How to easily determine food portion sizes

Soup is considered a low-calorie dish, but adding cream, butter, cheese and other high-fat ingredients increases the calorie count. Borscht cooked in water contains less than 40 kcal/100 ml, while Ukrainian borscht with meat prepared according to the classic recipe contains more than 60 kcal/100 ml. Soups made from lentils, peas and beans cannot be called low-calorie, but they contain vegetable protein, which provides a person with a feeling of fullness for a long time.

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Table of calorie content of first courses and their nutritional value

Diet soup or borscht is prepared with water, without adding butter, sour cream or meat. One plate of this dish contains a minimum amount of calories (about 100 kcal per serving).

A bowl of chicken soup with potatoes contains about 150 kcal, and rice soup cooked in meat broth with the addition of sour cream contains more than 200 kcal.

The calorie content of first courses and their nutritional value (BJU) are presented in the table.

Soup varietyBJU (content per 100 grams of product)Number of calories (kcal) in 100 grams of soup (100 ml)Calorie content per serving (300 grams)
Pea3,6/0,9/11,15 68,5 205,5
Bean3,95/1,95/10,15 65,5 196,5
Borscht cooked in chicken broth4,55/1,6/4,4 48 144
Lenten borscht0,7/2,4/2,15 37 111
Borscht cooked in meat broth with beef4,15/1,8/2,2 59 177
Borscht with pork2,1/2,4/6,5 70 210
Minestrone (vegetable soup)1,5/1,7/6,1 39 117
Kharcho3/4,55/5,9 67 201
Chicken meatball soup4,4/3/2,7 45,5 136,5
Chicken with noodles4,8/3,4/6,7 55 165
Oat1,4/1,6/5,55 39,5 118,5
Potato with pasta1,6/0,95/8,9 54 162
White cabbage soup0,3/1,55/1,9 26 78
Mushroom with buckwheat0,7/3,15/4,35 49,5 148,5

How to reduce calories?

To reduce the energy value of the first dish, you need to adhere to the following rules:

  1. 1. Do not fry vegetables. You should avoid frying or do it with a minimum amount of vegetable oil. Refined sunflower oil contains more than 900 kcal, and unrefined olive oil contains about 850 kcal. Amaranth contains about 700 kcal.
  2. 2. Use meat without skin. It is necessary to remove it from poultry meat before cooking chicken or turkey broth, and clean pork and beef from films, veins and cut off fat.
  3. 3. Avoid fatty sauces. High-calorie mayonnaise should be replaced with low-fat sour cream. When preparing cream soup, you should not use heavy homemade cream, but 10% pasteurized cream. Milk with minimal fat content should be added to milk soup.
  4. 4. Drain the first broth. It is necessary to cook the soup not in the first, but in the second or third broth. To do this, after boiling, drain the water and get clean water, and when it boils, you can add cereals and vegetables.

If cheese is specified in the recipe for the first course, then low-fat varieties should be used. There is no need to add processed cheese (their calorie content is about 300 kcal/100 g).

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200 grams of soup is how many scoops

  1. Pour into a cut glass
  2. ..depending on what kind of ladle, but at my house I have three different sized ladles.. one is generally half a liter..)....).. pour the ladle into a glass and you will find out.. there are 200-250 grams in a glass...
  3. One, of course.
  4. This, excuse me, depends on the soup itself and the ladle with which it is poured. Two hundred grams of borscht, chicken broth without additives and lentil soup look completely different! We have four ladles at home: a small one for children (120 ml), a medium one for regular soups (250 ml), a large one for broths and “empty” soups (330 ml) and a very large one for our men (550 ml). Milliliters is the amount of water that can be held in a scoop.
    In general, I have nothing more to say. Oh, no. Buy a kitchen scale. They are not very expensive, take up very little space, and have a lot of benefits)
  5. one and a half scoops, in the dining room they pour it like that
  6. mine - 2, I have a hundred gram
  7. in a regular home one one hundred grams in a cook's one 200...there is also a small one in it 50
  8. pour water into a glass and pour into a ladle
  9. 1 not complete
  10. One and a half
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Rassolnik soup is one of the few well preserved in the memory of those who lived through the Soviet period. It was a mandatory element of the menu of snack bars, canteens and restaurants.
The components of St. Petersburg rassolnik necessarily include pickled cucumbers and pearl barley. You can prepare vegetarian Rassolnik. His recipe simply does not include meat. Other versions of this dish are prepared mainly in broths: meat, poultry, and mushroom broths.
Cooking method (4 servings)
100 g of soup, 1.3 liters of broth, salt - to taste, herbs - optional.
1. Pour the contents of the bag into the boiling broth. Cook for 45 minutes covered over low heat, add salt at the end of cooking if necessary.
2. Remove from heat. Serve garnished with greens.
Compound
Pearl barley, dried vegetables and herbs (potatoes, pickles (cucumbers, salt), carrots, onions, ground tomatoes, green onions, parsley), ground black pepper.



