weighing food correctly

hunanoid1987
hunanoid1987 Posts: 4 Member
edited November 2024 in Food and Nutrition
Just a quick question.

With my last meal I weighed it when it was frozen and was 330g but after cooking it was 290g

Which one should I log?

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  • livingleanlivingclean
    livingleanlivingclean Posts: 11,751 Member
    What did you eat?

    I generally log raw/dry weight as cooking time/method will affect end weight and is not consistent.
  • hunanoid1987
    hunanoid1987 Posts: 4 Member
    livingleanlivingclean wrote: »
    What did you eat?

    I generally log raw/dry weight as cooking time/method will affect end weight and is not consistent.

    It was a lean cuisine meal.

  • deannalfisher
    deannalfisher Posts: 5,600 Member
    The box on LC should be as is not cooked or should have both - as long as you select the right one
  • lynn_glenmont
    lynn_glenmont Posts: 10,106 Member
    Honestly, this is the kind of thing that I just use the package label and don't bother weighing, because even if the weight is different, I won't know which ingredients there are more or less of. It hasn't stopped me from losing and maintaining, but then again, packaged meals don't make up a large percentage of what I eat.
  • callsitlikeiseeit
    callsitlikeiseeit Posts: 8,626 Member
    the difference in weight is from water evaporation.

    on stuff like that, use the calories given on the box.

    its much easier.
  • seska422
    seska422 Posts: 3,217 Member
    When I started out, I weighed Lean Cuisine packages pre-cooking (minus a few grams for the packaging) and adjusted my serving entry for that. Some flavors were routinely ~10% high, typically the ones with rice, but most were close or maybe 5% high. I even had an "extra rice" database entry to try to account for the extra weight since it looked like it was coming from the rice.

    Now that I'm in maintenance I'm not trying to be as precise and I just use the weight listed.
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    Weigh raw, log raw

    Weigh cooked, log cooked
  • BecMarty14
    BecMarty14 Posts: 351 Member
    edited January 2018
    Personally, I would just scan the barcode on the box. If something has a barcode, I scan.
  • MichelleSilverleaf
    MichelleSilverleaf Posts: 2,027 Member
    RebeccaMartineau14 wrote: »
    Personally, I would just scan the barcode on the box. If something has a barcode, I scan.

    Everything with a nutrition label I have I weighed over the past four days. Every single serve item was off by anywhere between 10-30g from what it was listed as on the package.
  • bbell1985
    bbell1985 Posts: 4,571 Member
    I can't bring myself to weigh a lean cuisine. And I've been doing this for a long time. They're already so sad. I don't want to log 20 extra grams :(

    Yet I complain about my progress so...fml
  • ljashley1952
    ljashley1952 Posts: 275 Member
    I thaw out my chicken or whatever and dry it off before I weigh it. If I cook it first, I will log it as cooked.
  • amusedmonkey
    amusedmonkey Posts: 10,330 Member
    I always weigh frozen if I'm making something from frozen, I don't thaw before weighing (less messy). I also weigh everything raw when possible because cooking produces varying results. I never weigh cooked unless I'm not the one making the food and can't know the raw/frozen weight, and in that case I use entries that specifically state "cooked/boiled/roasted". As a bonus, the few extra grams of freezer condensation counted as food calories can be considered a buffer for all the coffee, tea, spices, sweeteners...etc that I don't log.
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