Measuring grains

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Measuring grains
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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!

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Thu, 08-03-2006 - 8:28pm

Personally, I measure foods according to the cooked, final product.


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Fri, 08-04-2006 - 7:54am
The correct way to measure is after cooking. 1/2 cup cooked is a grain serving.
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Fri, 08-04-2006 - 9:34am
Thanks so much. I thought a serving of rice was 1/4 cup so maybe I wasn't doing as badly as I thought. Anyhow, I think in the future I will measure right after I cook the rice or pasta and before I combine it with the other stuff in the dish. That should help me estimate.
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Fri, 08-04-2006 - 9:39am

I'm glad that helped.

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Fri, 08-04-2006 - 6:13pm
IF there are four ounces in a cup, then how is one ounce a serving when the label states that a serving of (cereal) is 1 cup? I am not a mathmetician but that doesn't make sense. I would think that I could have the 4 ounces (one cup) of the cereal and consider that a serving.
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Fri, 08-04-2006 - 6:48pm
We measure cereal and bread differently than pasta and rice.
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Fri, 08-04-2006 - 10:19pm

1 ounce of bread and 1 ounce of volume (liquid measure) are different things altogether.

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Mon, 08-07-2006 - 3:35pm
Do those rules apply to old fashioned oatmeal as well? On the package 1/2 cup dry is a serving, but when cooked up that is a LOT of oatmeal. I'm just wondering if a 1/2 cup cooked is a serving, how much dry would I use to get that amount?
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Mon, 08-07-2006 - 4:49pm

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.


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Mon, 08-07-2006 - 4:59pm
Thank you Karen!