Did I measure this right?

nicoleaprilhardcastle

I made a fajita bowl for dinner with 4 oz chicken breast ,1/4 c cheese, 100 g bell pepper and 100 g onion. I use a measuring cup for the cheese and oz on the food scale for the chicken, both of which I am familiar with. My scale also measure grams so I weighed out peppers and onions but if seemed like a huge amount of food, especially the veggies. Meal filled the entire bowl. Did I do something wrong with the grams?

AliceDark

100g of onion and 100g of bell pepper is a lot of volume. You probably didn't do anything wrong, although to be as accurate as possible, I would've weighed the cheese as well. (Plus, if you do that, you don't have to wash the measuring cup.)

Ready2Rock206

Why didn't you weigh the cheese?

middlehaitch

Measure everything on the scale. Especially the cheese.
Use grams they can make your weighing more accurate than oz.
weigh out the amount you want to eat you can change the gram amount in the food log.

Cheers, h.

callsitlikeiseeit

the cheese NEEDS to be weighed more than the onion and the bell pepper LOLOLOL

nicoleaprilhardcastle

The serving size on the bag is 1/4 cup so I usually measure in the units given on the serving size. Would 200 g of onion and peppers ( 100 each) fill up a whole cereal bowl?

AliceDark

Bags of shredded cheese typically give a cup measurement and then a gram measurement in parenthesis. The gram measurement is always going to be more accurate than the cup measurement.

middlehaitch

A cup is not a good measurement of cheese as it can compress down to fit more in for the same volume.
If it says 1/4 cup it will also say grams. Use the grams. And weigh on the scale.
Cheese is high fat so the calories add up really fast.
Cheers, h.

seska422

Another good reason to use grams rather than ounces is that packaged foods have grams listed. If the serving size is 28 grams and you use 21 grams, that can easily be entered as 0.75 servings. It's even better if you have the food set to 1 gram increments so that you can just enter 19 if you get 19 grams.

You get the hang of grams after a bit of practice.

nicoleaprilhardcastle

Thanks everyone! Getting the hang of it! Think it will be better once I get a digital scale