Hello new here and have a question about measuring. Please help me out here much appreciated.

Kristinak222

When do I measure sauteed veggies?
If I am making sauteed mushrooms, I would enter sauteed mushrooms. I entered 2 cups, but that was 2 cups of fresh mushrooms, but mushroom reduce quite a bit. So literally if I pick sauteed mushrooms I should enter what they are after they are cooked. So if I making a veggie scramble, in order to find the amount of sauteed mushrooms am I going to have to cook all the veggies separately?????

Virkati

I weigh all of my food BEFORE I cook it. I enter it into MFP as raw, because a lot of the time that's actually how I eat it but I don't change it even if I cook it. So no, you don't have to cook them separately but you should *measure* them separately. That's also helpful when you're tracking particular nutrients, if you need higher iron, you can increase the veggie with that and decrease the one without it...see what I mean?

ETA: I just looked at your profile...way to go girl!!! Keep up the great work!

malibu927

The entries will usually be for raw ingredients unless they state cooked. Also, you're better off using a food scale rather than cups, as the latter only gives volume and not how much you are really eating.