Maybe a dumb ?

agartin

I'm indulging in spaghetti for lunch, making alternate choices to have less guilt. :laugh: I also started weighing my portions.

I'm using barilla whole grain thin spaghetti... on the back it says serving size is 2oz. So, in order to accurately add my portion size to my food diary.. do I weigh before or after boiling?

:embarassed:

scagneti

I do mine after boiling. I don't know if that's right or not, but that's what I do.

Magenta15

2 oz dry = approx cup cooked, depends on shape of pasta
but yes 2 oz refers to dry

elainegsd

Just chiming in to say it wasn't a dumb question.

Thorneapple

Not a dumb question. The serving size on the box refers to dry. Not sure why the food manufacturers do it that way, nobody eats it dry! They do the same with rice.

garedds

Def weigh before, because depending on how long you cook it depends on how much water it will absorb thus the weight will vary after it is cooked. But yes 2oz dry is about 1 cup cooked.

MzBug

Generally dry ingredients are measured dry. They don't know what you are cooking the dry goods in (water, broth, milk or sauce) and that can affect the caloric values of the food after cooking.

agartin

*hand,face*

DUH.. lol, it says approx 7 servings per box, so that helped me narrow it down.

Ok, so my 6oz serving just dwindled down to 2. I feel so much better. I was looking at the bowl with what I THOUGHT was 2oz (boiled) and I thought... that can't be right! That's a meal for Barbie! :laugh:

agartin

Just chiming in to say it wasn't a dumb question.

Much appreciated. lol

agartin

Thank you, everyone!

2hdesign

I was actually wondering this same thing and I looked at the nutrition information on the sprouts pasta I had and it said 2 oz/1 cup - nice of them to provide that.

menchi

Not a dumb question. The serving size on the box refers to dry. Not sure why the food manufacturers do it that way, nobody eats it dry! They do the same with rice.

I actually find it easier to measure it dry. I have a kitchen scale so getting the mass is easier when dry since I sometimes make my rice too dry or too wet. Plus I'm terrible at figuring out what volume of food is actually a cup when it's all lumpy. But yes, to add to the responses, 2oz = dry.

Another food that took me a while to figure out the serving size is frozen edamame from Trader Joes. It says 1/2 cup (75g), but 1/2 cup with shell is much more than 75g, plus edamame don't lay flat (I'm a chemist, I want volume measurements to have a nice slim meniscus). Finally figured out that if you thaw 1/2 cup with shell, you get to eat about 75g of beans which give the corresponding 120 Cal.