Weighing advice

sharronlouise72

Hi all
Which is best way to weigh foods? Raw or cooked? I’ve weighed before cooking and some things come out so much lower that I don’t know which figure to track? Because there are two of us I have to re weigh when it’s cooked for my portion? Confused 😬

Lietchi

If you use a raw food entry, weigh raw. If you use a cooked food entry, weigh cooked.
I prefer to weigh raw, more accurate IMHO.

The calories don't change by cooking, only the weight. May will weigh less because it has lost moisture, but still the same calories for the piece. Rice will gain weight when cooked, absorbing water, but still the same total calories.

For shared meals:
- weigh and log everything raw
- save as a meal
- weigh the cooked dish (weigh the empty pot/pan/... so you can subtract the weight afterwards when you weight the full pot/pan/...)
- weigh your own portion to know how much of the total fish you consumed and log that in your diary

For example, if I make chili con carne and it weighs 4000gr cooked (5500 grams minus pot of 1500gr) with a total of 4200 calories, and I ate 400gr, my portion would be 0.1 of the total dish, equaling 420 calories.