Help please!! confused about certain serving sizes!

marylovehellokitty

Hello every one Feel free to add me always looking for new motivational friends. BTW I'm on week 3 of turbo fire.

Question. I see on chips/pretzels/snacks it says 1 ounce is 110 cal then says 23 pieces?? Now I weighed aboout ten pieces and it weighed about a ounce?? So I'm confused as to why it says 23 pieces?? Lol. Thabks for the help!

Kayley

The packages are usually guessed amounts of the item. I always go with the measurement rather than the amount. :flowerforyou:

OpenHeaven

The packages are usually guessed amounts of the item. I always go with the measurement rather than the amount. :flowerforyou:

^^^^^^it's true...if you have a scale, I would weigh it!!! You can still have the 23 pieces - it's just that you will correctly log what you are eating if you weigh it!!

lizard053

Go with the weight! I guess the 23 pieces are if they are broken! Yikes, what a difference...

marylovehellokitty

Thank you ladies for the help I just checked my brown rice & it says serving is 1/2 cup but cooked is 1 cup??? So confusing blahh.

Canbfit4life

always measure things like rice before cooking ,because you stem or boll it of course the weight & consumption will seem to be different

marylovehellokitty

always measure things like rice before cooking ,because you stem or boll it of course the weight & consumption will seem to be different

true but I'm making a small pot of rice lol

mfp_1

It's best to weigh rice uncooked. If you can't do that, weigh it cooked. Cups are the devil's measure.

Do you have digital scales?

marylovehellokitty

It's best to weigh rice uncooked. If you can't do that, weigh it cooked. Cups are the devil's measure.

Do you have digital scales?

yes I have a postal scale

mfp_1

marylovehello wrote:
yes I have a postal scale

I saw you talk about weight but then you spoke about using cups for rice. I always weigh energy dense foods like rice. A small error in cup measurement means a lot of extra weight. A digital scale can be set to grams and that also helps if you measure down to the nearest 5 grams or even 1 gram.

I know you have postal scales. I don't know your financial circumstances but have you considered getting digital scales? I don't think postal scales do tare (add&weigh). They're one of my most used kitchen tools, not just for calorie counting but also for improved cooking.