weighing food

kdblpn

I got a food scale for Christmas and want to start weighing my food. I am sure this question has been asked a million times but here is one million and one.... do i weigh meats before or after cooking... what about veggies and other foods?

callsitlikeiseeit

weigh everything raw

TavistockToad

callsitlikeiseeit wrote: »

weigh everything raw

yep. and log it as 'raw'

frannyupnorth

It's generally much easier to weigh before cooking for most things, especial pasta & rice!
I personally try to be as accurate as possible when measuring fats & other energy dense foods, whereas with the likes of raw veggies you can afford to be little more slap dash. The reason, say 100g olive oil has 884kcals and 100g carrots have 41kcals, if I accidentally put an extra 1g (nothing) in with the oil that's 9kcals, but only 1/2kcal if it were carrots.

Francl27

Raw if possible. If not, use 'cooked' entries.

grim_traveller

This used to be very confusing, because there were no standards or guidelines, and different manufacturers and sellers did things different ways.

In 2012, the government began requiring that meat and poultry have nutrition labels for the first time. And those labels have the nutrition information for RAW meat, not cooked.

Sued0nim

kdblpn wrote: »

I got a food scale for Christmas and want to start weighing my food. I am sure this question has been asked a million times but here is one million and one.... do i weigh meats before or after cooking... what about veggies and other foods?

Did you get a time machine too?

ultrahoon

Before cooking, unless you're using a pack of bacon or something where the nutritional info is specifically listed as 'cooked'. I ended up with a lot of '-5G, fats' in my diary whenever I cooked bacon before I realised!