Carbs and cals and which rice to choose for chinese takeaway chicken fried rice

[mum2westiesGill]

On carbs and cals they've got chinese egg fried rice


and I've noticed they've got chinese special fried rice but for my purposes of weighing my food out which of the rices would you go with for chicken fried rice?

 

[Leadinglights]

Our local take away the special fried rice has bits of pork, chicken, ham and prawns in and is slightly spicy.

 

[mum2westiesGill]

Our local take away the special fried rice has bits of pork, chicken, ham and prawns in and is slightly spicy.

Thanks @Leadinglights and it sounds very tasty but you've misread my question which was for my purposes of weighing my chicken fried rice which rice would you go with on carbs and cals - the egg fried rice or the special fried rice?

 

[Leadinglights]

Thanks @Leadinglights and it sounds very tasty but you've misread my question which was for my purposes of weighing my chicken fried rice which rice would you go with on carbs and cals - the egg fried rice or the special fried rice?

Presumably weight for weight the special fried rice would be closer as it will have meat in which would not contribute to the carbs but will depend on the proportion of chicken to rice. Unless you know what is in their special fried rice it is hard to say and your best guess might have to be good enough.

 

[Sally71]

Is there much difference between the two in carbs and cals? If not maybe it doesn’t matter which you use. I think Leadinglights has a good point though, special fried rice has bits of meat in so is probably similar in weight and in roughly how much of the weight is taken up by the rice itself.

 

[nonethewiser]

Egg fried rice, just b its of eggs cooked thru so not much weight there mainly rice.

 

[mum2westiesGill]

@Leadinglights & @Sally71 thanks for your replies - I'm going to use the special fried rice and leave the chicken in the rice when I'm weighing it - normally if I have prawn/shrimp fried rice I pick all the prawns out and weigh the rice on its own and use the egg fried rice