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    Food weighing

    Do y'all weight your food before or after you cook. It?

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    never thought about that lol interesting to know!

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    I weigh my meat after. Mostly because there is no way for me to measure all the different chicken breasts and keep track of the weights. I would weigh it before if it was steak that I could trim down to the weight I wanted.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JohnnyVegas
    I weigh my meat after. Mostly because there is no way for me to measure all the different chicken breasts and keep track of the weights. I would weigh it before if it was steak that I could trim down to the weight I wanted.
    Me too. I cook my chicken for the whole week on the BBQ and would just be to herd to weigh it before its cooked

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    Yep this ^^^^

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    Quote Originally Posted by jim230027 View Post
    Me too. I cook my chicken for the whole week on the BBQ and would just be to herd to weigh it before its cooked
    Me too. Ten pounds at a time.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JohnnyVegas

    Me too. Ten pounds at a time.
    Lol I BBQ 3 big savings packs of boneless skinless breasts just to get through the work week. I split them out into containers with my either sweet potato or brown rice. Keeps the chicken fresh works out to almost 15lbs

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    Quote Originally Posted by jim230027

    Lol I BBQ 3 big savings packs of boneless skinless breasts just to get through the work week. I split them out into containers with my either sweet potato or brown rice. Keeps the chicken fresh works out to almost 15lbs
    I bake it, but the same, bout 10-15 pounds for 10 days. Plus 10-15 pounds of fish and beef

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tron3219

    I bake it, but the same, bout 10-15 pounds for 10 days. Plus 10-15 pounds of fish and beef
    You need some greens to bro... Lol

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    I weigh after cooking. 8-10 oz meat in a ziplock baggy for each serving...I'll cook up 10-15 pounds of turkey burger or low fat beef at a time and lay out 20-30 ziplock bags ready to go for next 2-4 days.

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    Depends on what you account for.
    But definitely do not go by dry/raw weight macros and weigh/measure everything once cooked.

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    I never weigh anything after. Only before.
    NO SOURCES GIVEN

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    It depends what I am cooking... If I am bulk cooking rice, I weigh it first to make sure I have the right amount cooked for that week, then once its cooked, I weigh it and divide it into however many meals I need. As X amount of uncooked will not always weight exactly the same once cooked, due to slight variances in water used.

    My chicken however, I buy this in 10kg fresh boxes, I then break it down into 500g bags and freeze it. So I know I just need 1 bag a day, once its cooked it just roughly divide it into two equal portions. I dont bother with weighing it, as depending upon how its cooked, it'll weigh differently.

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    What about 1-2 cups of veggies. Does that correlate into 8-16 ounces or no? Broccoli at 1-2 cups is diff than say spinach at 1-2 cups... Also perplexed by that

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    Quote Originally Posted by Squats33 View Post
    What about 1-2 cups of veggies. Does that correlate into 8-16 ounces or no? Broccoli at 1-2 cups is diff than say spinach at 1-2 cups... Also perplexed by that
    this is why it is better to go by weight than "volume" (cups)

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    Quote Originally Posted by rollingthunder

    this is why it is better to go by weight than "volume" (cups)
    I hate the American measurement of cups... First time I tried to make a cake I used a recipe like that, I ended up with a horrendous mixture because I used an actual cup/mug.

    Needless to say I learned quickly!

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    Weigh everything raw.... Weigh it raw 'as is'....


    And I don't get what the problem is with the guys who say its hard to do before.... I don't get it.... Weigh it and then punch the numbers into a macro counter like myfitnesspal..... If u make chicken for 5 days just devide it by 5....
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    Quote Originally Posted by Squats33 View Post
    What about 1-2 cups of veggies. Does that correlate into 8-16 ounces or no? Broccoli at 1-2 cups is diff than say spinach at 1-2 cups... Also perplexed by that
    It doesn't matter that much, since those vegetables have very few calories to begin with.
    Ideally you should weigh them, but eyeballing a cup of vegetables is no big deal.

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    Quote Originally Posted by baseline_9 View Post
    Weigh everything raw.... Weigh it raw 'as is'....


    And I don't get what the problem is with the guys who say its hard to do before.... I don't get it.... Weigh it and then punch the numbers into a macro counter like myfitnesspal..... If u make chicken for 5 days just devide it by 5....
    Your averaging is a frickin' awesome idea. Doing that from now on. Thank you.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JohnnyVegas View Post
    Your averaging is a frickin' awesome idea. Doing that from now on. Thank you.
    That's what I always used to do when cooking in bulk....
    I'd plan to eat say a pound of chicken a day for 7 days... Go to the butcher, ask for just over 7lbs of chicken (few ounces over for trimmings) cook it all up then just eat that over the course of 7 days.... Split it 7 ways or just eyeball it, it's no biggie when your eating it all in the end anyway....
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