I've bought digital kitchen scales but how do I input food weights

bobinpeterboro

As it says in the title really. I'll give you an example, I've just had 45 grams of Kellogs Rice Crispies, 180 grams of semi skimmed milk and 7 grams of white granulated sugar.
I can get fairly near those amounts on the food selection pages but not exactly the right amounts. Even when I use the number of portions on the next page it's still not exactly the right weight.
Is there a way of inputting the exact weight of stuff I've eaten?

Sued0nim

Yes

Hang on I will take some screen grabs

bobinpeterboro

shadow2soul

create your own food entry for it with the serving size in grams. Then from the drop down selection of serving sizes you will get the option of 1 g.
example:
Great Value Honey Graham Cracker
serving size 31 g
^So I would create a food entry using this information
Say I wanted to log 16 g of it
I'd change the serving size from 31 g to 1 g
Then with the serving size as 1 g, I'd say I had 16 servings
It then shows in my diary that I had 16 g of GV Honey Graham Cracker

bobinpeterboro

Ahh right, and would that work out the nutrients and calories accordingly as well?

Sued0nim

Right

When you choose your food like Kellogg's Rice crispies, over to the right there is a servings and a drop down menu for the type of quantity

So originally the quantity was 30g but I can select 1g then enter 45 servings

Sometimes you get 100g so you'd pick 0.45 servings




PS a lot of those entries in the MFP database are wrong so check against the box

Sued0nim

If the drop down doesn't have 100g or 1g choose another option

Or you can enter it yourself as a new food

Once you start building up foods you like they are all in your recent or frequent foods so you can pick them from there

Hope that helps

bobinpeterboro

Thanks for the help ladies, I'm off to the food bit now to have a play with entering foods.....


....I may be back in a few minutes even more confused.

bobinpeterboro

Haha, it's easy, cheers for the help.

LoveIshie

Bob, please click the following links below.

https://youtu.be/a6GVSI3PSvA

https://youtu.be/_6Il4BBBTJc (I am not sure why the guy weighed he banana with the pill on this video. Seems like a lot more trouble lol. You can avoid all of that by simply taking the pill of and just weigh the actual banana you plan to eat. Make sure to lay a plastic rap or bowl on the scale and your scale set to zero before you put the banana on.

I hope this was helpful.

bobinpeterboro

Haha yes, leaving the peel on did seem a bit silly but the videos were helpful lovelshie thanks.

LoveIshie

LOL, you are welcome! Happy to help!

yarwell

shadow2soul wrote: »

create your own food entry for it with the serving size in grams. Then from the drop down selection of serving sizes you will get the option of 1 g.
example:
Great Value Honey Graham Cracker
serving size 31 g
^So I would create a food entry using this information
Say I wanted to log 16 g of it
I'd change the serving size from 31 g to 1 g
Then with the serving size as 1 g, I'd say I had 16 servings
It then shows in my diary that I had 16 g of GV Honey Graham Cracker

0.5 of a serving would be near enough ?