What do you weigh on your food scale?
hballack
Posts: 114 Member
Hello,
Recently bought a food scale and I am loving it! I started weighing all of my meat, whole fruits, and "bad foods" like ice cream.
At work I snack on nuts sometimes and wish I had my scale available to weigh those instead of just eating a "handful".
What do you weigh on your food scale? (Hint Hint, I'm looking for ideas for what else I should be weighing.)
Thanks,
Heather
Recently bought a food scale and I am loving it! I started weighing all of my meat, whole fruits, and "bad foods" like ice cream.
At work I snack on nuts sometimes and wish I had my scale available to weigh those instead of just eating a "handful".
What do you weigh on your food scale? (Hint Hint, I'm looking for ideas for what else I should be weighing.)
Thanks,
Heather
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Everything.0
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Drinks, powders, grains, etc...0
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Pasta and rice mostly, because I always over portion myself if I measure by eye. I used to measure porridge as well, until I started using the little easy prepare packs.0
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Nothing! I'm not going to weigh food forever, so I don't weigh it now. Way too much trouble.0
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Everything.
Yep! I weigh out snacks before I take them to work. Also, I weigh salad dressing, peanut butter, chocoloate syrup, and anything else I'd normally have to use a spoon for. For accuracy AND because I don't want to wash the measuring spoons six times a day.0 -
Anything non-liquid0
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everything0
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I stepped on it, and it broke, so I can't tell how much I weigh
Seriously... it's best to start with calorie-dense foods, things with inconsistent shapes and volumes, or both. Things like peanut butter, breakfast cereal, pretzels.
Some scales read negative, which is helpful. So you can do things like put a big container of peanuts on it, zero it out, grab a few handfuls, and then when it's done it reads how much you've taken, rather than putting it into a container.0 -
Everything.0
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There's very little I DON'T weigh on my food scale. Sometimes I even weigh prepackaged foods to make sure they contain how much they say they contain. Cheese, vegetables, fruit, cottage cheese, snack crackers, nuts, peanut butter. I even weigh lettuce even though a little extra has very few calories.0
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I weigh meat and all "bad" foods as you say.I also weigh pasta. I find I always overdo it when I measure by the cup ("Oh, I might as well give myself two rounded cups" or I stuff spaghetti so tight in the cup that I can't get it out!). I always overeat pasta, so the scale has helped keep me honest. I bought a cheaper manual scale at work so I can weigh there too. I have my fancy digital one at home. I'd get one for work. I find it helps.0
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I weight everything.. love my scales :flowerforyou:0
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Everything0
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*In my Katt Williams voice*
Ev-er-y-thang.
Everythang?
Ev-er-y-thang!
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Almost everything. I don't weigh liquids like milk, though, I use measuring spoons/cups for that. I measure the food I take to work. Nuts, peanut butter, chips, ice cream, cereal, meat, fruit, veggies, protein powder, butter, sugar, cheese, sauces (ketchup, sour cream, dressing)....0
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Fast food.
Fries, for example, are usually 25-50% more than the nutrition info states.0 -
Everything:bigsmile:0
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i weigh everything. i've even found weighing tough stuff like peanut butter works out better than trying to measure it. i've found that packages quite often misstate a food size. for example, the last package of cheese slices i bought claimed each slice weighed 21 grams, but they were actually 24! those small bits add up.0
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Everything.
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