There's absolutely no need to do this. Cook the chicken without the oil and you won't have this problem in the first place.

Answer 3

I'd count at least a Tbsp. Oil was probably absorbed in the cooking process, or made the outside of your chicken a nice golden brown.

If you are really concerned, try the marvelous George Foreman grill, or heavy duty Hard-anadized Aluminum cookware. Both don't require oil and are non-stick. Or, preheat stainless steel cookware. Or, spray with PAM before cooking.

Answer 4

Whoah! You cooked one chicken breast in 2 Tbs oil? That's just crazy - you used way too much oil. Use Pam or something next time.

But, no - I'd just count for 1 Tbs.

Answer 5

I think the chicken and a few extra calories for the oil would be a good idea. Say 175 calories?

Answer 6

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