How to count Protein When you Don't Eat it All????
Today I was able to have a grilled chicken salad. HAHAHA Some of a grilled chicken salad anyway. I ate 3/4 of the grilled chicken provided and not even 1/4 of the salad. The nutrition info stated the salad had 29g of protein. I know most of the protein is the chicken, but how do I calculate? I'm thinking 18g of protein. What would you do? When eating out, obviously we can't eat it all so how do we calculate protein?
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HW (1/1/2011): 382. SW (4/15/2011): 357. CW (03/29/2012): 275.
Sleeved on 4-15-11
HW (1/1/2011): 382. SW (4/15/2011): 357. CW (03/29/2012): 275.
Sleeved on 4-15-11 
You will have to guesstimate based on the size of the pieces of chicken, and approximately how much you ate. 4 tablespoons? 1/3 cup? etc. Thats the best you can do with eating out. You can also ask the waitress to ask the chef how much grilled chicken does he/she put in each salad. You can bet they measure it out. It wouldn't be financially feasable to just toss some in each salad. They know they have for example 6oz chicken breasts, and each salad gets one or half of one etc. Then you can sort of judge how much of the amount you ate.
Just break down the foods individually. Find out what an ounce of chicken looks like, or ask how many ounces they put in the salad and go from there. (A deck of cards equals 4 ounces of dense protein, deli meats are usually 1 ounce per slice)
A good guess is 7 grams of protein per ounce of meat (chicken, fish, pork, beef), egg, tofu or cheese.
1/4 cup of cottage cheese is 7 grams.
1 cup of milk is about 8.
You can find protein in nuts, beans and other legumes, soy (edamame YUM, tofu, soy milk etc.) and other places like protein drinks too.
Once you get a rough idea how much you ate, use a protein chart from online to check for sure.
Hope this helps a little.
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