Testing My Self Control.

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  • CallMeCupcakeDammit
    CallMeCupcakeDammit Posts: 9,377 Member
    Krisstastic wrote: »
    CallMeCupcakeDammit wrote: »
    Krisstastic wrote: »
    yeah i am weighing it dry.. lol i guess you'd have to see just how much spaghetti i was eating before LOL.. There is a reason why i am over weight ;) lol

    If you're using a scale, you could weigh the whole thing cooked, then divide it by 7, or whatever the total servings are for the box. I weigh my strainer, then weigh it full of the spaghetti after it's strained. Makes it easier to figure out, and you don't end up cooking one serving at a time.

    I cook it one serving at a time because i dont like left over spaghetti.
    I gotta eat it once its made and thats it. =/

    I am a bit of a picky pants lol

    If that's what works for you, then keep doing it. :smile:
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  • MindySaysWhaaat
    MindySaysWhaaat Posts: 401 Member
    edited February 2015
    Krisstastic wrote: »
    CallMeCupcakeDammit wrote: »
    Krisstastic wrote: »
    yeah i am weighing it dry.. lol i guess you'd have to see just how much spaghetti i was eating before LOL.. There is a reason why i am over weight ;) lol

    If you're using a scale, you could weigh the whole thing cooked, then divide it by 7, or whatever the total servings are for the box. I weigh my strainer, then weigh it full of the spaghetti after it's strained. Makes it easier to figure out, and you don't end up cooking one serving at a time.

    I cook it one serving at a time because i dont like left over spaghetti.
    I gotta eat it once its made and thats it. =/

    I am a bit of a picky pants lol

    That's actually exactly how I am. I used to not be able to open a box of anything, because once it was open, I'd have to finish it. I once sat down one morning after work (when I worked midnight shifts) and I ate an entire box of Krave cereal.

    I finally am allowing myself to have cereal in the house, but I still eat about 2-2 and 1/2 servings at a time. I just make sure to log it and fit it in.

    I have to portion out the spaghetti for myself beforehand as well and cook it individually.

    ETA: cereal is one of the few things where I'm not disappointed in the serving sizes
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  • MindySaysWhaaat
    MindySaysWhaaat Posts: 401 Member
    Krisstastic wrote: »
    :) i love cereal too, been loving those new peanut butter cheerios. However they are limited edition and im worried they might take them away before i am ready to say goodbye lol

    I recently went to the store and I bought the banana nut, the frosted, and the apple flavored cheerios. I'll have to check next time I'm at the store and see if I can find them. Once my trail mix is out, I'm going to start bringing them instead.

    Usually when I'm at the end of my day, if I still have about 300 calories left, I'll fill it in with cereal. I only use unsweetened almond milk though because regular milk makes me feel yucky.
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  • MindySaysWhaaat
    MindySaysWhaaat Posts: 401 Member
    Krisstastic wrote: »
    You guys still have banana ones? :( my store took those away.. i thought maybe banana was limited edition too. Or Maybe Canada just sucks lol

    I don't know if it's limited or not here. I hope they don't take them away :( Sorry to hear your store doesn't have them.
  • ana3067
    ana3067 Posts: 5,623 Member
    CallMeCupcakeDammit wrote: »
    Krisstastic wrote: »
    yeah i am weighing it dry.. lol i guess you'd have to see just how much spaghetti i was eating before LOL.. There is a reason why i am over weight ;) lol

    If you're using a scale, you could weigh the whole thing cooked, then divide it by 7, or whatever the total servings are for the box. I weigh my strainer, then weigh it full of the spaghetti after it's strained. Makes it easier to figure out, and you don't end up cooking one serving at a time.
    I personally just do it as a recipe, mostly because pasta won't match the weight of the box all the time.

    so if I did the whole box and it comes out to 400g, then I enter that in a recipe (water as the 2nd ingredient), once it's cooked and drained and cooled off a bit then I just weigh it again and put the new weight as my serving seize, e.g. 900g. Then when I go to eat it, I'll weigh 110g and put that as my serving size. Someone posted about needing help converting their fries from cooked to frozen based on pre and post-cooked weight of the whole batch, which made me realie I should also do this for fries haha.

    Krisstastic wrote: »
    Uhm.. no.. probably like.. 3 of those at once. It would be nothing for me to eat 1/2 a box of pasta and 500-600g of ground beef and a large can of sauce + 3-4 slices of bread in one sitting. Lol.. so when i see this NORMAL serving, i am just not visually ready to accept it yet. only been going less then 3 weeks so meal sizes are still a bit of a shock and awe for me.

    Daaamn. Well yikes. 3 weeks is also pretty early on. It gets easier with respect to adjusting to normal serving sizes!
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  • MarziPanda95
    MarziPanda95 Posts: 1,326 Member
    Pork pies. It's like 250-300 calories for one little pork pie! Urgh :c if I'm craving one I'll have it for lunch, these days.
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  • MindySaysWhaaat
    MindySaysWhaaat Posts: 401 Member
    MarziPanda95 wrote: »
    Pork pies. It's like 250-300 calories for one little pork pie! Urgh :c if I'm craving one I'll have it for lunch, these days.

    I'd probably throw some steamed white rice with that. I've noticed I'm eating a ton of rice lately just because it's a great filler.
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