Cooked: before or after?

[auntiepirate]

Hi Sharon. Thanks for your previous answers. My husband just asked this question and it hadn’t occurred to me. When a food item says, for instance: “1 cup rice (cooked)”, does that mean I take 1 cup of raw rice, then cook it, or do I cook a batch of rice and then eat 1 cup of it? Thanks

[Ossie-Sharon]

Hi, AuntiPirate. No, that means after cooking. Just a note: in these menus, grain products are post-cooking, and meat/fish/poultry, produce, and dairy are raw.

[ConnieSides]

I am so glad that I read this post! I have weighting my food all wrong! I have been weighting after I cook it. How do you measure frozen foods then?

[Ossie-Sharon]

Hi, Connie. Weigh frozen foods after they have thawed, and then get used to what the amount looks like, so that you don’t have to weigh them every time you prepare meals.

[Tscott0710]

Hi Sharon so meat is to be weighed before i cook it? Does that mean veggies are weighted before I cook them too?

[Ossie-Sharon]

Hi, TScott. Yes – but our not-so-secret secret is that if you use lean meat, it doesn’t really matter.

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