Cups as a unit of measure

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Is there a way to convert or do I need to buy a set of measuring cups? It seems such a random way to measure things, e.g. A cup of flour vs a cup of cabbage, completely different, but I have lovely American book of recipes aimed at training for my sport which look really tasty as well as good for me.

There are some practical posts about conversion amidst my anti-cup rant here

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/a2800968-A-cup-of-cheese

You can either Google translate each measurement (because the weight of a cup of flour is very different to the weight of a cup of cabbage), or buy a set of cups.
I cook with scales and cups now. Always convert butter to gramnes tho. Cannot be bothered packing butter into a cup to scoop it out again! Think U.S. butter comes in smaller packets marked up with amounts (like some UK packets come with 50g lines)

Use a measuring jug?

US butter comes packaged as four “sticks” in a box. Each stick is half a cup. It’s also marked in tablespoons.

A US cup is 240ml

I got a set of cups for 99p from Morrisons.

Cups are much easier than weighting, get some!

www.errenskitchen.com/cooking-conversions/cups-to-grams-and-oz/

Converting US Cups to grams isn't simple. Because it's volume it depends

1 cup butter = 225g
1 cup almonds flaked = 85g ; ground = 100g ; whole = 150g

Just buy some cups - so much easier than trying to convert, especially if not just for a one-off recipe.