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Counting beans


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I make red beans quite a bit and I make mine really soupy.  CC says that a cup of red kidney beans has 225 cals.  My question is that if the actual pieces of beans are only about 1/4 cup with the rest of it being soup (liquid used to cook beans is just seasoned water w/bits of onion, garlic, peppers and celery), wouldn't that just be counted as 1/4 cup serving?  Thanks for any info.

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You could enter your recipe into the recipe analyzer to find out how many calories are in a portion.

Or, in a pinch, you could put a portion through a sieve and only measure the beans that are left.

Thanks and I probably will end up doing the recipe analyzer on these since I do make them quite regularly.  I was just being lazy and wanted a quickie answer to make me feel better about my lunch ;)! 

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