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SYL_THETUMBLER
2/7/08 5:38 P
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Ya I would assume it means dry pasta.
But I was entering in my food for yesterday and I had pasta too and everything that sparkpeople had was for a cooked weight. So I would just say as a general rule 1oz is between 90 and 100 cal. Or 28.47 grams according to the web site I use to convert from one to the other.
I haven't used the place in the Nutrition Tracker where you can enter everything and it figures it all out for you. I change my recipes all the time or add a little more of one thing or.....So I just do it by hand and it works for me.
But if you know you are going to use the same recipe all the time you could enter it into your favorites and set up serving sizes and calories and such.
That might make it easier.
Well hope you have a great day.
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SYL_THETUMBLER
2/7/08 12:51 P
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thanx kyrie!!! :D that was really helpful! :)
i actualy measured my pasta cooked... 125g didn't look like a lot of food, but a lot of calories.... it doesn't say whether the serving was raw or cooked on my box.......... so should i just assume its for raw????
and yes i did what you said for the sauce :D its just easier that way i guess haha i wish the nutritional counter could just add all the foods we enter into ONE THING so that we can divide it up with ease hehehe but we cant have everything!
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Ok I will try and answer your question but if I don't make complete sense then ask again ok.
I have a box of Ronzoni healthy harvest whole wheat blend pasta in front of me. Most pastas are similar in calorie count though from what I can tell. Under the nutrition facts it says, Serving size is 2oz(56g 1/7 package) Dry. 180 cal per serving. So you count your pasta dry. at 90 cal an ounce.
If you don't have a food scale that measures digitally I would suggest getting one. If you are counting calories carefully. I am so thankful for mine. I use it to measure everything.
See if you measured it cooked it would way so much more and you would get very little pasta indeed.
Some books may have ways of measuring pasta cooked but mine is in the other room.
Now about the sauce, if I understood you correctly you do what I do.
I take all the ingredients that go into my sauce and add them up. Then portion out how many servings it will make or cups or however you want to measure. I usually go by cups and then divide the total by the number of servings or cups and then you know how many you will get.
I add a lot of veggies to my sauces because they fill you up so well and are low in calories. And I always saute them first in a non stick skillet with Pam or something like it. It takes away the raw taste. I do that before I put the veggies in a soup too.
Hope that helps you.
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SYL_THETUMBLER
2/6/08 6:38 P
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Hi!
I have a question! I know it might sound stupid but i'm new at this measuring food thing....
so on the pasta box, it lists all the nutritional value ... but it doesn't say if its cooked or uncooked pasta.. i'm assuming its cooked pasta that the numbers apply to right???
and how do you guys measure the sauce?? i usually make it in bulk and freeze the rest (i live on my own, so i do this a lot) , but i also add turkey meat, and mushrooms to the sauce.
So i made that for lunch today... and i just kinda measured out my spaghetti (which became four servings) and divided my sauce (with turkey and mush 1/2 per sphagetti serving.... so i just added the ingredients by themselves in my nutrition guide and just divided everything by four... does that make sense??
and am i doing it right? because if i'm going to do this.. i want to do it right..........
thanx for the help in advance!!!
ps. i use whole wheat pasta! (didn't realize it had a ton of calories though 
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