quote inspector13: "
This is just an assumption on my part since you aren’t saying exactly how you are preparing your meals. But the way I do it you are not just rehydrating the food. There is also a loss of water by evaporation during the cooking process.
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Well ya know what they say about "assuming"? In this case however, I think you "assumed" correctly. What a simple idiotic mistake on my end. Now that I think about it,I surely did cook the meals THEN I weighed them. Duhhhhh. I knew all them bong hits as a teen would catch up to me sooner or later.....