Serving sizes.... help!

capriqueen
capriqueen Posts: 976 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
So I have oat blenders for breakfast most days. A serving size equals 30 g, or 3/4th cup, which is around 120 calories. I have been using a standard cup to measure my cereal, but I found out today that the 3/4 mark equals 6 oz on the cup! Which means I have been eating 660 calories of cereal everyday!! How true is this? Can someone help me out here?

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  • capriqueen
    capriqueen Posts: 976 Member
    Anyone?
  • motivatedmartha
    motivatedmartha Posts: 1,108 Member
    My best advice is to buy a small digital scale and weigh everything - you can avoid all sorts of errors then :smile
  • bheathfit
    bheathfit Posts: 451 Member
    The 6oz is 6 fluid ounces, not 6 oz of dry goods. You may want to get an inexpensive digital scale just to give yourself peace of mind. Weight per volume changes a lot with different foods.
  • Zomoniac
    Zomoniac Posts: 1,169 Member
    To echo everyone else, weigh everything. Use grams, you get a lot more precision. Never use a volumetric measurement (ie a cup) to weigh a solid. You'll get a different tessellation, and thus a different quantity, every time. The only way to be certain of what you're working with is to go by weight.
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    i agree with the others, get scales and weigh the oats.
  • Steffani911
    Steffani911 Posts: 196 Member
    3/4 cup equals 6 oz of a liquid ingredient. Does not mean that the dry or solid food is 6 ounces by weight because liquid and dry ingredient's weight different. What makes you think it is 6 ounces of the dry ingredient? Did you weight it?
  • GertrudeHorse
    GertrudeHorse Posts: 646 Member
    When I measure my muesli, an almost full cup is approximately 100 grams. 30 grams would then be about one third of a cup, not three quarters. So yeah, definitely overestimating. I agree with the suggestion to invest in a food scale.

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