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    When measuring foods...

    Posts: 423 Member
    edited January 4 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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    • Posts: 112 Member
      i weigh after the meat is cooked
    • Posts: 75
      After it is cooked, 7oz uncooked meat will usually be around 5oz after cooking.
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      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.
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      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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