Measuring Porridge- HELP please

mightn

I was given some great advice about rice yesterday but I have run into a similar problem with oats/porridge.

My serving suggestion is 40g, I have bar code scanned the box I am using. Is this 40g of oats before I cook them with water or 40g of the final product? It doesn't specify. Makes a big difference to my calorie tally.

Also, do many of you eat the oats raw, not cooked, and just add say milk and fruit?

Thanks

djthom

It is usually before cooked measurement. When I make my steel cut oats 1/4 cup of oats combined with 1 cup of water makes almost a cup of cooked oats.

dgoradia

40g of oats is 1/2 cup uncooked.
That would be 150 calories.

1/2 cup fat free milk is about 45 calories.

So 1/2 cup oats cooked in 1/2 cup milk is around 195 calories.

MzBug

As a general rule of thumb....dry packaged goods are listed as is, not prepared. Most of the time if the product is prepared using anything other than plain water there will be another set of numbers labled as "prepared as directed". In the case of porridge/oatmeal if you prepare it with milk you have to add the calories for the milk separate.