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rooney wrote:I'm single and live alone, so I'm only cooking for myself and tend to only make enough for one meal.
rooney wrote:For a long time, I've had a habit of measuring/weighing my food in an attempt to control and keep track of my calorie intake. I'd really like to move away from this habit, especially now that I'm going to be eating this way.
I'm single and live alone, so I'm only cooking for myself and tend to only make enough for one meal. Previously, I'd just measure out however much food I thought I'd need for one meal, and then not make more than that.
For example, when making oatmeal, I'd measure out a certain amount of grams and cook that. Now, let's say I want to make some oatmeal for breakfast, but am not going to measure -- then how do I know how much oatmeal to make? If I'm batch-cooking something like rice, I guess I could just put as much as I want in a bowl and then if I need more or less, just adjust that way, but with something like oatmeal where you'd usually only make a single portion at a time, what do you do?
landog wrote:rooney wrote:I'm single and live alone, so I'm only cooking for myself and tend to only make enough for one meal.
Make a triple batch.
Eat one serving.
Put one serving in the fridge for later.
Put one serving in the freezer for much later.
verde wrote:...For someone experienced enough you may have had time enough to figure out how much you eat in one sitting, but not someone new to not measuring like the OP.
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f00die wrote:verde wrote:...For someone experienced enough you may have had time enough to figure out how much you eat in one sitting, but not someone new to not measuring like the OP.
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how much is eaten in one sitting differs over time
and is not worth the time figuring out
verde wrote:In all fairness, if you're not measuring how do you know you're making a triple batch? Technically, You only know if you're measuring.
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