My phone!

kindrabbit

So, I am a little disorganised!

I use the app on my phone to log the ingredients when I cook. My god my phone is suffering! When I cook I am so busy weighing and measuring ingredients whilst cooking that my phone ends up covered!

I made a simple ham, cheese and spinach omelette but wow! cooking eggs while grating cheese and scanning barcodes on spinach! my phone smells of cheese! It's like this with every meal I make.

I know I should be more organised! What would you guys do better if you were more organised?

blankiefinder

I'd spend a lot less time looking for car keys!! (Have misplaced back ups, so heaven help me if I lose my last set!)

tattooedmomma93b

My food scale is in front of my microwave, so I keep my phone on top of my microwave and my food on the counter...plus I often rinse/wash my hands while cooking so very little food gets on my phone

EricLFC1892

Maybe write everything down on a piece of paper then log it in after its done? paper is way cheaper then phone replacement.

JenniDaisy

EricLFC1892 wrote: »

Maybe write everything down on a piece of paper then log it in after its done? paper is way cheaper then phone replacement.

I do the same, but have a wipe-able whiteboard stuck up in the kitchen to write everything on.

NobodyPutsAmyInTheCorner

My phone stunk of fresh garlic for three days so I'm really not the best person to ask for advice hahahahahaha

kindrabbit

yeh, paper or a white board would make much more sense. I'm not one for making life easier on myself!

I never know how much of anything I'm going to use until I use it. I weigh a handful of spinach then whack it in the pan. I could pre weigh and have all my ingredients in a row ready to use (but I know I wont!) lol. I have to log whilst cooking (or before) as I have gone over my allowance by logging after eating.

I just realised last night how focussed I am. Last time I tried MFP it seemed crazy to be faffing around, weighing everything but now I cant imagine not weighing and logging.

JenniDaisy

Karen_libert wrote: »

yeh, paper or a white board would make much more sense. I'm not one for making life easier on myself!

I never know how much of anything I'm going to use until I use it. I weigh a handful of spinach then whack it in the pan. I could pre weigh and have all my ingredients in a row ready to use (but I know I wont!) lol. I have to log whilst cooking (or before) as I have gone over my allowance by logging after eating.

I just realised last night how focussed I am. Last time I tried MFP it seemed crazy to be faffing around, weighing everything but now I cant imagine not weighing and logging.

That's exactly how I cook, which is why I find a white board easiest to manage everything.
So it's like; a carrot is 100g, write it on the white board, apart from this bit which is squishy or I dropped on the floor, re weigh, change it on the white board.

phill_143

I find it handy to weigh-and-log on my phone while cooking, but my current phone has gotten so slow that this now doubles the cooking time!

I think I need a better phone, as a totally necessary diet aid

kindrabbit

JenniDaisy wrote: »

Karen_libert wrote: »

yeh, paper or a white board would make much more sense. I'm not one for making life easier on myself!

I never know how much of anything I'm going to use until I use it. I weigh a handful of spinach then whack it in the pan. I could pre weigh and have all my ingredients in a row ready to use (but I know I wont!) lol. I have to log whilst cooking (or before) as I have gone over my allowance by logging after eating.

I just realised last night how focussed I am. Last time I tried MFP it seemed crazy to be faffing around, weighing everything but now I cant imagine not weighing and logging.

That's exactly how I cook, which is why I find a white board easiest to manage everything.
So it's like; a carrot is 100g, write it on the white board, apart from this bit which is squishy or I dropped on the floor, re weigh, change it on the white board.

Do you ever find that when you go to log it, once it's cooked and eaten, you've gone over your allowance? A couple of times I've gone to log something, then realised it's too many calories and just isn't worth it (I wanted pasta last night but once I'd weighed out 2 handfuls for over 100 calories I decided I could manage without it!)

JenniDaisy

Karen_libert wrote: »

JenniDaisy wrote: »

Karen_libert wrote: »

yeh, paper or a white board would make much more sense. I'm not one for making life easier on myself!

I never know how much of anything I'm going to use until I use it. I weigh a handful of spinach then whack it in the pan. I could pre weigh and have all my ingredients in a row ready to use (but I know I wont!) lol. I have to log whilst cooking (or before) as I have gone over my allowance by logging after eating.

I just realised last night how focussed I am. Last time I tried MFP it seemed crazy to be faffing around, weighing everything but now I cant imagine not weighing and logging.

That's exactly how I cook, which is why I find a white board easiest to manage everything.
So it's like; a carrot is 100g, write it on the white board, apart from this bit which is squishy or I dropped on the floor, re weigh, change it on the white board.

Do you ever find that when you go to log it, once it's cooked and eaten, you've gone over your allowance? A couple of times I've gone to log something, then realised it's too many calories and just isn't worth it (I wanted pasta last night but once I'd weighed out 2 handfuls for over 100 calories I decided I could manage without it!)

Not really, but I do plan pretty much everything in advance. For example, work lunch is lentil chilli that I made a big thing of and split into 5 tupperwares for the week, and for dinner I'm having stir-fry so I've already logged 100g pork, 100g of carrot (which I know is usually a small-medium carrot) etc. basically I pre-log maximum amounts so if it turns out 100g is way too much carrot for my stir-fry, that's when the white board comes into play. Then I can sort my evening snack (if I have room for one) to fit in with leftover macros.
Fortunately I have a desk job which gives me plenty of opportunity to jig and re-jig my calories and stuff before I consume them.
You can probably tell I've been doing this for some time.