When do I weigh?

GreatSetOfBrains

I don't know when to weigh things. . . like pasta, cooked or dry?
The meat for tomorrows lunch cooked or raw?
Veggies raw or steamed?

AdiposeBastille

Pasta - dry

Meat - raw

Scatterdragon

raw for meat. Not sure about pasta.

At least I was told to weigh meat raw.

MissMaryMac33

It depends what the box says...

Does it say 1/2 cup DRY pasta and then list the nutrients...
Or are the nutrients listed for 1/2 cup COOKED.

Most things are dry/out of the box.

Things like chicken don't really matter... they weigh the same before/after.

rockylucas

Raw for meat, dry for pasta

emilynicole02

i weigh everything cooked because that's how you are going to eat them is cooked.

if you look at MOST (not all) nutrition labels the cooked is normally higher in calories/fat etc than if eaten dry... well i don't think you will be eating pasta or meat dry/uncooked lol...


make sense? hmm not sure if that was confusing or not but yeah...

NoAdditives

Weigh things uncooked.

GreatSetOfBrains

Thanks guys I'll keep this in mind

AlwaysSarah87

It depends what the box says...

Does it say 1/2 cup DRY pasta and then list the nutrients...
Or are the nutrients listed for 1/2 cup COOKED.

Most things are dry/out of the box.

Things like chicken don't really matter... they weigh the same before/after.

yeah that's what I was going to say. I check the box and weigh things after they are cooked if the box says so. but otherwise I weigh most things raw. Good luck!