Scrambled Eggs....

kksmom1789
kksmom1789 Posts: 281 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
okay guys I am having a moment I just started using a digital food scale so I am not too familiar with weighing everything and I sometimes feel like I am doing / using it wrong. does anyone have any tips on that. also we are having breakfast for dinner tonight and a serving of eggs is 50g so do I make the scrambled eggs then weight them?

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  • MelanieCN77
    MelanieCN77 Posts: 4,047 Member
    I'd just weigh your egg and make yours separately, it's easy enough.
  • mortuseon_
    mortuseon_ Posts: 257 Member
    It depends if the MFP listing for eggs is raw or cooked. You could put the bowl you use to mix the eggs on the scale, zero the scale, then beat the eggs in there to see how many grams of raw egg are being used. Alternatively, if the listing is for cooked eggs, weigh them afterwards. There will be a difference due to moisture loss during cooking.
  • srk369
    srk369 Posts: 256 Member
    Another options is to create a recipe. I did this last week...weigh the pan and then build the recipe. I used butter in the pan, whisked the eggs with a little milk (all weighed and measured) and then added shredded cheese at the end. I weigh the final amount and subtract the weight of the pan. I then record how many grams I eat. With a family of 5 I usually find building a recipe is quick and easy after you've done it a few times.
  • hesn92
    hesn92 Posts: 5,966 Member
    edited August 2018
    Make sure you're selecting an appropriate entry in the database. For example if you're eating meat, if you just select an entry that says "chicken breast" youd want to weigh it raw. If the chicken is already cooked, you'd have to find an entry in the data base that says "cooked" in the name to account for that. As for eggs, I'm not sure. is 50g the weight with the shell? I've always just entered how many whole eggs I'm eating. so "2 large eggs - 140 cal" but... that's just me... and it goes against the common "weigh everything" advice.
  • Gisel2015
    Gisel2015 Posts: 4,186 Member
    I didn't/ don't weigh eggs either. I buy Costco's large brown organic eggs and I either log them in my diary or in the recipe builder, according with the use. I don't double check their wt, and I believe is about 70 gr. I don't weigh egg whites from the carton either, just pour 1/2 or 1 cup in the measuring cup and call it a day.

    I don't like to make things so complicated.
  • apullum
    apullum Posts: 4,838 Member
    edited August 2018
    You could weigh yours separately. Put the bowl on the food scale, tare the scale, crack your eggs into the bowl, and log that weight of raw eggs. If you use milk, measure it, log it, and pour it into that bowl. If you use butter, then put the (cold) pan on the scale, tare, put in your butter, and record that amount. I would personally use this option with scrambled eggs.

    You can also use the recipe builder. This would require entering the weights of all your ingredients. Then put the serving bowl on the scale, tare the scale, put the the finished meal in the serving bowl, and enter the food weight as the number of "servings." Then weigh out your portion. However many grams (or ounces, whatever you used) it weighs is the number of "servings" you log.
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    kksmom1789 wrote: »
    okay guys I am having a moment I just started using a digital food scale so I am not too familiar with weighing everything and I sometimes feel like I am doing / using it wrong. does anyone have any tips on that. also we are having breakfast for dinner tonight and a serving of eggs is 50g so do I make the scrambled eggs then weight them?

    It's of the raw weight. Put your bowl that you're going to beat them in on a scale and crack the eggs in and weigh them raw.

    If you want to be more precise, you'd want to make your own separately, but I never worried about being that perfect...perfect is the enemy of good enough.
  • kshama2001
    kshama2001 Posts: 28,052 Member
    For scrambled eggs I do use the recipe builder, as I add veggies and pork to it.

    Other times I just use "1 large egg."
  • psychod787
    psychod787 Posts: 4,099 Member
    I have actually did some trail and error to see what the weight of a raw egg would weight. The machines they use to separate the sizes are pretty dang close.
  • Strawblackcat
    Strawblackcat Posts: 944 Member
    Honestly, I never weigh eggs. I just assume 70 cal for a normal egg, and 120 for a double-yolker.

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