Pearl barley, potatoes, cucumbers, carrots, onions, tomatoes, parsley, black pepper

Health

Do you eat right but still can't lose weight? Perhaps it's not what you eat, but amount of food consumed.

Most people don't know what an acceptable serving size should look like. Research has shown that we are poor at judging how much food we should have on our plate, and people often overestimate portion size and underestimate calorie content.

So how do you figure out how much it costs to eat without endlessly counting calories or weighing everything on a scale?

Here's an easy way to determine adequate portion sizes of staple foods and how it looks in relation to the size of your hand.

Meat serving size

Meat: palm of hand


The portion of meat should be the size of the palm of your hand (not including fingers).

The steak in the photo weighs approximately 100 grams and is about the thickness of a deck of cards. A portion of this size of protein can be taken with every meal, and you need to spread your protein intake throughout the day, as we process it better in small portions. However, you should not consume more than 500 grams of red meat per week, and it is better to choose other sources of protein, such as fish and legumes.

Fish portion

White fish: whole hand


White fish such as cod, haddock or pollock are low in fat and calories, so a serving can be as large as your hand (about 150 grams and 100 calories).

White fish contains small amounts of omega-3s and is a good source of selenium, important for the immune system and healthy hair and nails.

Oily fish: palm


Like meat, a portion of fatty fish such as salmon, mackerel or sardines should be about the size of your palm. Fatty fish fillets weigh about 100 grams and contain about 200 calories. One serving per week will provide you with enough omega-3 fatty acids.

Salad portion

Spinach: two handfuls


This is the amount of raw spinach one person needs for one (80 grams) of the 5 servings of vegetables recommended daily. The same serving size will work for other lettuce leaves.

Vegetables should be eaten with every meal, and not just a few leaves, but almost the whole bag.

Serving of fruit

Berries: two hands


One of your five servings of fruit a day is a handful that fits in the palm of your hand.

This amount of berries contains about 90 calories, but other fruits, such as grapes, contain more sugar and about 161 calories.

Serving of vegetables

Vegetables: clenched fists


One in five servings of vegetables (80 grams) per day should be at least the size of your fist. It is also important to strive for a variety of vegetables in your diet and eat vegetables of different colors. Vegetables should take up half of your plate.

A serving of pasta per day

Pasta: clenched fist


This amount of pasta seems quite small, but the pasta will expand in size as it cooks. This serving contains 75 grams and 219 calories. A serving of uncooked rice should also be the size of your fist.

Carbohydrates, which are important for maintaining energy, and fiber should take up a quarter of your plate (proteins the other quarter and vegetables half the plate).

The sauce will add extra calories.

A serving of nuts per day

Nuts: one palm


Nuts and seeds make a good snack, are filling and contain heart-healthy unsaturated fat, although they are high in calories. A good portion is something you can hold in the palm of your hand. Therefore, try to eat nuts and seeds separately, and not several at once.

Portion of potatoes

Potato: fist


A carbohydrate serving should be approximately 200 calories for women and 250 calories for men.

One 180g potato contains about 175 calories, but a baked potato can be twice as much, so you can share it between two people.

If you are not trying to lose weight, you can eat a slightly larger serving.

Food servings per day

Butter: tip of thumb

Any serving of fats, including butter, vegetable oil, and peanut butter, should be no larger than a teaspoon or the size of the tip of your thumb from knuckle to nail tip. In total, there should be no more than 2-3 servings of fat per day.

Chocolate: index finger

A piece of chocolate the size of your index finger (20 grams) contains approximately 100 calories and is an adequate treat.

Cheese: two fingers

A 30 gram portion of cheese should be the length and depth of two fingers. It contains about 125 calories and provides you with a third of the recommended amount of calcium. A serving of grated cheese can be the size of your fist.

Cake: two fingers

The cake slice should be the length and width of two fingers (one end may be a little wider if you cut with a wedge). This serving contains about 185 calories and is acceptable as a treat.

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