Calculating calories... I suck at math lol

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Another way to look at it. One-and-a-half cups is three half-cups. So, saying it a different way, half a cup is one third of one-and-a-half cups. Half a cup therefore has one-third the grams of one-and-a-half cups.

140/3 = the number of grams .5 cups = 46.67 calories. Now grams are very tiny. There are 454 of them in a pound, so generally round them to a whole gram. 47 grams of your fruit equivalent to half a cup.

Despite being raised to use cups and tablespoons, pounds and ounces, I find grams to be very useful for measuring food. For example, a tablespoon of heavy cream is 15 grams. I use the scale and measure 15 grams of cream into whatever I want the cream in and don't have to dirty a tablespoon measure.

I also find grams very handy for dealing with odd-sized servings. For example, today I cut 35 grams of cheese into my eggs. (Oops. I was aiming at 28.) When entering it into my diary I just divide 35 by 28 (using a calculator) and find I had 1.25 one-ounce servings of cheese and fix the diary accordingly.

That's why you see odd things in my diary like 1.2 tablespoons of cream. It's really 18 grams of cream (1.2 x 15). I dip raisins by the handful out of a 5-pound box and throw the handful on the scale. It varies anywhere from 25 to 40 ounces depending on the grab. I found a listing for raisins with a 100 gram serving so I just put a decimal point in front of how many grams I grabbed and that's the portion of a 100 gram serving I'm going to eat. A 34-gram handful is 0.34 of a 100g serving.

The more you do it, the easier it gets. And thank goodness for calculators, eh?