I am thinking about making taco salad for dinner tomorrow. Our taco salad consists of: ground chuck, taco bell taco seasoning mix, lettuce, sour cream, shredded mild cheddar cheese, tomatoes, sometimes onions. Sometimes I also smash up doritoes in the lettuce and meat mixture... but I don't think that would be a good idea. I like to do that though because it gives it that taco crunch.

Anyway, I have no idea how to figure the calories and stuff for this. Ground chuck does not have N/I info. on the package. And the taco seasoning mix packet, I am sure that N/I is based on the seasoning only, not the meat. The rest of the ingrediants I can figure out. But I am stuck about the meat part.

Any info. would be appreciated. TIA!

Try here Tracy .... there's too many choices for me to guess what your chuck is like
http://www.calorieking.com/foods/cat...category_id=47

Sounds a bit naughty, doesn't it .... guess what your chuck is like

Does sound naughty lol.

I can't find anything on ground chuck or hamburger or anything. They gave me links to McDonalds, wendys, and other places sandwiches but that was it. I put in ground meat and it still came up with nothing.

What else can ground chuck or hamburger be called? Lol.

I find it on fitday by putting in patty.. lol It only specify's ground beef though. I weigh my meat before I eat it too. Then use websites to tally up oz's.

Thats it! Ground beef or beef duhh me lol.

Well going by beef lean pan fried... it is over 200 calories for 3 oz! That seems like a lot!! Not sure if taco salad is worth it!

I used to love eating the huge taco bowl shaped shell stuffed with bunches of hamburger, sour cream (the only way I eat it), ect. Im usually a white meat only person. Since red meat is harder on the body to digest. I think I need to see if my scales are right by weighing something in it.. I had meatloaf yesterday and I think 2 oz's was like 260 calories. Again though I thought that was "alot" of meat too.

Yeah right! Gotta have it with extra sour cream!!! But I was going to do normal servings of it though. We probably will not have that for dinner. That is high in calories! Not worth it much to me! However, I might check into the calories for chicken (shredded or cubed chicken) salad with taco seasoning. I have done that before! It is yummy too! That might be less on the calories. I will try to remember to check out the calories for that today.

I never new that red meat was harder on our body. Sounds yucky lol.

I bought a food scale from walmart.... it was digital. It was a waste. I smashed it and thru it away not to long ago. It never measured right. Now I just use the scale I bought off of ebay to sell on ebay lol. It works really good. It is just a normal scale. But I do mostly measuring cups... that is easier too most of the time. 2 oz. equals ¼ of a cup. If that helps.

Tracy, there's all kinds of ground beef at the bottom of the link I gave you. I think it works. But if you've found something at fitday ... that's much easier.
How did you make out?

Lol.... blonde moment! I went back in there and seen it this time!! Duhhh me! I don't see ground chuck anywhere though. I found something simuliar yesterday on calorieking and it was higher in calories. So I might skip that though.

One more thing just as a thought. Krogers will send you a nutrients chart through email for any of there meats. If you bought the meat there. Then you can add it to your fitday or even maybe write it down.

One way to lower the calories in hamburger (reguardless of the kind) is to drain it after you cook it, pour in a cup of water, heat to boiling and strain. Gets rid of a lot of fat!

Also, I forgot toadd, how about baked chips in the salad? You would still have that crunch. Or the WOW ones? Dieting is not about depriving yourself. It's about changing the way you eat and think about food. You can have anything, just not as much. Change the way you cook and look for new ideals. Lots of good recipes here!