How would one go about counting the calories in a marinated veggie salad. Ie veggies soaked in Italian dressing. You just eat the veggies and drain off the dressing into the container but some coats the veggies and stuff. How do you count the calories ?

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I guess it depends on what it is marinated in. Did you make it?

If you know the individual ingredients then you can calculate each ingredient separately.

Sometimes, especially for restaurant food, I just do a search in MyFitnessPal to see what similar things come up.

As a rule of thumb, when estimating, I try to underestimate my Protein and overestimate carbs and fats.

Yes I made it - it has veggies marinated in Italian dressing (should've done lite but I really hate it lol) however it is all veggies : Broccoli, cauliflower, tomato, carrots, cucumber, and green pepper is what's in it. + like half a bottle of the dressing (though the amount of servings is a ton it made a gigantic bowl.. I wouldn't begin to know how to calculate the servings it has -in- it because the bowl was very large..

I think all the veggies are calorie free right? so it's literally just the dressing.

Okay after a lot of work.. 24 Tbs (90 cal for 2 tb) in the salad (2160 cal) + huge bowl of veggies which are very small in calories I measured it out to about 20 servings

2160 / 20 = 108 - maybe 25 cals each serving for the veggies. SO

About 140 calories per serving. - to be safe 150 calories a serving. Wow.. Lots of work LOL

My salad is 33-35 calories. 15 calories for veggies, zero calories for dressing and 20 calories for a sprinkling of cheese.

Calorie free dressing

https://www.waldenfarms.com/products/dressings.html

The best way to calculate calories is with weight, so weigh each type of veggie, and weigh the dressing. If you use a food tracking app, you can make recipes in it and it will do all the math for you

Next time I make this I'll do it that way.. would've been sooo much easier lol.

The best way to calculate calories is with weight, so weigh each type of veggie, and weigh the dressing. If you use a food tracking app, you can make recipes in it and it will do all the math for you

Duh...why didn't I think about that. I do weigh meat and such to make sure I am getting enough Protein, but I had been doing dry measure of the other stuff.

That reminds me of this story:

Thomas Edison's Light Bulb Test

Thomas Edison, the inventor of the incandescent bulb, was an incessant inventor. When he needed to expand his staff, he employed an unusual technique for interviewing the engineers for positions on his staff. Every prospective applicant who came in for an interview was handed a light bulb. Edison then asked the engineer to determine the exact amount of Water the bulb could hold.

Edison knew very well that there were two basic ways an applicant could determine the correct answer to his question.

The first, was to apply several engineering gauges and mathematical protractors to each of the complex angles of the glass bulb. Then, using a slide ruler and applying basic logarithmic formulas, the applicant could calculate the inside surface area of the light bulb which would allow him to determine the total volume of the glass bulb. This approach would take an experienced engineering applicant approximately twenty minutes to solve the answer.

The second method an applicant could use to find the answer was to remove the brass base from the bulb and then fill the bulb with water. Once the bulb was filled with water, its contents could easily be poured into a measuring cup or laboratory beaker mug to determine the exact amount of water it could hold. This method generally took less than two minutes.

Nearly all the engineers who used the first method to calculate the volume of water a light bulb could hold were politely thanked for their time and sent on their way. However, the applicants who used the second method were greeted warmly by Mr. Edison who asked, "When can you start?

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Weighing salad veggies is so much easier and you get better results because you don't have the volume issues.