Measuring Chicken

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  • narikta
    narikta Posts: 9
    As above, there should be chicken thigh meat by cup measure when you do a search.

    If it helps at all with "eyeballing" and conversion, I have found that in my small-ish hand, a palm sized, flat piece of chicken breast is usually about 4oz or about 1/2 cup. This make it an approximately 2.5" x 2.5" x 0.5" piece of chicken breast. Maybe that same principle could be carried over to determine size?
  • ILiftHeavyAcrylics
    ILiftHeavyAcrylics Posts: 27,732 Member
    1 cup = 8 oz, not 4 or 5. But the best option (before you get a scale) would be to look up the calories in thigh meat (I'm sure there are options for the meat, no bone), figure that out for 10 thighs, add in however much BBQ sauce and onions you used, then divide that by however much you are eating (ie - 1/4 the entire recipe or whatever)

    But that's 8 fluid ounces. Solids are different.
  • ILiftHeavyAcrylics
    ILiftHeavyAcrylics Posts: 27,732 Member

    :noway: chicken thighs, even with no skin, are about a hundred calories each.

    You can lie to your log, but your body won't be fooled. :ohwell:

    I only wish they were 100 calories! You might want to check your numbers.

    Yeah a lot of the database entries are user entered and incorrect.

    Look for the ones with no asterisk.
  • UrbanLotus
    UrbanLotus Posts: 1,163 Member
    1 cup = 8 oz, not 4 or 5. But the best option (before you get a scale) would be to look up the calories in thigh meat (I'm sure there are options for the meat, no bone), figure that out for 10 thighs, add in however much BBQ sauce and onions you used, then divide that by however much you are eating (ie - 1/4 the entire recipe or whatever)

    But that's 8 fluid ounces. Solids are different.

    ? I know, but she doesn't have a scale and I am correcting what she said before.
  • ILiftHeavyAcrylics
    ILiftHeavyAcrylics Posts: 27,732 Member
    1 cup = 8 oz, not 4 or 5. But the best option (before you get a scale) would be to look up the calories in thigh meat (I'm sure there are options for the meat, no bone), figure that out for 10 thighs, add in however much BBQ sauce and onions you used, then divide that by however much you are eating (ie - 1/4 the entire recipe or whatever)

    But that's 8 fluid ounces. Solids are different.

    ? I know, but she doesn't have a scale and I am correcting what she said before.

    Just clarifying for anyone who doesn't know.

    I thought half a cup of ice cream was 4 oz when I started, for example.
  • mlauster
    mlauster Posts: 60 Member
    I've got a scale coming in the mail via Amazon next week. I just need something to figure this out until then.
    lmfao you're going to get deluged with "buy a scale", and all you want is an alternative while you wait.

    I was just thinking the same thing...poor girl.
  • ILiftHeavyAcrylics
    ILiftHeavyAcrylics Posts: 27,732 Member
    OP you should really buy a scale.









    :flowerforyou:
  • FattieBabs
    FattieBabs Posts: 542 Member
    Hi I am having chicken thighs tonight. Found one entry on MFP that said 3 thighs = 146 cals. so going with that!

    :noway: chicken thighs, even with no skin, are about a hundred calories each.

    You can lie to your log, but your body won't be fooled. :ohwell:

    oh bother!
  • sharonfoustmills
    sharonfoustmills Posts: 519 Member
    1 cup = 8 oz, not 4 or 5. But the best option (before you get a scale) would be to look up the calories in thigh meat (I'm sure there are options for the meat, no bone), figure that out for 10 thighs, add in however much BBQ sauce and onions you used, then divide that by however much you are eating (ie - 1/4 the entire recipe or whatever)

    fluid ounces, a cup, are not the same as other ounces like solids, meats, etc. it's not the same
  • timesinfinityplus2
    timesinfinityplus2 Posts: 57 Member
    You people are not helpful.

    You have a "regular" scale to weigh yourself, right? Stand on it and get your weight, then get off and grab that chicken and get back on. Do math, Bob's your uncle, problem solved.
  • UrbanLotus
    UrbanLotus Posts: 1,163 Member
    1 cup = 8 oz, not 4 or 5. But the best option (before you get a scale) would be to look up the calories in thigh meat (I'm sure there are options for the meat, no bone), figure that out for 10 thighs, add in however much BBQ sauce and onions you used, then divide that by however much you are eating (ie - 1/4 the entire recipe or whatever)

    fluid ounces, a cup, are not the same as other ounces like solids, meats, etc. it's not the same

    Sigh. This has already been pointed out and responded to. I wasn't even saying for her to use the cups for anything related to this! Jesus people.
    1 cup = 8 oz, not 4 or 5. But the best option (before you get a scale) would be to look up the calories in thigh meat (I'm sure there are options for the meat, no bone), figure that out for 10 thighs, add in however much BBQ sauce and onions you used, then divide that by however much you are eating (ie - 1/4 the entire recipe or whatever)

    But that's 8 fluid ounces. Solids are different.

    ? I know, but she doesn't have a scale and I am correcting what she said before.
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  • Vivian06703188
    Vivian06703188 Posts: 310 Member
    A half a cup is about 4 ounces of meat (it is slightly under on most meats). Before I got my scale that is how I measured things with measuring cups.
  • Vivian06703188
    Vivian06703188 Posts: 310 Member
    Also if you enter all your ingredients in the my recipes section and then (10 thighs) show the whole thing as being 10 servings. It will give you the calories.

    The 146 calories for 3 thighs is a bad entry and you should not use that. Sometimes people enter things wrong and that is definitely a mistake.

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