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1. Shelley Baldwin on April 16, 2008 11:50 am

   I’m delurking now – been keeping up w/your blogs for a couple months now. I am a scale freak too, but usually with stuff that has already been cooked or doesn’t need to be cooked (e.g., cooked meat in ounces, cheese in ounces, etc.)

   For pasta, I just eyeball it before cooking, & then measure out my portion. 1/2 cup = 2 points, 1 cup = 4 pounts, etc. My hubby eats the rest!

2. Sabrina on April 16, 2008 1:12 pm

   I’m like Shelley I eyeball it and then take what I want and the hubby eats what he wants and packs the rest for lunch!

3. Jami on April 16, 2008 2:31 pm

   I’m a scale freak too. I can’t answer cup wise but I’ve noticed that when pasta is cooked it is almost exactly twice the weight.

4. dj on April 21, 2008 12:05 am

   Barillaus has a table for all pasta’s.

   I saved the plastic top off a condiment bottle that matched a serving size. I fist the pasta, place the end in the cap to confirm the measure. Sometimes, I’ll do the entire box and put small rubberbands around a serving size, so in the future I just have to grab. It helps when you are really tired and hungry. :-)

5. roni on April 21, 2008 6:43 am

   Barillaus – What a FABULOUS idea! I love the rubber bands!

6. swizzlepop on April 24, 2008 3:10 pm

   I have a handy dandy pasta measurer thingie that I got at Linens N Things for the stringy pastas and for other kinds (spiral, elbow, etc.) I measure according to the serving size. If it says 3/4C then I measure 3/4 dry and then measure 3/4 cooked to serve.

7. Angela on May 2, 2008 8:39 am

   Hello! I’m coming out of lurkdom to say that I love your site and I too am a scale freak. It actually has a permanent spot on my counter. I’m so bad that I’ll make a recipe and actually weigh the entire completed recipe and divide the grams by the number of servings and then weigh my serving. Not sure that makes sense. Like if I make spaghetti, I’ll weigh the whole recipe so if it comes out to 1000 grams then I divide that by 4 servings and know that 1 serving is 250 grams. So then I put my plate on the scale and measure out 250 grams of spaghetti. I think I need to go to food scales anonymous! :-)

8. Erin on June 21, 2008 10:08 pm

   i never realized i was a “topic” on your site until i started browsing – wow! thanks, haha!

9. roni on June 21, 2008 10:11 pm

   LOL Did I forget to email you?!? SO SORRY! I try to email when I answer a question.

10. kingsize on January 6, 2010 3:43 pm

    my scales have broken and i really need to know how many cupfulls of dried pasta is equal to 40g of dried pasta?

11. roni on January 6, 2010 8:22 pm

    Unfortunately it depends on the type of pasta. Does this help? http://www.barillaus.com/Home/Pages/Measuring_Pasta.aspx

12. Heather on March 31, 2010 6:02 pm

    This may be a dumb questions, but how do you know how many servings are in a finished meal so you know how to divide properly?

13. roni on April 2, 2010 8:45 am

    Hi Heather! This isn’t stupid at all! To be honest… I decide once the meal is done and what I feel is a good size portion for the cals. So I guess my short answer is I don’t know.. I just decide! :)

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I'm Roni, a 30ish working mom with a passion for coming up with lite recipe ideas. In '05, I started a weight loss blog to help me lose 70lbs! Now I'm focusing on archiving and sharing my food ideas. Read more on the about page.