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Vegetable portion sizes

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Beck S

Beck S

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Possibly a daft question, so apologies now. But...

When I'm weighing out a portion of frozen veg, like peas, and the portion size is 80g, is that 80g frozen or cooked? And is there a difference? I feel like I should know this, but it's just confused me.
 
I would go on the pre cooked weight.
 
Me too.
 
Thanks. I did do that to start with, but it seemed like a really big portion. I think maybe with me seeing most of my portion sizes drop over the last few months, seeing something bigger just looks odd.
 
On the Tesco website and back of their frozen veg packs it gives the nutrition information per 100g and then per 80g serving then at the bottom says 'other nutrition information' and under that says 'when cooked according to instructions' xx
 
Kaylz said:
On the Tesco website and back of their frozen veg packs it gives the nutrition information per 100g and then per 80g serving then at the bottom says 'other nutrition information' and under that says 'when cooked according to instructions' xx
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"Tesco Queen" strikes again lol
 
Kaylz said:
On the Tesco website and back of their frozen veg packs it gives the nutrition information per 100g and then per 80g serving then at the bottom says 'other nutrition information' and under that says 'when cooked according to instructions' xx
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Ah genius. I'd even looked for that on the packet and couldn't see it!

Which leads to the next question. How do I know how much is 80g cooked? Trial and error?
 
As I'm injecting for the stuff I just chuck a heap in the pot to be on the safe side that there's enough to be honest as I eat 100g of the stuff anyway and the only time anything gets wasted is if its green beans as nobody else likes them, sorry I cant be of anymore help :( xx
 
That's ok. Always good to know what other people do.
 
I cant even think of a way that may help to be honest, I do know that waitrose do a few packs of fresh veg that are single 80g portion packs, I think Morrison's may do a couple too, I will have a look for you later this afternoon if you want and see what I can find x
 
Awesome, yeah. That would definitely be handy.
 
At a guess, I would've though frozen veg weighed more than cooked veg, therefore what I would do is weigh the frozen veg, but maybe knock off a few grams. Eg: for 80g peas, weight 70g frozen. Might work.
 
Right I've had a look for you unfortunately Morrison's only do 80g packs of carrot sticks and trimmed beans
Waitrose do 80g packs of tenderstem broccoli, sliced runner beans, vegetable trio, sugar snap peas, fine green beans, carrot batons and mixed sea vegetables
I looked on other supermarket websites too but apart from leafy salad bags there were no actual vegetable packs, sorry xx
 
As peas are 14 percent carbs I would not have 80 gm of them, half that at most.
 
People are different though and eat different amounts of carbs if Beck wants and can manage 80g peas well then so be it, your always quick to jump in and say that that's too much carb, sorry if that sounds harsh but I'm pointing out the truth, also depends on the peas!
 
Actually you are not pointing out the truth - too much carb - where did I wrote that?

You don't sound harsh at all -
 
You've said it on previous threads of mine
 
Just as an example, the vegetable mixture I ate for dinner tonight is one fifth the carbs of peas, and the berry mixture I had for dessert is half that of peas - choosing lower carb foods does make it so much easier to get enough to eat, and the more variety and different colours the better.
 
Kaylz said:
Right I've had a look for you unfortunately Morrison's only do 80g packs of carrot sticks and trimmed beans
Waitrose do 80g packs of tenderstem broccoli, sliced runner beans, vegetable trio, sugar snap peas, fine green beans, carrot batons and mixed sea vegetables
I looked on other supermarket websites too but apart from leafy salad bags there were no actual vegetable packs, sorry xx
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That's great, thanks for looking 🙂

I'm ok with peas, I'd just rather get the levels right so I can have other veg with it, not just use up all my allowance with peas! I used to hate them. Plus I need to eat the veg because I'm just not getting the nutrients I need elsewhere so it's veg or nothing. It works for me right now.

When I was looking at the frozen veg on the tesco groceries website, the description for an 800g bag of frozen garden peas says it contains 10 portions, so I guess that suggests it. I cut down to 55g frozen at the weekend, and it was a much more manageable portion.
 
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