Counting Salads

(Brenna) #1

Do you guys count lettuce or salads (not salad dressing) towards your allotted carb count?

I would deeply appreciate it.

(Lazy, Dirty Keto šŸ˜) #2

Yes

(squirrel-kissing paper tamer) #3

I have a tantrum every time but yes, I do.

(Brenna) #4

Lolz Thanx for that.

#5

I do, not all lettuces or leafy greens have the same amounts, but I think most like arugula, spinach, and iceberg have about 1 carb per cupā€¦so really low. Adding other stuff can be more significant though like tomatoes, avocado, etc.

(Full Metal KETO AF) #6

I do and I use a scale, cups arenā€™t an accurate way to estimate fluffy greens. Easy to think itā€™s way more usually.

(Jill F.) #7

Basically yes, I take into consideration everything I wat that has carbs like lettuce or brocolli for examples. I am still in weight loss mode so as long as I eat keto and continue to lose weight I dont worry about small carb amounts like lettuce. I never got fat eating lettuce before! It was all the other stuff that made me gain like dressing, croutons, etc.

(Brenna) #8

ok. thank you. Iā€™m not sure if I should count them or not. but thanx for the input.

(traci simpson) #9

Butterhead, Boston & Bibb Lettuce is 1.23 (g)

(charlie3) #10

I eat a very large salad of non starchy veggies, olive oil, vinegar, and seasonings most every day. Every few months I weigh out all the ingrediants of a sample salad and list them in ounces. I put that into cronometer as a recipe. May be the ingrediants vary from one salad to the nex but on average itā€™s going to be close enough. Besides carbs crono also gives an estimate of micros. Crono has a feature where I can remove suppliments and see how close Iā€™m coming to rdaā€™s, or some other value Iā€™ve set, without them.