Do You Weigh Pre-Packaged Food, Like a Slice of Bread?

MysticRealm

I have always weighed things like raw chicken, or honey, or peanut butter, etc. but I guess I haven't really thought about weighing things like a pre-sliced slice of bread, or bagel, or such.
Is this something that people weigh? I want to be as accurate as possible, and I have just recently thought that maybe I should be weighing those things as there likely is SOME discrepancy between what the package says it weighs and what it actually weighs.

KateTii

I don't weigh things that are individually wrapped where I intend to eat the entire contents. Eg. chocolates (from share packs), yogurts, oat sachets. For me, bread is bad to generalise as you can have thick slices, sandwich slices, toast slices (at least where I live anyway).

In my opinion, if you are losing weight at a good rate and not weighing bread, it's probably not the end of the world. If you are wondering why you aren't loosing weight (or just simply want to weigh it), it's probably a good thing to do.

bpetrosky

Yes.

You can take a few slices of bread from a loaf and weigh each one and find a significant variance. Sliced cheese or meats can vary a fair bit, too.

Some packaged foods are more variable than others, and sometimes it's just some testing to figure out what tends to vary a little or a lot.

Also, individually wrapped snacks. My Clif bar today was about 5 grams heavier than the serving size, for about a 30 calorie difference than labeled.

Sued0nim

No I don't, I accept the possible 20% out guideline

But if I stopped hitting my targets over time I would

Sued0nim

I do however get a minor thrill when it comes to the end of the sliced loaf and I get to eat the crust for the same calorie logging

Note to self: get a life

vixtris

Most pre-packaged foods I do not weigh. I mostly just weigh my meats and fruits, and measure out my veggies/sides/ingredients. I'm sure there are plenty of people here that do weigh everything, and may need to depending on each individuals caloric needs. If I do come across a plateau though, I would start being more strict with the weighing.

mathandcats

Yes, I've found huge variation in packaged foods, so I always weigh it. Once it was a difference of being 150 calories more than the stated serving would have been.

cw106

rabbitjb wrote: »

I do however get a minor thrill when it comes to the end of the sliced loaf and I get to eat the crust for the same calorie logging

Note to self: get a life

you are not alone.

DawnieB1977

rabbitjb wrote: »

I do however get a minor thrill when it comes to the end of the sliced loaf and I get to eat the crust for the same calorie logging

Note to self: get a life

Hahaha me too.

onthemesa

Only once, and it weighed far more than the listed info. Now every time I eat a sandwich I enter a world of denial.
If my weight loss stalled I would become more strict.

DawnieB1977

If you eat say 1 slice of bread every day, it'll all even out anyway.

YellowApple666

No and I'm still losing. Not 100% accurate but I'm fine with it. As someone said, it will all even out anyway. I tend to get a bit obsessive about measuring and logging, so in my experience it's just additional stress.

Sued0nim

DawnieB1977 wrote: »

If you eat say 1 slice of bread every day, it'll all even out anyway.

I eat 3 or 4 ..I'm all about the evening out

*double entendre totally meant*

Orphia

rabbitjb wrote: »

No I don't, I accept the possible 20% out guideline

But if I stopped hitting my targets over time I would

Yeah, that.

Chezzie84

I weigh everything.

kyrannosaurus

I didn't, until yesterday.

I had a 60g chocolate bar and decided I was going to eat half of it. So I cut it in half. One half was a bit smaller than the other so I decided to weigh it so I could log it accurately... and the smaller half of my 60g bar weighed 37g. The larger half was 40g! So my 60g bar infact weighed 77g (79 extra calories).

I was in denial initially so weighed a 2kg dumbbell to check my scale was calibrated correctly and it was accurate to the gram.

I am going to weigh pretty much everything from now on.

ariamythe

I have neither the time nor the motivation for weighing all prepackaged/premeasured food. As with others, I'm okay with the variance. When I was in my long-term weight loss period, I dropped 70+ lbs over the course of a year without weighing such things, so it never became something that concerned me.

malibu927

Bread, yes, because the bread I usually use is high calorie. Others, not so much, especially if they tend to come out at/just below the weights when I do weigh them (yogurt cups and tuna packets especially).

Mr_Stabbems

agree with @ariamythe who has time to do that?

tomatoey

if you eat the whole loaf of bread, it's going to average out over the week

fivelongmiles

I tried for a while, but I'd find one slice of bread over and one under what the packaging said. As I'm the only person that eats the food I buy, it all averages out over time and I just don't care enough to become a person who's worried about one slice of bread being wrong.

cavia

Yes. I do. I weighed a frozen pizza and it was heavier than the nutrition label stated. The difference worked out to 71 calories. These things add up over the course of a day/week and eat into one's deficit.

Mr_Stabbems

the water content would change as it cooks, it would be lighter when cooked.

beansandchips

rabbitjb wrote: »

I do however get a minor thrill when it comes to the end of the sliced loaf and I get to eat the crust for the same calorie logging

Note to self: get a life

I get this thrill too! Noted note to self!!

LVNF04

I don't weigh food and I don't eat bread.

snowflakesav

No. My loss over time is roughly what calories in calories out predicts.

abovethecity

Nope, I never measure individual items like sliced bread, a single serving package of crackers, etc. Hasn't hindered my weight loss that I can tell in the past year.

PeachyCarol

Well, I don't usually eat bread (I have celiac disease), but I weigh packaged foods like protein bars and eggs because I found that they can vary widely. I weigh out portions of things like packaged gluten free crackers.

I have a bag of mini Snickers bars that I eat for dessert some nights. I don't weigh those.

AdamImadA

rabbitjb wrote: »

No I don't, I accept the possible 20% out guideline

But if I stopped hitting my targets over time I would

This^^

AdamImadA

And Costco samples are usually zero calorie

zyxst

I weigh about 80% of pre-packaged food. I don't weigh the 100g cups of yogurt or my frozen lasagna. I do weigh bread/buns/tortillas, cheese slices, sliced meats, chips/crackers, and cookies. Before 2014, I didn't weigh any pre-packaged foods and I had very little loss that year, so I started weighing more stuff. I know it evens out most of the time, but I thought if I tightened up on my logging, I'd drop more weight and I did, albeit very little (about .5# per month now).

Just keep in mind if you aren't weighing pre-packed foods and you ask for help on why you're not losing, people will tell you to weigh and measure everything.