Fauxtatoes Question

[EmDee]

I made these this past weekend (yummy!) but was a little stumped by two things:

1) what is 4 cups of raw cauliflower? Do you chop it up first? It didn't seem to work trying to put the little heads in a measuring cup.....

what I ended up doing was steaming the whole head of cauliflower, then mashing it and using 3 cups cooked & mashed cauliflower in the recipe..... I don't know what that does to the recipe's carb count, tho.

2) I use fitday and have NO idea how to account for a dish like this! I did it by constituent ingredient, but it didn't seem right that way....

Thanks!!

[not2late]

Re: Fauxtatoes Question

I made these this past weekend (yummy!) but was a little stumped by two things:

1) what is 4 cups of raw cauliflower? Do you chop it up first? It didn't seem to work trying to put the little heads in a measuring cup.....

what I ended up doing was steaming the whole head of cauliflower, then mashing it and using 3 cups cooked & mashed cauliflower in the recipe..... I don't know what that does to the recipe's carb count, tho.

2) I use fitday and have NO idea how to account for a dish like this! I did it by constituent ingredient, but it didn't seem right that way....

Thanks!!

I generally use frozen cauliflower. The bag will tell you the number of servings per bag and will give you the nutritional info per serving of the cauliflower.

If you use a fresh head of cauliflower, you might either want to weigh it and look up the nutritional value per weight as listed on the USDA website, or you break the cauliflower into florets and measure it in a standard measuring cup.

When you figure out a dish by component, you just need to add carbs up. For example, the recipe calls for 5 cups of Veggie, 4 tablespoons butter, salt and pepper to taste. Veggie has 5 net carbs per cup. So the total recipe will have about 25 net carbs. Or 5 net carbs per 1 cup serving.

USDA website:
http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/search/

[Eno]

Re: Fauxtatoes Question

Do you have a scale? I weigh most of my veggies now and convert the grams into cups from this spreadsheet... http://mywebpages.comcast.net/phiggs42/carbcount.pdf

(BTW, 1C cauliflower = 100 grams)