Measuring.....

[Linzie1303]

Chicken and broccoli....

I have a digital scale and meausre my chicken raw. It's sometimes still watery and what not, maybe even a little icy still...so how accurate is that. Sometime I'll measure a breast and it will measure 5 oz but when i cook it....it will measure around 4. Also with broccoli...how many oz equal a 1/2 or 1 cup?
I know with broccoli i shouldn't worry so much...but humor me! I'm contest dieting and we all know how picky you can get!!!

Thanks for all your help guys!

Linzie

 

[jenscats5]

Are you using fitday?? Cuz you can input broccoli as oz. if you want -- might be easier. It'd be hard to say how much broccoli exactly = 1 ounce cuz it would depend on whether it's chopped, etc.....I usually either measure by the ounce or the # of flowerets -- cuz I buy the bag of flowerets only from Costco.

As for the chicken, I measure mine cooked, in ounces.

 

[pintoca]

I measure everything raw, with a digital scale. Might be a good idea to get one, they sell quite cheaply these days, about 20US$???

 

[jenscats5]

I measure everything raw, with a digital scale. Might be a good idea to get one, they sell quite cheaply these days, about 20US$???

Yep, about that..... I have a digital scale too....

 

[Linzie1303]

Thanks guys!

I guess I should have been more specific thoughCarb cycling messing with my head!!!

I'm wondering about the calorie content. Let's say I measure out 5 oz of raw chicken on my digi scale do i count 5 oz of chicken? After it is cooked it is a different weight. Which weight do i count??

Jens: I found somewhere that said 2.2 oz broccoli equaled 1/2 cup! That seems about right when i entered it in fitday.

Thanks all!!!!

Linzie

 

[jenscats5]

Thanks guys!

I guess I should have been more specific thoughCarb cycling messing with my head!!!

I'm wondering about the calorie content. Let's say I measure out 5 oz of raw chicken on my digi scale do i count 5 oz of chicken? After it is cooked it is a different weight. Which weight do i count??

Jens: I found somewhere that said 2.2 oz broccoli equaled 1/2 cup! That seems about right when i entered it in fitday.

Thanks all!!!!

Linzie

Well, fitday lets you choose raw or cooked for chicken, so I'd pick whatever is easier for you to do. I like to use cooked, myself.

1 oz of boneless, cooked chicken = 46 cals & 9g of protein
1 oz of boneless, raw, without skin chicken = 29 cals & 6g of protein.

HOWEVER, due to water loss during cooking, etc.....1 oz of raw chicken will only prolly equal about 1/4 - 1/2 oz of cooked chicken.

As for the broccoli, I literally weigh it in a plastic container after heating, instead of by cups.

 

[bigdawginCO]

If you have trouble finding the content on your foods on fitday, i've noticed broccoli being one that i did, you can go to calorieking.com and it has nutritional info on a lot of things, then i add them as new items into fitday.