[freiamaya]

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!

[Kelly_S]

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.

[kaplods]

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.

[freiamaya]

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!