chicken salad

[Chief]

this prob isnt the best place to post but I was afraid if i put it in food and pt issues it wouldn't get noticed. I had about 1/5th of a C of chicken salad today I think (based on # of teaspoons i scooped out of container) and the container did not have a label. I've been to sites like dotties, www.nutritiondata.com, (http://www.nutritiondata.com,) and www.calorieking.com, (http://www.calorieking.com,) and for the life of me I cannot figure out the aprox # of pts. HELP

TIA
Cheryl

[Frisky]

That's less than 2 ounces of chicken which averages 1 point per ounce. MasterCook says 1/4 cup chicken is 74 calories, 0 fiber, 5 grams fat for 1.89 pounds rounded up to 2 points. The killer would be the mayo or whatever they used to make it a salad. If I was guessing points, I'd err on the high side and call it 4 points minimum then add for the bread or crackers if you consumed any.

[Chief]

I am very bad at guessing portion sizes and i am very weary of this so let me give you more info. Today is the start of my week. Having all my FP I thought I'd have a little splurge for dinner. 5 mini bagels w/tuna salad and a bag of baked lays. Tuna salad is listed on www.nutritiondata.com (http://www.nutritiondata.com) , but for some reason chicken salad isn't. How do they compare? I ended up getting chicken salad instead. For 1C tuna salad it says 383cal & 19g fat. I ended up only being able to eat 3 mini bagels. The website says a mini bagel is 72cal and 1g fiber each, which puts them @ 4pts. I am so horrible at guessing portion sizes, I was just assuming I would end up eating a full cup but after I finished dinner I wasn't sure, so I tried to remember how many spoonfuls I put on there. I think it was like 6 to 8 teaspoons. Does that sound right? I was using a plastic spoon. I hate being in college, nothing in this school has a label on it, and I hate guessing all of the time. To me this sounds like an awfully low amount of pts. I still have chicken salad left, but I am going to throw it out. I will eat it just because it is there, and I don't need it.

Cheryl

[Chief]

Ok, so I did end up eating the rest of it @ like around 4:30 in the morning cause I was hungry. I couldn't sleep last night... my schedule is so off I went to bed @ like 6:30 am. I think i had half a cup. Half a cup of tuna salad is 4pts but that seems low to me.

Cheryl

[LawDawg]

Really it depends on the mayo and the amount used. When I make Tuna Salad it is roughy 4 points. I use an entire can of tuna (3 points) and 1 TBSP of lite Mayo for 1 point. Pickle relish celery and pepper have no points. It makes a little more than a half cup, but if you used full fat mayo there is no way you'd keep it at 4 points unless its super dry. 1 TBSP isn't very much mayo, but it is moist. Not oozing and no clumps of just mayo. The salad is pretty flaky not pasty.

[Chief]

That's why it seems low to me. I have 7pts that I could spend on the chicken salad without dipping into my flexies. I need to save a lot for Wens so I hope I didn't go over. I didn't make it and that is the prob. There were no clumps of just mayo, but it was mayonaisy.

Cheryl