How big is a bowl?

sbeltramelli

Thanks to the people who took this seriously and actually tried to help.
I actually figured it out by calculating the calories of each ingredients and then meassured how many of my soup bowls i got
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sbeltramelli

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sbeltramelli

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wachmonster

I know this is way later, but did you come to the conclusion in general that a bowl is 12oz and a cup is 8?
Thinking about this in general terms to avoid calculating calories every time

cwolfman13

sbeltramelli wrote: »

It is homemade soup, I can't look in the can to see how many calories there is on it.
I made a carrot and coriander soup, I checked in the food database to see how many calories it has, roughly.
Well, it says "1 bowl" is about 100 calories, that is why I wondered if my kitchen soup bowls are standard.

You need to use the recipe builder...you're just choosing some random entry that was created by some other user...you have no clue whether or not that soup is remotely close to what you made...did they use more or less oil? Did they add this or that?

Don't use generic entries for homemade foods...use the recipe builder...doing what you're doing is just guessing...

DX2JX2

...and this is why a lot of struggle with calorie tracking.

OP - it's best to calculate (or use recipe tracker) to figure out the calories in all of the ingredients you've put into the soup. When the soup is done you can weigh how much you've made and figure out the calories per ounce.

The serving size can be whatever you want it to be and you can figure out the calories in your serving by multiplying the calories per ounce by the number of ounces of soup you've put into your bowl. Alternatively, you can figure out how much you should eat by defining what you want the total calories to be for the meal and dividing by the calories per ounce of the soup.

MelanieCN77

Use the recipe calculator. It's the only way to know, and it's not a big deal. How do you know whoever made the database version didn't fill it with butter and cream or something? Or maybe you did and they didn't? I keep a notebook sized whiteboard in a kitchen drawer and jot down recipe ingredients on that, and then once things are cooking it goes in to the recipe builder. I'll then either eyeball my portion by percentage of the whole or if I'm using a pot that has markings in it can use those for cups or percentage. And yes I know cups aren't ideal but I'm doing fine and I am at a point where I don't need to be to the calorie.

ZoneFive

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natasor1

All depends on recipie, one can be watery veggy soupe, the other can be ery thick chili made of meat and beans with bunch of fat. So best, I think, enter in the reciepe calculator and then use amount of Grams in your portion

DX2JX2

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