blonde moment with weights/measures

christiejf
christiejf Posts: 12
edited September 27 in Food and Nutrition
Okay I was following this diet for 3 days and tonight I was supposed to have 1 cup of turkey. I recently was given a nice scale for weighing food. I weighed out the turkey to 8 ounces which is one cup right???? Compared to my dry measuring 1 cup it looked like wayyyy more than one cup. Just wanted to make sure I was doing that right.

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  • lifeinpink09
    lifeinpink09 Posts: 87 Member
    I don't think weight and volume are interchangeable with solids....
  • Pebble321
    Pebble321 Posts: 6,423 Member
    If your guide says 1 cup, then I would chop up the turkey and put it in the measuring cup. You could then weight this amount so you know the weight for next time if this would help.
  • mommacool
    mommacool Posts: 138 Member
    No, One cup of turkey is just that, the turkey that would fit in a one cup measuring cup. Cups measures fluid ounces, which is volume. This is not the same as the weight in ounces measured on a scale.
  • 6heatherb6
    6heatherb6 Posts: 469 Member
    I don't think weight and volume are interchangeable with solids....
    Right...remember one cup of feathers DOESN'T weigh the same as one cup of lead!!

    Chop chop and put into a cup!
    NB...even for cooking weighs of things like flour and sugar are slightly different to their same volume. See I was listening in science!!
  • LuckyLeprechaun
    LuckyLeprechaun Posts: 6,296 Member
    and for our friends across the Atlantic, one cup is 1/4 of a liter.
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