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Originally Posted by DLS  I'm lost with this post. Especially the spinach one. Is there somewhere that says we "have" to eat 8 oz of spinach. I just want a more accurate reading of what I want to eat. Period. I don't want to mound up something that I shouldn't be having. |
In terms of the veggies, the book says 3 cups of veggies for induction.
1 cup = 8 fluid ounces. So if you mistakenly think that a fluid ounce is the same thing as a dry ounce, then you'll be eating 1 1/2 pounds of veggies in order to get those '3 cups' of Induction veggies.
That's why if you want to weigh your vegetables, use soliwit's list because she went through the nutrient databases and figured out how many grams 1 cup of a particular vegetable weighs.
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But it is impossible to get "1cup" the same each time you measure broccoli, cauliflower, lettuce, or spinach or whatever. Only liquids or powder products would be accurate for cups measurements to me.
My three oz of lettuce tonight was 2.4 carbs. That is about equal to the way I usually figure it at outer or inner leaves.
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This is why professional bakers only weigh their ingredients--because they need a consistent product every time they bake. But in the US, most folks don't weigh foods. And those who actually measure their foods, use volume measurements, like cups, tablespoons, teaspoons, etc.
However, there is a problem with using scales to weigh foods. If a food is slightly dehydrated, then that food would weigh less than a food that isn't. For example, you buy a bag of zucchini just picked off the plant on the weekend. You don't get around to eating it until friday. Well, in the time that zucchini was hanging around your frig or on your counter, it lost some water. So the zucchini will weigh less on friday than it did on the weekend it was purchased. Which means you'll actually be eating more of the food because it weighed less and the the carb count will be higher than what is listed on the databases.
Mind boggling huh? If you're really obsessive compulsive you can really drive yourself crazy trying to keep track of things.
It is possible to measure items in cups. In fact, there are 2 volume measuring cups. A "dry measuring cup" to measure dry or semi-solid foods and a "liquid measuring cup" to measure liquid or semi-solid foods. If you look in the "Low Carb Cooking" forum, I have a thread (with pictures!) about this.
If you do use the cup measures, then it might to 'round up' the carb numbers. For example if 1 cup of food X is 2.3 net carbs, count it as 3 net carbs just to be sure.
