Question about adding items into my food diary

dvseg

So when the recipe calls for 1 Tbs of oil, i usually add the 1tbs into my diary which then equates to me eating 120 calories worth of oil. Obviously some of the oil cooks out and i don’t eat every drop of oil when consuming the meal as I’m sharing it with my family. Does anyone try to break it down to what they actually consume or just leave the whole tbs in the diary?

Megan_smartiepants1970

I leave it as a whole ...Are you measuring it has a tablespoon or do you measure it on a food scale on ML? I measure mine on a food scale which is 15ML...measuring cups and spoons are not very accurate is why I asked

dvseg

Usually the tbs, tsp, cup, type measuring

puffbrat

If it's a meal shared with others, use the recipe builder. Enter the total amount of each ingredient, and then choose an appropriate number of servings to reflect divisions. And do add the entire Tbs of oil in the recipe builder.

lynn_glenmont

Megan_smartiepants1970 wrote: »

I leave it as a whole ...Are you measuring it has a tablespoon or do you measure it on a food scale on ML? I measure mine on a food scale which is 15ML...measuring cups and spoons are not very accurate is why I asked

While I generally use the scale (measuring in grams, not milliliters, which a scale cannot actually measure, and assumes you're measuring water, not oil) for cooking oil for sauteeing, because it saves dirtying a measuring spoon (weigh bottle, tare scale, splash oil in pan, return bottle to scale), volume measure for liquids is generally reasonably accurate.