how much is one plate?

I would purchase a food scale and it will help you with the correct serving size of each food.

Depends on the plate. A china plate is going to weigh more than a paper plate.

Every food is different. I found this site online-
http://www.fitsugar.com/What-Serving-Sizes-Look-Like-762806
http://startcooking.com/blog/333/Measurement-and-Conversion-Charts


How do I convert liquid measurements?

One teaspoon (tsp) = 5 milliliters.
One tablespoon (Tbsp) = 3 teaspoons = about 15 milliliters.
One fluid ounce (fl. oz.) = 2 tablespoons = 28 milliliters (often rounded up to 30 ml).
One-half cup = 4 fluid ounces = 120 milliliters.
One cup = 8 fluid ounces = 240 milliliters.
One pint = 2 cups = 16 fluid ounces = 480 milliliters.
One quart (qt) = 4 cups = 2 pints = 32 fluid ounces = 950 milliliters.


One gallon = 4 quarts = 128 fluid ounces = 3.8 liters (L).
How do I convert weight measurements?
One gram (g) = 1000 milligrams (mg).
One ounce (oz) = 28 grams.
One kilogram (kg) = 1000 grams = 2.2 pounds (lb).
One pound = 16 ounces = 454 grams.

This is what a serving size of most foods looks like.

Food One Serving Equals . . .
Breads, pasta, cereal, cooked grain, etc. One slice of bread (size of CD case)
Half a bagel (size of a hockey puck)
One-cup cereal (two hands cupped together)
Half-cup cooked grain or pasta (one cupped palm)

Fruits One piece of fruit (size of a tennis ball)
Half-cup cut-up fruit, raw, cooked, frozen, or canned (size of seven cotton balls)
One-quarter cup dried fruit
Three quarters cup 100 percent fruit juice

Veggies Half cup cut up veggie, raw, cooked, frozen, or canned (looks like the bulb part of a lightbulb)
Half-cup cooked, canned or frozen legumes
One-cup leafy greens
Three quarters cup 100 percent vegetable juice

Meat, chicken, or fish Three ounces (deck of cards or checkbook)
One egg

Dairy One ounce of cheese (two nine-volt batteries)
Half-cup ice cream, cottage cheese, or pudding
One-cup milk or yogurt

Nuts One-third cup (small handful)
One serving of peanutbutter is 2 thumbs

You can know if you measure its volume with measuring cups, or its weight, if you have a food scale. You will find that most successful, veteran MFPers utilize a food scale and measuring cups with every meal they make. It helps us to accurately know what a serving is. My guess is that your plate of spaghetti has two or three servings, maybe even more. A serving of pasta is actually a lot smaller than most people think!

Edit: spelling

Buy a food scale that measures grams and ounces. I use mine everyday.

yeah, that's what I think too. Mostly because I am Italian and we like pasta . How do you measure spaghetti in a cup?

Pasta you would have to do by weight, there should be a serving size in the database for ozs. You cook a 16oz box, split that four equal ways, each person got a 4oz serving. Although with dry pasta that is pre-cooked weight (all your adding is water, so the nutrition doesn't change, but if you weighed after cooking it would be much heavier).

Different food have different ways to measure the servings, it's not all grams and cups. Most meats are going to be measured by ounces. My fish filets for example are preweighed 4oz fillets, so those are easy, but if they weren't I would weigh them and divide by 4oz since 4 oz is a "serving".

Believe it or not I use a digital postal scale (don't have a food scale yet) but it's pretty accurate (2 decimals on grams, 1 decimal on ounces) and it does both grams and ounces, so right now that works for me.

yes problem is that it is easy to measure the pasta, but it is not easy to measure the dressing. should I weigh every single ingredient before to prepare a homemade ragu (bolognese + peas)?

Yes, and use the recipe tool to find out the nutitional info of all combined ingredients.

The recipe tool also allows you to divide the recipe by the number of servings. This is an arbitrary number that you can select or change.
Good luck, and happy new year.

Oops, his account is deactivated.
Math is hard.

Sometimes I wonder why I even bother.....

Im so f***ing mad! Who d f on the world mesure rice in cups or liquid mesurments??????! AND IF PLATE IS NOT MESUTMENT WHY THE F U EVEN HAVE THAT OPTION! it is werry relative one plate...
Everything should be in grams! Or for western countries in pounds...and mililiters for liquids! And PIECES??!! REALY ??? Imagine that u eat 334 pieces of quinoa and 250mililiters of rice with 9 tspn of yoghurt and 3 cups of chicken ??!?!?!?!???? App is great but mesurments are f***ing unreal!

My first thought was 45lbs, yes there are different sizes, but when someone talks about benching 2 plates, they mean 2 - 45 lb plates on each side. Lol

this is a zombie thread, started in 2011....

so angry about such an old thread