Weighing frozen food

debbiehwa

Do u weight food when frozen or cooked eg frozen vegetables.

sugaraddict4321

Welcome to the MFP Community.

I weigh all my foods before cooking, so frozen or raw weight. There's some variance of course once cooked, but because I combine a lot of foods it's more practical for me to weigh at the start instead of trying to figure out at the end.

digestibleplastic

I eat a lot of frozen fruit, and I weigh it frozen. I make sure to remove any large chunks of ice though.

PAV8888

digestibleplastic wrote: »

I eat a lot of frozen fruit, and I weigh it frozen. I make sure to remove any large chunks of ice though.

Depends on where the ice originates from!

Roasted meat has more cal per gram than uncooked.

Freezer dried meat also has more cal per gram than uncooked

leaaa92

I usually go off what the package says in the Nutrition Info. For example, I have frozen broccoli that says 20 calories per 1 cup frozen OR 2/3 cup steamed. If it doesn’t specify, I measure after it’s cooked.😄

heybales

Ditto to read the label serving size - if it's to be stored frozen almost all packages give the more accurate frozen serving size weight - which you should be using.
And then they may give the less accurate for convenience volume measure of cups when cooked - don't use.

They know about how much water was in it when frozen.
They have know idea how much will be left after you cook it.

It's why pasta is also pre-cooked serving size weight for accuracy.

roger00022000

I personally think that everything should be measured by precooked volume/weight. Cooking anything changes the structure of nearly everything, and can have an effect on it. That is why, for those that indulge, fast food nutrition charts list things as pre-cooked weight (i.e., a McDonald's Quarter Pounder is 4 oz (1/4 lb) before cooking, but may be less than that after cooking.) Just my thoughts.