Quinoa HELP!

Lyra89

Just cooked up some quinoa with a vegetable stock cube, tastes gorgeous! BUT...everyone online says that 1 cup dry = 3 cups cooked. I only got 2 cups cooked :-/ Did I do something wrong?

melsinct

Things that absorb water, like rice, quinoa, pasta, etc. should be logged as dry or uncooked. Each item will absorb a different amount of liquid depending how much you cooked it, how dry the item was, etc. It is too subjective if not accounted for as dry weight or measure.

Lyra89

Thank you so much! I logged half of it as 1/2 cup dry...thankfully, because its 100 calories more than myfitnesspal says for 1 cup cooked

HisPathDaily

Cook it how you like it!

Use raw/uncooked weight and measurements as they'll be accurate obviously ...

Good stuff

m0mofw4r

Things that absorb water, like rice, quinoa, pasta, etc. should be logged as dry or uncooked. Each item will absorb a different amount of liquid depending how much you cooked it, how dry the item was, etc. It is too subjective if not accounted for as dry weight or measure.

Good to know - I've been logging this stuff cooked for quite some time now... :ohwell:

mamamc03

Cook it how you like it!

Use raw/uncooked weight and measurements as they'll be accurate obviously ...

Good stuff

^^^FTW