Chicken drumsticks

jane82

Fifty grams of protein in two of them. Huge calorie amounts too. Ok they are a bit greasy.
Without skin are they the greatest food out there for adding good weight or am I doing it wrong.
I eat 4 a day for breakfast and Im ready to eat again in an hour because the dont fill you atall.

cletus van damme

jane82 wrote: »

Fifty grams of protein in two of them. Huge calorie amounts too. Ok they are a bit greasy.
Without skin are they the greatest food out there for adding good weight or am I doing it wrong.
I eat 4 a day for breakfast and Im ready to eat again in an hour because the dont fill you atall.

dunno about 50g of protein in two of them.
myfitnesspal has 1 without skin as 13g protein and 5g fat - 105cals

100g of chicken breast is about 30grams of protein.

jane82

cletus van damme wrote: »

dunno about 50g of protein in two of them.
myfitnesspal has 1 without skin as 13g protein and 5g fat - 105cals

100g of chicken breast is about 30grams of protein.

Its on the nutritional info on the box here. Maybe I can sue tesco.

Sangre

Remember you're not eating most of the drumstick as well. You probably need to weigh the amout of chicken actually eaten.

jane82

But the pack specifically says 2 average drumsticks cooked with no skin.

Zillah

I think the pack is lying to you. 50g of protein for two drumsticks sounds optimistic.

Oryx

http://www.fatsecret.com/calories-nutrition/generic/chicken-drumstick-ns-as-to-skin-eaten

jane82

Surely they cant lie about it.
Tesco an lidl one have pretty much the same info on pack.

Alf Veedersane

I think this is the OP is going off:



The figures look a bit suss in the scaling up from 100g with skin

jane82

Alf Veedersane wrote: »

I think this is the OP is going off:



The figures look a bit suss in the scaling up from 100g with skin

Exactly. Seems I was wrong. 56 grammes protein. Thats why my guns are slightly bigger than I thought they should be.

Oryx

If uncooked 10 weigh 1kg (I see 11 in the pic but bear with me anyway) then cooked they will be lighter. So no way two of them will weigh 225g.

jane82

Alf Veedersane wrote: »

I think this is the OP is going off:



The figures look a bit suss in the scaling up from 100g with skin

100g raw

rubadub

jane82 wrote: »

Surely they cant lie about it.

See the word "typical", in the marketing school they teach you this must go before your lies.

I have seen these packs some have a lot more smaller ones some have just a few large ones.

The pack shows 11, the weight of 1 with skin removed is supposedly 112.5g, so even if this claimed weight was skin on it would be over 1kg.

The full chickens are usually better value.

jane82

What are safest ways to make a full chicken last?.
2 legs 2 wings breakfast.
2 breasts lunch and dinner?
Is there anymore on it?

Oryx

Would you not buy a pack of chicken breasts? Butchers usually have them on offer if you bulk buy. Wrap them in twos and threes and freeze them.

As for the whole chicken - take as much meat off the bones and make curry or something - (you didnt mention the olives, I think theyre called, on the underside), and boil the carcass for stock.

jane82

Oryx wrote: »

Would you not buy a pack of chicken breasts? Butchers usually have them on offer if you bulk buy. Wrap them in twos and threes and freeze them.

As for the whole chicken - take as much meat off the bones and make curry or something - (you didnt mention the olives, I think theyre called, on the underside), and boil the carcass for stock.

I do eat breasts but they have to be the most tasteless meat ever. I suppose dowseing them in curry helps.
I need to start meal planning better. Do a huge sunday cook and freeze.

conzy

Looking at it what they have done is just taken the weight of two typical drumsticks and multiplied that by the nutrition per 100g values.

They are assuming that there is 225g of edible meat on 225g of drumsticks..

I'd say you would be lucky to get 100g of meat on two drumsticks.

rubadub

jane82 wrote: »

What are safest ways to make a full chicken last?.
2 legs 2 wings breakfast.
2 breasts lunch and dinner?
Is there anymore on it?

The breasts on full chickens tend to be a lot bigger than your standard "10 for a tenner" breasts which are 120-140g. This can skew peoples idea of how good value a full chicken is.

jane82 wrote: »

I do eat breasts but they have to be the most tasteless meat ever.

I used to roast a full chicken, let it cool and tear off all the meat and mix it up, I did not like the dryness of breast, nor the fattiness of the other bits, a mixture is perfect for me.

Recently I cut the breasts off one and cooked separate. I threw the entire leftovers into a pressure cooker and made it into a soup/stew type thing. If doing again I would probably not put the skin in. The meat just falls off, I never really liked the task of picking at a chicken.