Roast potato carbs

[caroleann]

When doing roast pots do you have to weigh them before cooking and after .
carole

 

[Pumper_Sue]

When doing roast pots do you have to weigh them before cooking and after .
carole

After, they are about 27 carbs per 100 gms enjoy 🙂

 

[FM001]

No need to weigh before just weigh them after roasting. Tonight I had roasted sweet potato, just cut into small chunks and roast

 

[Robster65]

We weigh them before so they don't go cold while weighing.🙂

Too keen to get eating to weigh afterwards !

Rob

 

[Pumper_Sue]

We weigh them before so they don't go cold while weighing.🙂

Too keen to get eating to weigh afterwards !

Rob

There's one heck of a weight dif if you do that 😱

 

[Mark T]

We have some nice digital scales that are flat and large enough such that you can get a plate on it and still read the display.

The have an offset function so you can add stuff, zero it, and then add more.

 

[Vicsetter]

Having done it a couple of times you should be able to judge the size of your potato portion by eye. Weighing them each time seems a bit obsessive, certainly for a T2, and will detract from the enjoyment of the meal.

 

[RSVP]

There's one heck of a weight dif if you do that 😱

Hi Sue I quite agree there is BUT adding up the carbs as I do with all stuff before we have worked out Robs ratios & it works. It ain't good old DAFs way of doin it but hey ho.

Having also on one occasion got muddled whilst cooking 3 different meals I checked them after cooking and as you rightly say the weights are diff as is the carb content. When I checked out both workings there was literally 2/3 grams in it.



I prefer as Rob has said to do it before so the food doesn't get cold 3 meals, 101 cats it's just easier that way - for us LoL


Sarah

 

[FM001]

It's a bit more accurate weighing afterwards than before, during baking they lose water so weigh much lighter than the precooked weight. The book I use to reference carb values only gives potatoes in cooked weights.

 

[RSVP]

Totally agree Toby honest I do but that's how I worked it out all those months ago when trying to get Robs levels under control.

I am not/would not suggest other peeps do it this way it is purely easier for me to do it the way I do 🙂 And more importantly the hypo hippo rarely makes an appearance these days


Sarah (who's constantly got numbers floating around in her head 🙄 )

 

[Pumper_Sue]

Totally agree Toby honest I do but that's how I worked it out all those months ago when trying to get Robs levels under control.

I am not/would not suggest other peeps do it this way it is purely easier for me to do it the way I do 🙂 And more importantly the hypo hippo rarely makes an appearance these days


Sarah (who's constantly got numbers floating around in her head 🙄 )

It would be interesting to know then how much more insulin Rob take for roast spuds counted @ raw stage compared to cooked as they are so much lighter. I know I need more insulin for roasties.

 

[Robster65]

Although the weight is different, by working out the carbs beforehand, we use a carbs/100g for boiled, rather than the carbs/100g for roasted, if you see what I mean.

If you roast half a potato, it will contain x carbs.

It had those same x carbs before cooking, but will have absorbed fat and lost water, so the weight will change. But the actual carb content will be the same. As long as you work out the carbs using the appropriate figures, it seems to work ok.

If I have roast dinner, I try to either go for a walk or do something remotely active after a couple of hours to limit the late spike. But it doesn't seem to alter the insulin ratio. Not that I've tested every half hour to check it but it seems ok when I do test.🙂

Rob

 

[FM001]

Totally agree Toby honest I do but that's how I worked it out all those months ago when trying to get Robs levels under control.

I am not/would not suggest other peeps do it this way it is purely easier for me to do it the way I do 🙂 And more importantly the hypo hippo rarely makes an appearance these days


Sarah (who's constantly got numbers floating around in her head 🙄 )

Fully understand and what is more important than anything is it works for you. I religiously weigh my food and rarely estimate the carb content, even eating the same breakfast everyday I still weigh the portion size out - lack of self-confidence I think

 

[Pumper_Sue]

Fully understand and what is more important than anything is it works for you. I religiously weigh my food and rarely estimate the carb content, even eating the same breakfast everyday I still weigh the portion size out - lack of self-confidence I think

Funny enough I still weigh all my food even after all these years.
Portion sizes tend to enlarge if I don't 😱

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Ha! Rob and I are guestimation twins where roasties are concerned... We will work out approx carbs at the 'peeling' stage and then I'll just have the expected proportion of the total number finished spuds. Not as precise as your approach Toby & Sue I'm sure, but I don't have an identifiable/repeated problem with roast dinners.

There are lots of other meals though that do get weighed (before or after cooking) even after all these years. We never go on holiday without our trusty digital scales!

 

[FM001]

Funny enough I still weigh all my food even after all these years.
Portion sizes tend to enlarge if I don't 😱

Similar to myself I never go as far to weigh bread or vegetables but things like potatoes pasta and rice I cannot guesstimate to save my life.