Why aren’t the cups, ounces and teaspoons listed with the recipes online or in the Bible studies?
We did not include cups, ounces, and teaspoons for the recipes because we want members to think critically for themselves and assess what foods amount to. This tends to be easy for separate foods like grilled chicken, rice, green beans, etc. For combination foods, just like the exchanges, you usually always have to make an educated guess. Now, for a peach cobbler, for example, one thing you could do is take the ingredients and divide them by the number of servings the recipe provides. That would give you the number of cups of peaches per serving, number of ounces of pastry, etc. Other ingredients like sugar, butter and spices don’t fall into food groups – they are extras. As we explain on page 122 of the Member’s Guide, we made the assumption when calculating calorie ranges and servings from each group, that you will sometimes choose foods higher in fat and sugar. Those “extra” calories are built in, but with the assumption that you are truly only consuming these foods (like desserts a
