calories in steel cut oats?? - 3 Fat Chicks on a Diet Weight Loss Community

walking2lose · 02-10-2009, 08:56 PM

Hi all,

I always make a large pot of steel cut oats for myself and my husband. This week, I scooped a one cup portion and put it up for work. I know it's 150 cal for 1/4 c dry, but how much for one cup cooked? Thanks!

nelie · 02-10-2009, 08:59 PM

It would depend how much water you used. How much oats did you use? Also I found when I weighed steel coat oats, 1 serving was less than 1/4 cup uncooked. My guess would be that 1 cup is about 2 servings.

walking2lose · 02-10-2009, 09:09 PM

I use 4 cups water to 1 cup oats, but sometimes I even double that (directions on the container). I have never stopped to divide it all out and see how many portions it makes. I have always sort of gone by a guesstimate that 1/4 c dry equals about a cup cooked, but like you said, I'm now suspecting I'm wrong. I wish the package would just say 1/4 cup dry = x and 1 c. cooked = x. I can't figure out pasta either. You can tell math is not my specialty

Shereel · 02-10-2009, 09:12 PM

this might not be helpful now that you've already prepared the oats but you could keep it in mind for next time.....measure BEFORE cooking. if you know the oats are X calories dry, adding water isn't going to add to their caloric value. i usually calculate all the caloric values of ingredients i put into a dish to figure out it's serving value when it's something i can't find online or through fitday.com

nelie · 02-10-2009, 09:16 PM

Oh I looked it up and 1 serving is approximately 1 cup cooked although again it varies based on weight of dry oats. Its a good estimate though.

WaterRat · 02-10-2009, 09:16 PM

The website for Bob's Red Mill, which is the brand I buy, lists a serving size as 1/4 cup/40 g. I'm assuming this is dry. Calories are 170. In the microwave instructions, it says to use 3/4 cup of water to 1/4 cup of oats. You could do this and see how much it makes cooked, and then as long as you use the same ratio (3 parts of water for 1 part of oats) you can assume that a serving of that size is 170 calories.

As for pasta, the usual serving is 2 oz dry. I weigh mine and cook it separately. Weighing accounts for all the weird shapes that prevent accurate measuring.

walking2lose · 02-10-2009, 09:24 PM

Thanks, everyone. Nelie - where did you find the estimate? I looked online and couldn't find a cooked #. Pat - I should do that. I just always make a big pot - I do measure it - but I haven't taken the time to measure out all the cooked and see how many cups 2 cups dry makes. I feel like I'm may not be making sense.

I am a huge measuring cup kind of girl - I have a drawer full - but I don't have a good kitchen scale. With pasta (I actually rarely eat it, but DH eats it a lot) I am the same way. If hubby makes a pot of noodles, I may cave and scoop out half a cup - I never know how many calories a 1/2 cup of plain pasta is. I know I need to get on the scale bandwagon, but the only scale I ever had was not at all accurate, so I ended up never using it. I should go ahead and just get a Salter and end this problem!