If you are confused about portion amounts.. (i.e. 3 grams of

hma2012

Hey there!
I used to be confused when it came to how much food to log. For example, I wasn't sure how much chicken was 3 grams of chicken. Maybe I'm just dumb, but it confused me. Then, I found this:

http://education.wichita.edu/caduceus/examples/servings/table_of_contents.htm

It helped me get a better view of how much I am really eating. So, I figured I would post this to help out anyone else who may be confused about serving sizes. If it doesn't do anything for you, my apologies. lol

olpbabe

Awesome!! This will definitely help me! Thank you!

Lisa076

Very helpful...thanks for sharing

ifiwasurvampire

Thanks! But I use a digital food scale

hma2012

I don't have a scale. lol

EllyK09

Going to take a look at this later! Thanks!

Jenlynphi

lol, I always try to visualize my glass measuring cup. This will be handy but I really need to buy a scale.

Takotorau

This is awesome! Great link, very helpful thank you.

Shellz206

So neat! Thanks for posting!

2blossom

Thanks, I've been wondering what one or two ounces of cheese look like.

SMarie10

I just got a kitchen scale, but don't use it all the time. This info should help when I'm lazy about weighing my food... thanks for sharing.

llkilgore

Remember that the gram is a unit of mass, not volume, so the number of grams in a tablespoon or teaspoon will depend on the density of whatever you're measuring. There will be more grams in a tablespoon of muscle than a tablespoon of fat.

Remember also that the word "ounce" can refer to a unit of weight or a unit of volume, and that a fluid ounce doesn't necessarily weigh an ounce. Again, it depends on density.

Here's a site I've found useful: http://www.metric-conversions.org/

EvanR

Not dumb at all! I couldn't even begin to wrap my head around what a gram of something looked like, so I usually tried finding a second entry for foods that had an easier measurement, haha.

Pebble321

Hmmm, now I'm even more confused - why would they use a mixture of oz and grams? One is an imperial measurement and one is metric. That is just odd.

And since when do 3 teaspoons = 1 tablespoon?
I think Australian measurements are different to US

On the other hand, the visual guide was helpful - I don't often weigh things so it is helpful to have this kind of visual image.

ronjaa

this is excelent!! thanks:D

dltldisney

Thank you! This is very helpful.

elainegsd

Hmmm, now I'm even more confused - why would they use a mixture of oz and grams? One is an imperial measurement and one is metric. That is just odd.

And since when do 3 teaspoons = 1 tablespoon?
I think Australian measurements are different to US

On the other hand, the visual guide was helpful - I don't often weigh things so it is helpful to have this kind of visual image.

Probably measurements are quite different between Australia and US, here 3 teaspoons has always been equal to 1 tablespoon. ;-)

llkilgore

...here 3 teaspoons has always been equal to 1 tablespoon. ;-)

Yep, that's always been true, but the fact that 12 paper clips... urr, grams, are equal to one tablespoon was news to me. I have seen evidence of that sort of thinking behind some of the nutrition panels on products in my kitchen, though. Where serving sizes are given in both weight or mass units and volume units they often don't seem to have a whole lot to do with each other.