Spaghetti Squash Calories?

xLyric

I need some help figuring out how many calories are in a whole spaghetti squash (cooked, minus the skin, if it matters). I weighed it at 3lbs while at the store, so that's raw and maybe that's where the problem is, but 3lbs of squash is apparently 450+ calories. That's fine, but on here it also says a cup of squash is 30ish calories, depending on the entry. I think mine made maybe 3 cups, but I didn't measure it after cooking. Those numbers don't add up.

So, which is correct? How should I be calculating it? Did I have 418 calories or 93?

rileysowner

Don't use cups for solids. Get a kitchen scale and use a entry that has a weight.

xLyric

That would be ideal, yes, but it's already gone and I don't have a scale. So I'm trying to work with what I do know.

indiacaitlin

Get some scales at home if you've not already, weigh and log your food raw before you cook it. Cups probably aren't accurate for something like that. You'll find weighing a lot more accurate

Ready2Rock206

If it was 3lbs at the store I'd subtract just a bit for the skin and such you didnt eat and log it that way.

rileysowner

The raw weight is not really helpful in terms of cooked weight. Since you don't have a scale, BTW get one, measuring cups are the best you can do. Use a cooked entry since that is what you are eating, and just forget the raw measure since it is pretty useless unless you are eating the whole thing including seed, skin and all the rest.