How to weigh frozen food/raw uncooked vs cooked; pasta vs cooked

I'm sure there is a topic somewhere, but I tried to find something similar to what I would like to know....

1. Do you measure foods frozen and raw? Eg, today I made bolognaise from frozen and fresh(raw), and weighed everything frozen and raw before I cooked it, onion, garlic, green pepper, corn, turkey mince, ect.... Then weighed my portion.

I then went to new reciepe tool and 'made my recipe ' then got to the weight of the food I weighed and it gave me my nutrition value. Is this what you would do to get your calorie count?

The next thing I would like to know is pasta on the packet says 355 kcal for 100g so is this uncooked or cooked?

the package is saying uncooked, so weigh out 100g and you're good to go

The package would be uncooked. So if you weigh out 50g of spaghetti, for example, you'd put it in the uncooked pasta. That'd be 178ish calories for 50g dry weight by your pasta's cal info.

Similarly, you enter your food info as you weighed it in the state it was in. So, yes. Your recipe would be accurate per everything you entered - uncooked and frozen - into the analyzer.

Thanks for helping me understand it now!! :)

Original Post by girlfighting27:

the package is saying uncooked, so weigh out 100g and you're good to go

 What if you don't have a scale? How would you do it by cups? It would help me a lot...