What the!!! How much?!

I just got a food scale for Christmas, you can pick one up for cheap (20 bucks or so, maybe even less). It is well worth it, I have a ton of fun figuring out calories in things and it really helps me see what a real serving of meat is and all that. Totally worth it if you can find one, local thrift stores may even get them in too! Do you best, estimates are better than nothing!

I would like to see how people respond to this. I don't know either. I honestly don't know what an ounce of cheese looks like. Guess I should invest in a scale. I'm sure I will be shocked and saddened when I find out what an ounce of cheese really looks like.

Your fist is about 4 oz of dense food (like steak & ice cream).

3oz would be a ton of salad. I have a scale & I suggest you get one cuz it helps alot with accuracy. For example: There are these potato wedges I love called texas crispers & a serving is 3 oz or appx 8 fries. I used to just do 8 fries until I got a scale. I realized that 3oz of fries was more than 8 so I had been shorting myself. Things like lunchmeat really need to be measured too, because again, a 3oz serving of lunch meat is quit a bit more than you would think.

I actually bought some good measuring spoons too because w/some items (ketchup, coffee creamer, salt) I was over-doing it by eating way more than a single serving when I was just trying to measure by eye-balling it. I literally measure everything I eat now except on my cheat day.

I'm going to look like an obsessive creepo, but you can absolutely get pocket-sized scales. ;D

Hahaha, amazing! I'm sure some people might use them for other things if you catch my drift. I'd probably write food scale on it, lol

I'm going to look like an obsessive creepo, but you can absolutely get pocket-sized scales. ;D

Hahaha, amazing! I'm sure some people might use them for other things if you catch my drift. I'd probably write food scale on it, lol

Oh, I'm sure I'm probably in the tiiiiiiiiny minority that doesn't use that kind as a drug scale.

I HAVE to have a scale - i work in grams and they say reg serving is 75 grams dried pasta.

I kid you not - i must have been having about 200g plus before..... wonder how i got fat....

I cant manage on 75g though and have 100g...babysteps and all that....

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_grams_are_in_a_cup

I work in grams and have no idea what a cup of something is....do you really use a cup to measure things? What if your cup is larger than someone elses? It really is confusing. When you use a scale to measure grams out you soon learn approx how much of something weighs a gram. I bought a cook book online the other day and it must be an American book as everything is measured in cups. Some of the receipes look lovely and once I've got round the whole 'cup' idea I'm sure I will try some of them out

:happy: Sometimes I wonder if "they" didn't make some of this stuff up just to confuse us! But here's a quick run down: a cup is 8 oz, 2 cups is a pint, 2 pints is a quart, 4 quarts is a gallon. When you're talking liquid measurements. Solid measurements get even more confusing

Here are a couple places to look for quick conversions:
http://allrecipes.com//HowTo/cup-to-gram-conversions/Detail.aspx
http://www.gourmetsleuth.com/cooking-conversions/gram-conversions.aspx

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_grams_are_in_a_cup

I work in grams and have no idea what a cup of something is....do you really use a cup to measure things? What if your cup is larger than someone elses? It really is confusing. When you use a scale to measure grams out you soon learn approx how much of something weighs a gram. I bought a cook book online the other day and it must be an American book as everything is measured in cups. Some of the receipes look lovely and once I've got round the whole 'cup' idea I'm sure I will try some of them out

:happy: Sometimes I wonder if "they" didn't make some of this stuff up just to confuse us! But here's a quick run down: a cup is 8 oz, 2 cups is a pint, 2 pints is a quart, 4 quarts is a gallon. When you're talking liquid measurements. Solid measurements get even more confusing

Here are a couple places to look for quick conversions:
http://allrecipes.com//HowTo/cup-to-gram-conversions/Detail.aspx
http://www.gourmetsleuth.com/cooking-conversions/gram-conversions.aspx

I really should have pointed out that those were AMERICAN ounces. Which are different from Brittish ounces!

I bought an inexpensive kitchen scale, and LOVE it! And I've found that by using it regularly, I've gotten better at judging portions both at home and when eating out. I've used it to test my accuracy with the "deck of cards" and "fist" methods, and I'm getting much better!

:happy: Sometimes I wonder if "they" didn't make some of this stuff up just to confuse us! But here's a quick run down: a cup is 8 oz, 2 cups is a pint, 2 pints is a quart, 4 quarts is a gallon. When you're talking liquid measurements. Solid measurements get even more confusing

I really should have pointed out that those were AMERICAN ounces. Which are different from Brittish ounces!

Which is exactly why it's not only a little bit annoying, but deeply infuriating for me to deal with a crappy unit system like this one. I've been using g and ml since I can read numbers (and for water, 1 ml weighs close enough to 1 g, so conversion for most liquids is really easy) and really don't see any good reason to prefer something as complicated and messy as your system. Probably it helps teaching kids arithmetic, but that's the only use I can see.

Yeh I'm in Scotland and the cup thing is a mystery to me. I have Rosemary Conley Portion Pots which I use, but generally you can find me standing in my kitchen with a calculator reading the grams. my b/f thinks i'm nuts!