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When do I weigh?

GreatSetOfBrains
GreatSetOfBrains Posts: 675 Member
edited October 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
I don't know when to weigh things. . . like pasta, cooked or dry?
The meat for tomorrows lunch cooked or raw?
Veggies raw or steamed?

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  • AdiposeBastille
    AdiposeBastille Posts: 1
    Pasta - dry

    Meat - raw
  • Scatterdragon
    Scatterdragon Posts: 225 Member
    raw for meat. Not sure about pasta.

    At least I was told to weigh meat raw.
  • MissMaryMac33
    MissMaryMac33 Posts: 1,433 Member
    It depends what the box says...

    Does it say 1/2 cup DRY pasta and then list the nutrients...
    Or are the nutrients listed for 1/2 cup COOKED.

    Most things are dry/out of the box.

    Things like chicken don't really matter... they weigh the same before/after.
  • rockylucas
    rockylucas Posts: 343 Member
    Raw for meat, dry for pasta
  • emilynicole02
    emilynicole02 Posts: 355 Member
    i weigh everything cooked because that's how you are going to eat them is cooked.

    if you look at MOST (not all) nutrition labels the cooked is normally higher in calories/fat etc than if eaten dry... well i don't think you will be eating pasta or meat dry/uncooked lol...


    make sense? hmm not sure if that was confusing or not but yeah...
  • NoAdditives
    NoAdditives Posts: 4,251 Member
    Weigh things uncooked.
  • GreatSetOfBrains
    GreatSetOfBrains Posts: 675 Member
    Thanks guys I'll keep this in mind :)
  • AlwaysSarah87
    AlwaysSarah87 Posts: 62
    It depends what the box says...

    Does it say 1/2 cup DRY pasta and then list the nutrients...
    Or are the nutrients listed for 1/2 cup COOKED.

    Most things are dry/out of the box.

    Things like chicken don't really matter... they weigh the same before/after.

    yeah that's what I was going to say. I check the box and weigh things after they are cooked if the box says so. but otherwise I weigh most things raw. :) Good luck!
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