another question: weighing before or after cooking?

absoluttalent

Just curious, but I've noticed that bread is a different weight before and after toasting. I know the same goes for meat and cooking. Should I be weighing and logging food prior to cooking? Or after?

malibu927

Unless it states specifically, before

rankinsect

Generally before, unless the entry you pick specifically refers to the cooked weight.

DeguelloTex

Doesn't matter, as long as you use the correct raw or cooked entry.

Kalikel

If you're logging bread, weigh it before toasting. If you're logging toast, weigh it after. Me, I log it as bread and weigh it before.

Bread's weight changes just based on how old it gets. As the water leaves, it weighs less. There is a huge change between the time it comes out of the pan and when it's cooled. Every day after, it weighs less.

The weight is probably less of an issue for highly processed stuff than it is for home-made, but even the store stuff will weigh less as it stales. So, the calories won't be 100% accurate as the weight goes.

None of this exact. We just do our best. Just make sure that whatever you weigh is the same thing you log.

CoffeeNCardio

absoluttalent wrote: »

Just curious, but I've noticed that bread is a different weight before and after toasting. I know the same goes for meat and cooking. Should I be weighing and logging food prior to cooking? Or after?

Because I make meals for everyone in my family, I choose to weigh after most of the time (just my own portion). Like was said, it just matters what you log. This is a really really GREAT site for finding calorie and other nutritional info if you can't find it in the database. And I find it harder to find accurate (green check mark) entries for cooked items than raw ones. Just search the "name of the food comma cooked comma method of cooking(most basic term you can think of)"

http://nutritiondata.self.com/


It's also an excellent resource for just logging in general. If you find that you keep searching the MFP database and keep coming up with unverified (no check mark needs a double take) foods all with the same name, search the food again at this site, pick the correct entry for what you mean, then copy that name and paste it into the MFP database and it will likely bring up the exact same thing, with the check mark so you don't have to mess around with "create a food".

CoffeeNCardio

I had this exact same problem with cooked broccoli earlier tonight. Solved super quick with this method, and now it's in my frequently used foods forever and I never have to go through that process for this food again:):):)