How do you measure the volume of salad greens?

[Misnagid]

It's really frustrating. One cup of cucumber is pretty obvious, one cup of romaine lettuce is not. Do you mash it down in the cup? Does anyone have a reference by mass and not volume for salad greens?

[*Emma*]

Jane asked me this question yesterday LOL - strange!!

lettuce is literally water, so yah, mash it down and get as much as you can in!!

[Misnagid]

Thanks!

[*Emma*]

welcome!

[Elizellen]

There is a sticky in the 14-day induction forum that lists the weight per cup of the induction veggies .
Soliwit compiled it from the info in the USDA database and posted it for us to use.
Weights of vegetables per cup measure

[funkychickenchica]

I do mine by weight. It is just easier in my opinion. I do it for all vegetables. I printed out the list (mentioned already) with the vegetables and their weights and put it on the fridge.

[*Wendy*]

What a great idea! I think I'll finally pick up one of those cheap scales and find out how far off I've been with my "guestimating" quantities!

[Bikini Bound]

I thought I read somewhere else on the site that it should be loosely packed. So you mean to tell me I haven't been eating enough? I'm thrilled!

[Hayden]

Hello All,

I checked my Atkins book.

On page 123
"and away you go: the induction phase"
It lists the "rules of induction"

Number 3.
(I am typing this out from the book)
You can eat three cups-loosely packed-of salad,

Now, I admit that I can't visualise how much a "cup of something" is because it's not a measurement unit I've grown up with using.

If something was described as -firmly packed- , then I bet that using my upper body strength, I could very firmly pack salad into a cup. The next person even more or less so firmly.

The book does say -loosely packed- on page 123. It also makes sense, because loosely packed is the only way to write about something that describes a sense of proportion and portion.