Weight-Loss Measuring Meat Servings

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Hi - So I was wondering if anyone has any idea what 3oz of cooked ground beef is equivalent to in cups. The reason I ask is beacuse I don't have anything to measure in 'oz' - just cups.

Stupid question I know - but thanks for any help!
 
8 ounces is one cup....

so 3 ounces is a little less than 1/2 a cup...

it's not going to be 100 precise - you might want to invest in a digital food scale for pretty much everything...
 
1) Get out a ruler
2) Measure
3) Make sure to round up
4) Throw in about a 20% bonus 'cause "its not as good as it can be at that moment"
5) Round that to an even number
6) Throw in a "and a half" because there is always an inconsistancy in measurement
7) Roung that up to an even number
8) Share that number with your friends
 
Fitday puts 1C of cooked ground beef ("regular," whatever that means) at 352.5 calories. And 1 oz of the same at 80.25 calories. So 4.37 ounces to a cup. 3 ounces cooked would be 0.7 cups. So somewhere between 2/3 and 3/4 of a cup.

Personally, I'd have guessed cooked beef would be much denser than water (Mal's 8oz per cup assumes the same density as water), so I wouldn't be packing the measuring scoop as full as I could get it. Another reason why measuring by volume is fraught with error.
 
Spend $25-30 and buy a digital scale, it's the way to go. I tried "eyeballing" and using measuring cups to gauge what I was eating and found out I was pretty far off after buying a scale. I was actually "shorting" my portions in some cases, especially when trying to make visual comparisons between proteins like fish and beef.
 
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