Hi all.
I'm making a beef curry tonight in my slow cooker (yum yum!). Since I'm counting calories, I went ahead and analysed the recipe.
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 1/2 pounds chuck steak
1/4 cup flour
2 medium onions, sliced
1 can diced tomatos
3/4 cup beef broth
(plus spices, but I don't worry about analysing those)
I analysied this at caloriecount.about.com. There's no way that one serve of this could have 375 calories and 19 grams of fat (6 serves). The beef that I'm using is trimmed of all fat (before cooking and during eating, I hate the texture of fat!). Unfortunately, I can't find any beef nutritional information that doesn't have beef that's been trimmed to 1/4" fat.
Do any of you have problems with this kind of analysis- when you count up all the calories in a recipe and divide by the servings, but not only do you not eat everything, but there's extra fat left over? How many calories do you substract? How much fat? Should I just take this calorie count with a grain of salt, so to speak?