{"id":503,"date":"2015-11-13T08:49:03","date_gmt":"2015-11-13T08:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cluckeyo.com\/blog\/?p=503"},"modified":"2018-09-28T23:47:28","modified_gmt":"2018-09-29T04:47:28","slug":"rib-eye-steaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cluckeyo.com\/blog\/index.php\/2015\/11\/13\/rib-eye-steaks\/","title":{"rendered":"Rib Eye Steaks"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A simple, delicious steak.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On almost any diet I have ever done, I found it pretty hard to have a nice big steak. So many calories, I thought. \u00a0Since calorie counting is my lifetime plan, I approach things like steaks, quite differently now. After all, I want to have steak in my life. \u00a0So I better learn how to make it work with calorie counting.<\/p>\n

Tonight, we grilled some mouth-watering rib eyes! \u00a0They were quite large, we got them from Sam’s Club. \u00a0About an inch thick. At first I thought, I\u00a0would just have steak and nothing else. \u00a0Then I thought, we won’t do this too often. So I just won’t bother with calorie counting tonight. \u00a0Finally\u00a0I realized that I have a great little electronic digital scale. \u00a0And I could weigh out my meal in nothing flat.<\/p>\n

I had saved up my calories almost all day in anticipation of our meal. I decided that I would eat my whole steak, not just half. \u00a0And I would have all the trimmings. \u00a0So my plan was to weigh my meal and enjoy it. \u00a0I would look up my totals afterward. I was not sure exactly what I was getting myself into, and I decided that if I went over, I would deal with it.<\/p>\n

So I got the potatoes ready and Glenn brought in the steaks. \u00a0Here is how I weighed out my meal:<\/p>\n

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  1. I got out a clean plate, set it on my scale and turned it on. \u00a0The scale set to 0, and I set it to measure in grams.<\/li>\n
  2. I cut the end off of my steak, to give to Valentine, my dog.<\/li>\n
  3. I lay my portion on the clean plate and with pen and paper handy, I quickly jotted down the number on the scale. \u00a0Then I tared the scale, which set it back to 0.<\/li>\n
  4. I left my steak on the plate and added my potato, wrote down the number, and tared the scale again.<\/li>\n
  5. I dipped up an enjoyable\u00a0amount of butter, wrote down the number, and tared the scale.<\/li>\n
  6. I added a nice dollop of\u00a0sour cream, wrote down the number.<\/li>\n
  7. Then I put my dog’s piece on my plate.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    It probably took a total of about 1 minute to do all that. \u00a0And now I had the valuable information I needed to see what it all came up to.<\/p>\n

    I sat the numbers aside and enjoyed my nice,\u00a0warm meal. \u00a0It was delicious, and so satisfying! \u00a0I\u00a0cut my dog a portion into very small pieces, so that I would not get it mixed up with mine. \u00a0And I just dropped her a little piece on the floor every so often. \u00a0We all ate together \ud83d\ude42 Afterwards, I did my calculations.<\/p>\n

    I went to Google and typed in “beef”. \u00a0They have fabulous nutrition information, right there on the search page. \u00a0They had a way to count rib eye and I was able to get a very close idea of the calories in my steak. \u00a0I followed by typing “potato”, “butter”, and “sour cream” into Google. \u00a0I had numbers listed by grams for everything I ate and I was able to know exactly how many calories I had consumed.<\/p>\n

    It turned out to be about 840. \u00a0Not bad at all! \u00a0I actually have calories left over tonight. I’ll eat some veges and fruit, as to get my requirement of fiber. \u00a0I’ll have to take a small calcium pill, in order to get enough for the day. Of course, I have plenty of protein. \u00a0I will still have almost 400 calories left, and I think I will have a Snickers and Dr. Pepper.<\/p>\n

    I love calorie counting! \u00a0It is a wonderful way to undo that old diet mentality, and learn how to eat again! \u00a0If you are in the market for an electronic, digital food scale, I can get you one of premium quality, at a fair price. \u00a0Just comment on this story and let me know.<\/p>\n

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    On almost any diet I have ever done, I found it pretty hard to have a nice big steak. So many calories, I thought. \u00a0Since calorie counting is my lifetime plan, I approach things like steaks, quite differently now. After all, I want to have steak in my life. \u00a0So I better learn how to … Continue reading Rib Eye Steaks<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-calorie-crusaders","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cluckeyo.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503","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=503"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/cluckeyo.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1393,"href":"https:\/\/cluckeyo.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions\/1393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cluckeyo.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cluckeyo.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cluckeyo.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}