Sport Replacing chicken with ground beef

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Well, of course, it depends. I'm not quite sure I fully understand your question. Do you mean replace chicken with ground beef in a particular recipe? Or are you just a big chicken eater and you want to eat more beef instead of chicken, for whatever reason? In any case, sure, you can eat ground beef. It's a better source of iron than chicken. Of course, it's a great source of protein, but then again, so it chicken. Regardless of whether you are eating chicken or beef, I recommend the most natural stuff you can get. Not necessarily certified organic, although that would be good. In any case, try to avoid meat/poultry with antibiotics and hormones. Ground beef is generally fattier than chicken, depending on what you're buying and how you are cooking it, but you can buy lean ground beef and minimize your fat. Both beef and chicken fat is mostly unhealthy saturated fat, so try to get the leanest product you can, whether you're buying beef or chicken. If you are attempting to increase muscle mass, it's not as important to minimize your saturated fat intake as compared to someone looking to lose weight, but all people should limit their saturated fat intake. When you cook ground beef on a grill at high temperatures, it can form cancer-causing compounds. That's not to say you shouldn't ever eat meat off of the grill, but you might want to limit how often you do it. Of course, you also need to make sure ground beef is cooked well enough to prevent foodborne illness.
 
NoU said:
is this acceptable?
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It can be. Especially on a low carb diet. If it were me, I would choose ground chuck (over 90%, and very low fat ratio). I am currently on a low carb diet, so this fits rather perfectly.


EDIT: But I would not suggest to replace the chicken (unless you dont like it), there are many ways to fix the mighty and powerful chicken breast, baby! :)

Best wishes,

Chillen
 
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Beef is not as lean as chicken. If you do decide to replace it go with Sirloin. That would be the leanest. Also makes a bomb ass burger on the grill. Or you could always go ground turkey if you are cooking it in something like tacos, spaghetti, chili etc.
 
Yes chillen is right so many ways you ever try it fresh? I mean like steal one from a farm and eat it while your running? its a good Cardio workout at the same time.
 
Epididymis said:
Yes chillen is right so many ways you ever try it fresh? I mean like steal one from a farm and eat it while your running? its a good Cardio workout at the same time.
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:rofl:

Hey! If it keeps you motivated, burns calories, gets the blood moving, and is cost effective........ALL THE POWER, baby! :)


Best wishes

Chillen
 
subdude said:
Well, of course, it depends. I'm not quite sure I fully understand your question. Do you mean replace chicken with ground beef in a particular recipe? Or are you just a big chicken eater and you want to eat more beef instead of chicken, for whatever reason? In any case, sure, you can eat ground beef. It's a better source of iron than chicken. Of course, it's a great source of protein, but then again, so it chicken. Regardless of whether you are eating chicken or beef, I recommend the most natural stuff you can get. Not necessarily certified organic, although that would be good. In any case, try to avoid meat/poultry with antibiotics and hormones. Ground beef is generally fattier than chicken, depending on what you're buying and how you are cooking it, but you can buy lean ground beef and minimize your fat. Both beef and chicken fat is mostly unhealthy saturated fat, so try to get the leanest product you can, whether you're buying beef or chicken. If you are attempting to increase muscle mass, it's not as important to minimize your saturated fat intake as compared to someone looking to lose weight, but all people should limit their saturated fat intake. When you cook ground beef on a grill at high temperatures, it can form cancer-causing compounds. That's not to say you shouldn't ever eat meat off of the grill, but you might want to limit how often you do it. Of course, you also need to make sure ground beef is cooked well enough to prevent foodborne illness.
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Good answer + Rep :)
 
usually the butcher at the store can/will grind up any meat you want. you can pick out some top round, and have them make ground round.

typically 'ground beef' is a lot of scrap meat, and even the 'diet lean' stuff isn't as lean as ground round or ground sirloin.
 
Yup, it's perfectly fine to thougg it in to your daily intake. Just be conscsious that it will have more fat than chicken so you will have to make sure you don't over consume your fat intake for that particular meal.

I personally like using chicken breast so I can add a nice chunk of real cheese, natural pb, etc, as a fat with it.
 
I get 96% lean ground beef...eat it all the time
 
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