Silly question but is cottage cheese measured by weight or volume? My guide says I can have 4oz of cottage cheese but I'm not sure how to measure it.

I measure everything by weight, though I do think the container of cottage cheese claims "1/2 cup" is a serving, too.

i would say by weight but could be wrong. If you measure out by weight and volume is there much difference in the portion size?

you measure by weight, but is pretty equivalent by volume. 2 Tbsp = 2 oz of cottage cheese also = 2 oz by weight

For cottage cheese it could be either. Clear as mud right? Welcome to my hell!!!!

I do everything by weight, but I also stick it in a measuring cup to doublecheck my volume limits of 1cup by volume per meal (or whatever the limit was for that healing period). The MFP says that 2% Daisy Cottage Cheese is 1serving of 1/2cup volume (which weighs 113g=4oz by weight, which also happens to equal 4oz by volume=1/2cup).

I EXHAUSTED everyone and I do mean EVERYONE here on BP as well as my RD with questions like: "Is this by weight or volume?" "Do I weigh this one?" "This has got to be by weight right?"

LOL. The answer to this is some things are 4oz by volume. Others are 4oz by weight. I tend to especially do protein by weight.

Edited October 27, 20187 yr by FluffyChix

27 minutes ago, FluffyChix said:

For cottage cheese it could be either. Clear as mud right? Welcome to my hell!!!!

I do everything by weight, but I also stick it in a measuring cup to doublecheck my volume limits of 1cup by volume per meal (or whatever the limit was for that healing period). The MFP says that 2% Daisy Cottage Cheese is 1serving of 1/2cup volume (which weighs 113g=4oz by weight, which also happens to equal 4oz by volume=1/2cup).

I EXHAUSTED everyone and I do mean EVERYONE here on BP as well as my RD with questions like: "Is this by weight or volume?" "Do I weigh this one?" "This has got to be by weight right?"

LOL. The answer to this is some things are 4oz by volume. Others are 4oz by weight. I tend to especially do Protein by weight.

I was in grammar school during the period of the failed U.S. conversion to the metric system that was supposed to take place from 1975 until 1985. We are more confused now than we've ever been. LOL

1 minute ago, Ed_NW said:

I was in grammar school during the period of the failed U.S. conversion to the metric system that was supposed to take place from 1975 until 1985. We are more confused now than we've ever been. LOL

Good times! I do have to say though, that I ended up using more metric stuff than I ever thought I would. LOL!

And, I thought I could snooze my way through the math class that taught us how to use a ruler an the increments on it...thinking, "I will never use this crap in a meeeeeeeeellllllliiiiioooooonnnnn years." LOL. Jokes on me. I'm a graphic artist and use 1/64 ths daily. Bi*ch. LOL.

1 hour ago, FluffyChix said:

Good times! I do have to say though, that I ended up using more metric stuff than I ever thought I would. LOL!

And, I thought I could snooze my way through the math class that taught us how to use a ruler an the increments on it...thinking, "I will never use this crap in a meeeeeeeeellllllliiiiioooooonnnnn years." LOL. Jokes on me. I'm a graphic artist and use 1/64 ths daily. Bi*ch. LOL.

I was listening to a comedian that was from the 80 something graduating class talk about typing class. He thought he would never in a million years need to learn typing but look at us now! LOL... We never factored in the whole possibility of computer keyboards playing such a huge roll in our lives. To most people in the U.S., the metric system is a foreign language. HAHAHA!

This could be an entire thread Things in School I thought I WOULD NEVER use! And I'll give you a quasi-one. I wanted to take Basic and Business Arithmetic, "oh No" Said my High School guidance YOU are college material, so I took Algebra 1 and 2, Plane and Solid Geometry, and Calculus plus Physics. I am now a semi-retired housewife in Ohio, exactly what good does my slide rule( which I still have-seldom throw things away) do ME now? I'm like the lady who told her bank "I can't be OVERDRAWN, see I still have checks Left!" I might be wise but penny foolish!???