weighing food

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kdblpn
kdblpn Posts: 147 Member
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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?

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  • callsitlikeiseeit
    callsitlikeiseeit Posts: 8,627 Member
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    weigh everything raw
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
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    callsitlikeiseeit wrote: »
    weigh everything raw

    yep. and log it as 'raw'
  • frannyupnorth
    frannyupnorth Posts: 56 Member
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    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
    Francl27 Posts: 26,372 Member
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    Raw if possible. If not, use 'cooked' entries.
  • grim_traveller
    grim_traveller Posts: 626 Member
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    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
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
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    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
    ultrahoon Posts: 467 Member
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    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!

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