What a basic question! BUT, in my points book, I am given the points value for cooked potatos. But, I can't find the points value for an 8 oz, uncooked potato. Since it is easier for me to weigh before I cook, what points value does an 8 oz uncooked potato have?! The same goes for raw meats! I know that 1 oz cooked chicken is 1 point. What is the point count for raw chicken?
Sounds silly, but I find it so much easier to weigh and measure out my ingredients prior to cooking them, rather than weighing them afterwards!
Thanks!

10 oz of raw potato cooks up to roughly 8 ounces. Hope that helps.

If you go to a nutritional site (there is a link here somewhere or use Calorie King) you can find it and base your points on the caloric values.

And most meats lose 1/4 their weight, so 4 oz of beef, pork or chicken, usually cooks up to about 3 oz. (Really fatty meats like bacon and fatty ground beef often loses a lot more) I'm not sure about fish.

Thanks! That is what I pretty much thought, but I couldn't confirm these points with my books! And I unfortuantely have the WORLD'S MOST EFFICIENT metabolism (should be a world record for this!), leaving me with absolutely NO "fudge factor" at all re: points counts (mmmmmm, FUDGE...)
Thanks again!