Hamburger Helper Serving Size

apotter05

I try to stay away from HH because of the carbs, but occasionally we end up having it. The nutrition information has "as packaged" and "prepared." Obviously I know I need to use the "prepared" when tracking calories. However, the serving size and amount of servings don't seem to add up so I have trouble tracking. For example, a box of stroganoff says a serving size is one cup and there are 5 servings. If I take a cup and I give my husband a cup, there are definitely not 3 cups left. Has anyone else noticed this? So I'm concerned if I mark down that I ate one cup, I am not accounting for all the calories because there are clearly not 5 cups in a prepared batch.

SymphonynSonata

Does it have the weight? A packed cup vs a loosely packed up, or a dry cup measure vs a wet cup measure are totally different and (likely) extremely unreliable.

uhhhDoodle

When I eat things like Hamburger Helper or Kraft Mac and Cheese, I go by the recommended weight of the serving. I've found that measuring things into cups isn't as accurate as, say, grams within the serving. I use a small, inexpensive kitchen scale I bought off of Amazon for this.

jlapey

Does it also give grams next to serving size? Perhaps you should weigh it.

fedup30

I would try to separate the servings into 5 containers evenly. I have a kitchen scale, and that helps me. I never end up with the EXACT amount "cup-wise" when I make pasta, rice or whatever, so I usually just take the whole amount and divide into servings right away. Also helps keep me from taking seconds :happy:

crazymama2both

weight it...the best 20 bucks i ever spent was on my food scale. i dug it out in my move recently and replaced the battery and VOILA!!! i've never been more excited about that damn thing...

apotter05

It has the weight for "as packaged" but not prepared. I'll just divide it up into 5 servings. Thanks for the replies :bigsmile: