When measuring foods...

Losing2Live1989
Losing2Live1989 Posts: 423 Member
in Food and Nutrition
Do you weigh it before or after you cook it for the weigh you need to enter in mfp? Example hamburger patty or chicken breast!?!?!?!

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  • topshopperwantabe
    topshopperwantabe Posts: 112 Member
    i weigh after the meat is cooked
  • rickerred12
    rickerred12 Posts: 75
    After it is cooked, 7oz uncooked meat will usually be around 5oz after cooking.
  • WendyTerry420
    WendyTerry420 Posts: 13,274 Member
    Do you weigh it before or after you cook it for the weigh you need to enter in mfp? Example hamburger patty or chicken breast!?!?!?!

    I always just use the weight showing on the package. Since I cook for four, I usually do the total weight and divide by four.
  • JesterMFP
    JesterMFP Posts: 3,596 Member
    It depends, but most of the generic meat entries in the MFP database (the ones added by staff) have options for raw or cooked. If I'm making it myself, I usually weigh it raw, but if someone else made it, or if I'm estimating, I go with the value for cooked.

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