BBQ and coleslaw

Losewtforlife4him
Losewtforlife4him Posts: 423 Member
in Food and Nutrition
So I have healthy recipes that a friend shared for BBQ and coleslaw. I've put them in with recipe builder but have no idea what to put for the serving size. This stumps me every time! I haven't even made it yet so how would I know? What would a typical serving of 4 lb beef chuck be? And a bag of coleslaw mix? And then how do I figure how much will be in my serving as far as cups or kg? When I weigh food on my scales, it comes to some astronomical number with lb and kg and I have no clue when I've measured large amounts before. Any suggestions?

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  • capaul42
    capaul42 Posts: 1,390 Member
    Usually I try to weigh the end dish and use that weight as servings. That way if my dish was 700g (servings) and I ate a 200g portion, I just my servings in as 200.
  • Losewtforlife4him
    Losewtforlife4him Posts: 423 Member
    capaul42 wrote: »
    Usually I try to weigh the end dish and use that weight as servings. That way if my dish was 700g (servings) and I ate a 200g portion, I just my servings in as 200.

    Makes sense. Thanks!
  • flab2fitmama
    flab2fitmama Posts: 12 Member
    I use the recipe builder almost everyday and I do the same thing. I usually weigh my cooking vessel before and then put the whole thing on a hot pad on my scale, then subtract the weight of the pot so I don't have to dirty an extra dish.
  • perkymommy
    perkymommy Posts: 1,642 Member
    edited May 2016
    joobey wrote: »
    So I have healthy recipes that a friend shared for BBQ and coleslaw. I've put them in with recipe builder but have no idea what to put for the serving size. This stumps me every time! I haven't even made it yet so how would I know? What would a typical serving of 4 lb beef chuck be? And a bag of coleslaw mix? And then how do I figure how much will be in my serving as far as cups or kg? When I weigh food on my scales, it comes to some astronomical number with lb and kg and I have no clue when I've measured large amounts before. Any suggestions?

    The cole slaw mix probably has the serving size in the nutrition info as far as how many it serves.

    4 lbs of ground beef would be like 15-20 servings IMO. I usually can make 4-6 burger patties out of 1 lb of ground beef, depending on how big I make them.
  • koslowkj
    koslowkj Posts: 188 Member
    flab2fitmama wrote: »
    I use the recipe builder almost everyday and I do the same thing. I usually weigh my cooking vessel before and then put the whole thing on a hot pad on my scale, then subtract the weight of the pot so I don't have to dirty an extra dish.

    Yup, I do this. And then put it in the recipe builder based on 1 serving = 100 grams. Then if I eat, say 167g, I know it was 1.67 servings.
  • Losewtforlife4him
    Losewtforlife4him Posts: 423 Member
    koslowkj wrote: »
    flab2fitmama wrote: »
    I use the recipe builder almost everyday and I do the same thing. I usually weigh my cooking vessel before and then put the whole thing on a hot pad on my scale, then subtract the weight of the pot so I don't have to dirty an extra dish.

    Yup, I do this. And then put it in the recipe builder based on 1 serving = 100 grams. Then if I eat, say 167g, I know it was 1.67 servings.

    I'm not sure how to weigh heavy items though because it comes up with a very large number and maybe it's because my scale is a 2.3 kg max...just noticed that How large are your scales?

  • capaul42
    capaul42 Posts: 1,390 Member
    My scale has a 6lb weight limit. I think my heaviest pot is 1495 grams alone.

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