Biggest doubt with pasta

weightlosschoripan
weightlosschoripan Posts: 4 Member
edited November 2024 in Food and Nutrition
Let's say I get home and I have boiled pasta in a container. Said pasta has no sauce or anything. I use the digital scale and I get 200 grams. I log 200 grams of cooked pasta in the app.

Did I do it right?

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  • Orphia
    Orphia Posts: 7,097 Member
    Yep, pretty much. It's better if it's cooked pasta of the same brand you used, but a lot of products only give the uncooked nutritional information.
  • gamerbabe14
    gamerbabe14 Posts: 876 Member
    Yes!
  • weightlosschoripan
    weightlosschoripan Posts: 4 Member
    Thank you so much guys, turns out I was under-eating by a lot!! LOL I re-did the calorie tracking and in days I thought I was eating 2000 calories I was actually eating 1500 megaLOL.
  • Psychgrrl
    Psychgrrl Posts: 3,177 Member
    The pasta I eat (Carba-Nada Egg Noodles) has the calories for a dry serving. So I cooked a dry serving and then weighed it after so I know how many calories is in a cooked serving. I tend to cook in batches.
  • weightlosschoripan
    weightlosschoripan Posts: 4 Member
    Psychgrrl wrote: »
    The pasta I eat (Carba-Nada Egg Noodles) has the calories for a dry serving. So I cooked a dry serving and then weighed it after so I know how many calories is in a cooked serving. I tend to cook in batches.

    do you check the cooked serving in the app?
  • jemhh
    jemhh Posts: 14,261 Member
    I suggest measuring out a portion of dry and boiling it on its own and then either weighing it or putting it in a measuring cup to check its volume. Then use that info to determine future portions' calorie levels. It's not going to be 100% accurate but you don't need 100% accuracy. I eat the same type of pasta every time and boil it for the same amount of time, within a few seconds either way. This method works well for me as I am serving up the pasta in a family setting.

    I would never use a "cooked pasta" entry in MFP.
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