{"id":1063,"date":"2016-01-30T20:50:29","date_gmt":"2016-01-31T02:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cluckeyo.com\/blog\/?p=1063"},"modified":"2016-01-30T20:50:29","modified_gmt":"2016-01-31T02:50:29","slug":"how-about-a-homemade-hamburger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cluckeyo.com\/blog\/index.php\/2016\/01\/30\/how-about-a-homemade-hamburger\/","title":{"rendered":"How About a Homemade Hamburger"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It’s plenty easy to count the calories of a hamburger from your favorite restaurant. Just go to google and look up the nutrition menu for that restaurant. But my favorite hamburger is the one I\u00a0make at home.\u00a0 They do have a lot of calories, so I\u00a0have to work it into my\u00a0day. This means I need to plan for it in\u00a0advance.<\/p>\n

A big, juicy hamburger is the kind of thing I would want to enjoy for supper. \u00a0So when I know I am going to have a big supper, I need to compensate for it during the rest of my day.\u00a0Fruits and vegetables are good choices. I don’t even count the calories on pure fruits and vegetables. I do count starchy vegetables, however, such as beans and peas, potatoes, avocados. A\u00a0banana for breakfast would be a good choice. A can of spinach would make a great lunch. \u00a0I want to keep the calories as low as possible during the day, but I won’t have to eliminate them completely. One\u00a0big, juicy hamburger, the way I make it, is about 800 calories. \u00a0I like to eat around 1500 per day. So maybe a cup of 1% milk would go good with that banana. I might have some whole grain crackers with my spinach. Not exciting, but fills me up and allows room for supper.<\/p>\n

When preparing the hamburger, I choose 85\/15 ground meat, and I use 1\/3# cutter. It’s nice and big, and this way I get a uniform size, so I get close to the same calories in the meat every time. I have a grill disk that I lay in the bottom of my skillet which keeps the meat up off the bottom of the pan and allows the fat to drain off. \u00a0And I allow it to cook on 6, just until the juices run clear when pricked. The disk cooks a much better piece of meat than just letting it float in grease on the bottom of the pan. \u00a0And it turns out big and juicy. My daughter has a nice grill pan, but since I don’t, I bought this disk and it works just as well as her pan does.<\/p>\n

The first time I made hamburgers, I weighed my cooked patty on my digital scale, took the total value of grams and researched it in google, to arrive at my total amount of calories. \u00a0It’s not really necessary to do that again since I am using a uniform cutter, so long as I make the hamburgers the same way every time.<\/p>\n

I really like a good bun and they have some called “Cobblestone” at
\nWal-Mart. \u00a0 I like to butter both sides with a total of 1 TBSP of butter, and toast it in the oven.\u00a0I have to count that, and the meat\u00a0and\u00a0cheddar (1 oz). I don’t think it is necessary to count the veges. \u00a0I just use lettuce, tomato, and onion. I choose\u00a0mustard over\u00a0mayo, and\u00a0skip the fries. \u00a0All this together comes up to about 800 calories. \u00a0I don’t worry about figuring all this out until after I have enjoyed my meal, although I might have to jot down a couple of numbers.<\/p>\n

In the end I just need to put it in my book. \u00a0Once it’s in the book, and if I use the same method each time, I will not have to figure it out again, I can just look at my book. It might use up the rest of my calories for the day, but if it does, rest assured I will be satisfied. Because there\u00a0are not many things\u00a0more delicious than a good ole’ homemade hamburger.<\/p>\n

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It’s plenty easy to count the calories of a hamburger from your favorite restaurant. Just go to google and look up the nutrition menu for that restaurant. But my favorite hamburger is the one I\u00a0make at home.\u00a0 They do have a lot of calories, so I\u00a0have to work it into my\u00a0day. This means I need … Continue reading How About a Homemade Hamburger<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,15,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-calorie-crusaders","category-cooking","category-helpful-tips","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cluckeyo.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cluckeyo.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cluckeyo.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cluckeyo.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cluckeyo.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1063"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/cluckeyo.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1187,"href":"https:\/\/cluckeyo.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063\/revisions\/1187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cluckeyo.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cluckeyo.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cluckeyo.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}