measuring a serving of peanut butter
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ecjim
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I like peanut butter - crunchy - natural - with salt - It says on the jar 2 Tbsp =a serving = 190 cals + some protein. OK a Tbsp is a Tablespoon - is that the smaller spoon ? or the bigger one ? When loading the peanut butter on the spoon , would that be a level spoon full, a slightly heaping spoonful , or all the peanut butter I can possibly load on to the spoon with out it falling on the floor? I tend to go with option #3 because I do like peanut butter. So would that count as my 2 Tbsp?
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Get a scale...measuring spoons or just using ordinary spoons as measures are usually pretty inaccurate...I sure had my eyes opened with protein powder/pb powder and really, everything!
28 grams = 2 tablespoons4 -
The container has a gram-value of the tablespoon. 2 Tbsp is 30 grams. Use a kitchen scale. Weigh your naked bread. Spread your peanut butter on it. Weigh your sandwich. The difference between the naked bread and the sandwich is the peanut butter. Log it.2
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Measuring spoons are specific sizes and are labeled. Tbsp have 3 times more volume than tsp. If you used a measuring spoon, the contents would need to be leveled rather than heaping.
The best way to determine how much you get is to use a food scale. Weighing is much more accurate and there's less to clean.
Put the jar on the scale, tare the scale (zero it out), remove the amount of peanut butter that you want, and then put the jar back on the scale. The negative number will be how many grams you removed.8 -
Get a scale...measuring spoons or just using ordinary spoons as measures are usually pretty inaccurate...I sure had my eyes opened with protein powder/pb powder and really, everything!
28 grams = 2 tablespoons
So much this.
Put the jar on the scale without the lid, tare (zero) the scale, then scoop out -30g.0 -
JeromeBarry1 wrote: »The container has a gram-value of the tablespoon. 2 Tbsp is 30 grams. Use a kitchen scale. Weigh your naked bread. Spread your peanut butter on it. Weigh your sandwich. The difference between the naked bread and the sandwich is the peanut butter. Log it.
But then you have unaccounted for Pb on the knife.... Don't know about you, but that would be going in my mouth too.
It's easier to put the jar on the scale, tare it and take out the amount you want. Whatever is left on the knife/spoon is all yours!14 -
Weigh it in grams - and be prepared for one of the biggest disappointments in your life when you discover what a "serving" of peanut butter actually is.
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Measuring spoons are specific sizes and are labeled. Tbsp have 3 times more volume than tsp. If you used a measuring spoon, the contents would need to be leveled rather than heaping.
The best way to determine how much you get is to use a food scale. Weighing is much more accurate and there's less to clean.
Put the jar on the scale, tare the scale (zero it out), remove the amount of peanut butter that you want, and then put the jar back on the scale. The negative number will be how many grams you removed.
^^ that.
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Get a scale0
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I refuse to get a scale/weigh my food. I use a tbsp measuring spoon and level it off with a knife.17
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BlessedMom70 wrote: »I refuse to get a scale/weigh my food. I use a tbsp measuring spoon and level it off with a knife.
Why do you 'refuse' in getting a scale. Believe me, my eyes were sure opened with many things I thought were 1 tbsp...and clearly turned out to be quite not!9 -
BlessedMom70 wrote: »I refuse to get a scale/weigh my food. I use a tbsp measuring spoon and level it off with a knife.
What’d a scale ever do to you besides increase calorie counting accuracy?15 -
BlessedMom70 wrote: »I refuse to get a scale/weigh my food. I use a tbsp measuring spoon and level it off with a knife.
That is totally your call but, if you ever hit a plateau and can't work out why because you are measuring everything, this would be why.
Edited to add that scales = fewer dishes as you are not having to wash all those measuring cups and spoons.10 -
BlessedMom70 wrote: »I refuse to get a scale/weigh my food. I use a tbsp measuring spoon and level it off with a knife.
Is that because you get more, or because it's more work?9 -
Because it hasn't been posted yet.
https://youtu.be/bnnpUYmr0OM
There are a lot of videos on youtube and elsewhere showing the difference between scale weight and measuring weights.4 -
BlessedMom70 wrote: »I refuse to get a scale/weigh my food. I use a tbsp measuring spoon and level it off with a knife.
That's a good way to accidentally eat way more peanut butter -- or any other calorie dense food -- than you think you're eating.2 -
BlessedMom70 wrote: »I refuse to get a scale/weigh my food. I use a tbsp measuring spoon and level it off with a knife.
Because it's so much fun to clean pb out of measuring spoons?
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BlessedMom70 wrote: »I refuse to get a scale/weigh my food. I use a tbsp measuring spoon and level it off with a knife.
OK.
A scale takes less time, dirties fewer dishes, and is more accurate. Decent ones are cheap. I see no practical down-side (other than the peanut-butter-serving sadness thing).
Some people find that using a scale, along with certain other common weight-loss practices, can risk reawakening past eating disorders. They should probably avoid using a food scale, unless they have proper professional support.
But using a food scale doesn't normally provoke compulsions or dysfunctions in otherwise psychologically even-keel people, any more than cups/spoons do. It's just a tool, not a demon.
But feel free to do you, for sure.5 -
Scoop peanut butter into a container on a food scale. Measure it. Cry.1
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