Measuring Pasta

ginavtob · May 2010

For those of you doing WW, dailyplate, or anything else where you measure your food intake.......how do you go about measuring out your pasta? This is the one thing that I have the hardest time with because it's always by ounces or "1/7 of the box" and it's hard to do it without guessing.

Any helpful tips?

raynes · May 2010

I use a kitchen scale to measure everything. If it says 1/7 of the box, take the total weight of the box, divide by 7, and bingo bango, you're good to go.

A kitchen scale is, IMO, one of the best tools for weight loss. That, and a good set of measuring cups/spoons.

jabeckner · May 2010

I second the kitchen scale. I recomend a digital one that you can reset to 0 also. So you can put a dish on the scale, zero it out (so it thinks the dish weighs nothing) and then add the food.

I weight out everything because I have found that often times what they recomend to be a server size, is far more then the weight they suggest. I have heard stories of people measuring out 1 cup of their favorite cereal because that is what the box says is a serving, but the actual weight wound up being nearly twice what the serving size actually is. So IMO food scales for the win.

carlykins2919 · May 2010

1/7 of the box, or a typical pasta serving, is about 1/2 cup of dry pasta

Pirata13 · May 2010

I hate trying to figure this out as well. I keep registry stalking, hoping someone will buy us the Biggest Loser food scale I have on there. I keep hoping one of my fellow BL watching friends will get it for me.

Steph0871 · May 2010

I wondered this too! I always eat too much pasta; always.

Any good food scale recs?

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