Measuring grains
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Measuring grains
| Thu, 08-03-2006 - 3:07pm |
I've been working hard lately to get in my three servings of grain, but as I said in my journal, I now think maybe I'm going over. I've been making ww pasta and brown/basmati rice dishes lately but I find the measuring difficult when I make a dish that has lots of different ingredients. For the rice, for example, I made up a batch with 1 cup of rice, that according to the package constitutes four servings. That is 1/4 cup of rice per serving, but when it cooks it expands. So is one serving 1/4 of the total rice I made, or is it 1/4 cup of the cooked rice, which is much less?
Help!


Personally, I measure foods according to the cooked, final product.
I'm glad that helped.
1 ounce of bread and 1 ounce of volume (liquid measure) are different things altogether.
You're right. For hot cereals, we measure dry. A hot cereal serving size is 1/3 to 1/2 cup. I usually make a 1/2 cup serving but rarely finish it.