Hi. Just made some Pleasantville Cookie Co low carb Pancakes from their almond meal pancake mix. They're delicious but I need a litle help figuring out the measurement for a serving. The serving size is 4.5 oz, and the recipe for making the pancakes uses 1 cup of mix. There are 10 servings in an 8 oz bag.
I want to be able to put this into FitDay.
Thanks to anyone who replies.
Elaine

This sounds an awful lot like those horrible word problems that used to plague me.

Well, I think there are 8 oz in a cup so it look like 4.5 oz is a little over half a cup (.56 of a cup actually). If you are using the 4.5 oz, then put .56 cup in fitday. Is that what you wanted?

There are 8 *liquid* ounces in a cup. Dry ingredients are less dense than water, so a cup of any kind mix won't weigh 8 ounces. You just kind of have to figure out how much of the 8-oz bag you used, and work out the math from there. It's probably not going to be absolutely exact, but it's good enough for government work .

However, something else is not right here, because I don't see how there can be 10 servings of 4.5 ounces each in an 8-ounce bag. I think that 4.5 oz has to refer to the prepared pancakes, which is very non-helpful. Since you know there are 10 servings in the bag, take the serving info and multiply by 10, then divide by 8 to find out the nutrition per ounce. Look at how much of the bag was contained in a cup to find out how many ounces it was, and then use that to get the total counts.

Example: Let's say the bag lists a 4.5 oz serving as having 4g carbs. There are 10 servings in the bag, so 10 x 4 = 40g in the whole bag. The bag contains 8 oz, so each oz has 5g carbs. If a cup is half the bag, well, that's five servings to a cup. If your recipe makes 10 pancakes, then each of them will have 0.4 oz of mix, and will thus have 2g carbs (5g x 0.4) from the mix.

Can you tell I used to like those word problems?