Quick Veggie Question

[khesan]

I know this might be a silly question but when measuring out my veg say for example pumpkin do I measure say one cup of pumpkin mashed or raw. Same with cauliflower if I am doing mashed cauli would i measure it raw or cooked. I know for stuff like spinach and cabbage that shrink down a lot in cooking we measure before. Just been something that I was not 100% on and wanted to get a definate answer on.
Maybe it is something other newbies might need to know also.
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Wendy

[atkinsgal08]

Re: Quick Veggie Question

Well, I only use canned pumpkin, so I measure it as it comes out of the can.

With the cauliflower, the only real way to measure how much cauliflower was in the mashed, would be to measure it once it was all cooked.

If you start with a whole cauliflower and know how much that weighs, you could then make your mashed cauliflower ... then you would have to know how many "servings" you got ... and then you could (somehow) calculate the net carbs that way.

And now I have my own eyes spinning in my head ...

[khesan]

Re: Quick Veggie Question

Thanks Atkinsgal...lol I know what u mean trying to work out all this makes my head spin as well
That's what I have been doing measuring after cooking just wanted to double check that was right.
Have never seen canned pumpkin here in Australia. Would make life lot easier lol. We are blessed here with wonderful fresh produce so I am lucky.

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Wendy

[Elizellen]

Re: Quick Veggie Question

I usually start with the whole recipe measuring the ingredients raw and enter them into my fitday account on my pc as a custom recipe as one serving.

Then I work out how much of it I ate and list how much in my food log. So if I ate about 1/3rd of the whole pot I list 0.33, or if I ate a quarter of it I list 0.25 eaten.

With the online fitday and a recipe you frequently use you would need first to add (on an 'empty' day's page) all the ingredients then look at the total nutrition numbers and note them down (I usually take a screenshot of it and paste it into 'paint' and save it for reference).
Then create a custom food calling it something like 'mashed cauliflowers, whole recipe' using the nutrition numbers you have saved so you can do the same when you eat it next time.

If it is a recipe I am not planning to use again I just log each ingredient by estimating how much of them would have been in the portion I ate.