measuring foods and counting calories help!!!

someonelikemyself

1)I made betty crocker chocolate chip mix muffins today, it says on the back that to make medium muffins i should use 10 cups and for the large ones i should use 8 cups. Well i was using my jumbo cupcake pan and it made 10 anyway! so i guess its counted as medium muffins. i had 2 and it says on mfp that i had 260 cals also i didnt use two yolks as it says just 1.
2 egg whites, and 4 tbsp of light corn oil.
can someone please tell me if this could be true? 260 cals sounds so little for 2 muffins that are kinda big ....although i admit it didnt taste heavy

2)another question i had 10 tbsp of tilda brown basmati rice it was steamed but i used a bit of oil like a tsp for one whole cup of uncooked rice.
Are 10 REGULAR (not imperial ) tbsp equivalent to 110 grams since cooked basmati rice is 175 grams/cup? and a cup they say contains 16 tbsp im not sure if imperial ones though.




please help and try to give me accurate answers im losing my mind taking more than an hour to calculate my cals each day!! my kitchen scale isnt working now

Nomomush

1. subtract one egg calories (I think it's 70 for a large egg) from the total calories of 10 muffins then divide the new number by 10 = your new calorie count.

sarah_ep

I would use the Recipe Calculator and input your subs.

melsinct

1. If you followed directions and ate the serving size on the package, then go by that and don't sweat it.

2. If you used one teaspoon of oil in 1 cup of uncooked rice...1 cup dry rice = roughly 3 cups cooked with one teaspoon of oil.
1 cup = 16 tablespoons of cooked rice, thus you made 48 tablespoons with 1 teaspoon of oil. You ate 10 tablespoons, which to not lose our minds let's call it 1/5 of a serving. So you ate 1/5 of a teaspoon of oil, or .2 of 1 teaspoon. Negligible amount anyway!

Next time use the "recipe" function under the food tab on MFP and save yourself the headache!

someonelikemyself

well most of the time the recipe tool doesn't work for me but in the cupcake case it does! thanks for reminding me and about the egg calories i will do that :)it feels like i'm studying math

someonelikemyself

thankyou!