Weighing portions

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pechez1972
pechez1972 Posts: 16 Member
in Food and Nutrition
So Wow,
I'm on my week 2 of calorie counting. I was a bit confused with how to weigh my pasta. I just learned that I'm supposed to weigh my dry pasta first then cook and weigh again due to the water weight will throw the original weight off. So I have been shorting myself.... :(

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  • CarvedTones
    CarvedTones Posts: 2,340 Member
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    You can find entries for wet and dry. Accuracy can vary, of course; look for verified (green check mark) as those are more likely to be correct, though I have had a number of them not match the nutrition info on packages I scanned. But they usually are pretty close.
  • CyberTone
    CyberTone Posts: 7,337 Member
    edited April 2018
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    Let's say you weigh out 57g dry pasta, which has about 211 Calories.
    You cook that pasta in water, which adds zero Calories.
    The cooked pasta now weighs about 134g. It still has 211 Calories.

    The only time I log cooked pasta weight is when I can not weigh it dry before it is cooked. In that case, I weigh my portion of cooked pasta and choose a MFP entry for cooked pasta.
  • pechez1972
    pechez1972 Posts: 16 Member
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    Thanks ill have to pay attention to the entriea because i havent noticed the option for cooked pasta.
  • pechez1972
    pechez1972 Posts: 16 Member
    edited April 2018
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    Question...I know its a dumb quearion but really i dont understand. When it states " .8 c or 2oz dry" does the .8 c mean cooked??
  • pechez1972
    pechez1972 Posts: 16 Member
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    CyberTone wrote: »
    Let's say you weigh out 57g dry pasta, which has about 211 Calories.
    You cook that pasta in water, which adds zero Calories.
    The cooked pasta now weighs about 134g. It still has 211 Calories.

    The only time I log cooked pasta weight is when I can not weigh it dry before it is cooked. In that case, I weigh my portion of cooked pasta and choose a MFP entry for cooked pasta.

    Right right...i wasn't weighing anything dry before just cooking a bunch n then weighing after
  • pechez1972
    pechez1972 Posts: 16 Member
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    CyberTone wrote: »
    Let's say you weigh out 57g dry pasta, which has about 211 Calories.
    You cook that pasta in water, which adds zero Calories.
    The cooked pasta now weighs about 134g. It still has 211 Calories.

    The only time I log cooked pasta weight is when I can not weigh it dry before it is cooked. In that case, I weigh my portion of cooked pasta and choose a MFP entry for cooked pasta.

  • livingleanlivingclean
    livingleanlivingclean Posts: 11,751 Member
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    pechez1972 wrote: »
    Question...I know its a dumb quearion but really i dont understand. When it states " .8 c or 2oz dry" does the .8 c mean cooked??

    No - it's a measurement for dry pasta. If you measured out 0.8cups of pasta then weighed it, you'd likely find it was more than 2oz which is why weighing solids is more accurate than measuring

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