Thickness of slice of home-baked breads?

AwesomeOpossum74

Wife and I like to bake different breads periodically. Looking at the nutrition info, they always say X cal per slice, but don't define the thickness of a slice. There doesn't seem to be a solid definition of a slice online, either. Anyone know?

lemurcat2

The only way to accurately log homemade bread is to create a recipe with all the ingredients and decide how many slices it will make (what you will define as a slice) and use that for the number of portions.

Or, to be even more accurate, you can weigh the total and call that one serving and then each slice would be a portion. For example, weight of slice/weight of whole=0.___ (serving size).

paperpudding

Yes I would use the recipe builder and then go by weight - at least the first time.

So if your loaf weighs 1kg and it makes 10 slices, call each slice 100 g.

If you then make same loaf and cut it into 10 slices each time, then I wouldn't weigh every time but just assume each averages same weight.
Or you could weigh them every time if you want to be exact.

AwesomeOpossum74

Awesome, guys! I'll try your suggestions. Thank you.

NovusDies

I weigh the total and enter the grams as the number of servings in recipe builder. Then I weigh each slice and enter the grams.

puffbrat

NovusDies wrote: »

I weigh the total and enter the grams as the number of servings in recipe builder. Then I weigh each slice and enter the grams.

This is what I do.

RelCanonical

puffbrat wrote: »

NovusDies wrote: »

I weigh the total and enter the grams as the number of servings in recipe builder. Then I weigh each slice and enter the grams.

This is what I do.

Yeah, I actually find this more convenient than dividing it into serving sizes, especially if I'm sharing with others. I don't have to math anything, I just log the scale weight.

bobshuckleberry

use a scale even on labels with defined calories per serving. There will always be a variance.

deannalfisher

bobshuckleberry wrote: »

use a scale even on labels with defined calories per serving. There will always be a variance.

the OP is talking about homemade food...so there are no labels