Food by weight or volume?

2EggsSeparated
2EggsSeparated Posts: 107
edited January 16 in Food and Nutrition
I finally got around to buying a little food scale the other day.

Before I bought the scale, I would either use a measuring cup/spoon or eye ball food.

I'm getting the feeling that measuring by cups and weight are not nearly the same thing. Now i'm all kinds of confused.

For example, the box of Raisin Bran says one serving is 1 cup (59g). Well, when I put 1 cup on the little scale, it come up to less than 30 grams. However based on the weight printed on the box, a serving should be about 2 cups (which would be accurate to the 30g measurement). So which is it, weight or volume? Is it possible that my scale is just really off?

I would love to be able to eat 2 cups of raisin bran in the am, but that's a lot of extra calories if the scale is just wrong.

Thanks!

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  • erickirb
    erickirb Posts: 12,294 Member
    solids by weight, liquids by volume
  • drchimpanzee
    drchimpanzee Posts: 892 Member
    I go by what my food weighs on the moon. That way I can eat more!
  • dcyr009
    dcyr009 Posts: 93
    The box should tell you how many servings per box. Something like this: Approximately ten 1-cup (1.9-ounce) servings per box.

    I would use that as a guide. If you measure the entire box out in cups and it comes out to 10 and the box says it should have 10 servings I would go with that.
  • omma_to_3
    omma_to_3 Posts: 3,265 Member
    Definitely weight for non-liquids. I've had the opposite experience for cereal. My cereal always weighs more than the grams listed on the box. It makes me sad LOL.
  • 2EggsSeparated
    2EggsSeparated Posts: 107
    I go by what my food weighs on the moon. That way I can eat more!

    That's how I used to eat. That's probably why I need to lose weight.
  • kbeckley11
    kbeckley11 Posts: 203 Member
    I go by what my food weighs on the moon. That way I can eat more!

    I like your approach.
  • Sqeekyjojo
    Sqeekyjojo Posts: 704 Member
    I go by what my food weighs on the moon. That way I can eat more!

    I like your approach.

    I hear it's the best place for weigh ins as well.

    Not so good for aerobics, though.
  • zhvah18
    zhvah18 Posts: 158 Member
    Definitely weight for non-liquids. I've had the opposite experience for cereal. My cereal always weighs more than the grams listed on the box. It makes me sad LOL.

    Exactly. When I actually weighed out my oatmeal, I felt like I was getting ripped off.
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