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d-roc d-roc
Sun, Jul 3, 2011 20:07
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Rinsing yo meat.
So I was cooking ground beef tonight, mixing it with some veggies. Was the first time I'd cooked ground beef since I started my diet. So I decided to check the cals. 350 Calories for 1/4th of the 73/27 ground beef. Quite a bit of it is from fat. So I decided after cooking it and straining it to rinse it off since obviously a lot of fat coats it. Curious I went searching to see if this really did much good. Apparently according to some studies, rinsing and blotting dry ground beef and reduce the amount of calories per serving by up to 100 cals and 2/3's fat

http://www.beefnutrition.org/CMDocs/BeefNutrition/ReducingFatinCookedGroundBeef.pdf

Is ground chicken fatty? Would this be a good process for it as well?

rmatt06 rmatt06
Tue, Jul 5, 2011 19:07
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Ground turkey
I use Grounded turkey which is delicious and great.

freakfreeloader freakfreeloader
Edmonton AB
Fri, Jul 8, 2011 10:07
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Rinsing
Ground chicken and turkey don't have near the grease in the pan after cooking. I do rinse and blot dry my ground beef didn"t think it reduce the amount of calories that much. Good to know.

zuke354 zuke354
Tue, Jul 12, 2011 09:07
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Ground beef
I suggest using a leaner ground beef. 73/27 is pretty fatty. I use 93/7 and still blot and poor off greese.

Ground chicken, I am not sure about but I do like ground turkey. However you have to be carefull. Just becasue its ground turkey doesn't mean its any healthier.

If you go the turkey route, look for lean ground turkey, or ground turkey breasts. a "healthy" ground turkey should have around a 170 calories/7 grams of fat or less. It also has less nutriants and flavor than beef, so i don't always use it in place of beef.

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