counting oil?

hi everyone, this may be a silly question but when you eat out at someone's house or a restaurant i suppose, and youre pretty sure all the food was cooked in oil, the veggies and chicken etc, how do you count the food?  do you count the chciken and then add say a tbspn oil, more?  how do you do it?

thanks!

I don't know if it's accurate at all. But I use CC to look up a restaurant prepared meal similar to the one I ate. Since there are a few restaurants who have the guts to share with us what we're paying them to eat, I'm able to do this.

thanks, altho i cant find some of the stuff...

anyone else?

I don't think you're going to get much better advice than that. How oily/greasy was the stuff? Do you have any experience cooking so that you have something to compare it to?

If I eat some nasty take out food, and a fair amount of it, I'll usually add about 2 tbsp of oil to my estimate, and sort of hope that I'm guessing high. That's about as much as I'll add. Some chicken that was browned in oil but isn't greasy per se? I'd add about 1-1.5 tsp. Green beans with almonds that look shiny with oil? Maybe 2 tsp (my dining hall at school apparently didn't think green beans were properly cooked unless they were coated in vegetable oil). I always add some random oil when I eat out, even if it didn't seem very greasy, because you know they're adding something.

Getting experience cooking with oil so you know what a good amount looks and tastes like will be your best bet for developing a better strategy.

yea, i dont cook w oil at home but think i should start to, esp since it could be healthy for me too.  but since i dont have experience w/ it im a bit clueless.  i ended up adding 2 tblspns vegetable oil, is that even the right one?  well i added 2tbspns for a peice of chicken and vegetables and some random other bites.  i dunno

i always think about that as well! what i do is one of two things:

1. I just add about 300 calories more to the entire meal to compensate

2. I speculate the amount of oil used in my food based on what type of food i ordered and if it was extra greasy. For instance, if I order fish, I know it will be cooked in oil if it is grilled. However, if I was getting a salad, then clearly there isnt oil in it (just the dressing).

What you're describing is why it's almost impossible to calorie-count and eat out at the same time.   Even when the restaurant calorie-counts their menu there's nothing to stop a generous chef adding an extra knob of butter etc.  It's also why it's best to home-cook as much of your food as possible and eat out rather less frequently if you're trying to get in better control of your diet... either for weight-loss or weight-gain.

thanks everyone!  in this situation i actually ate at a relative's house who deff used oil generously.  since i dont yet cook w/ oil i was unsure how to account for it, like chicken cooked in oil and then vegetables cooked in oil.

i decided to add 2tbspns on vegetable? oil to my log.  sound right?

I think that is a safe guess, erring on the high side, which is what I would do.