How far is too far? (food scales)

sugarfreesquirrel
sugarfreesquirrel Posts: 268 Member
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Do you take your food scales to the movies? a friends house for dinner? a potluck? at restaurants? weddings? on holiday?

When would you go, "that's so embarrassing, I'm not doing that!"

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  • corinasue1143
    corinasue1143 Posts: 7,460 Member
    Mine never leaves my kitchen
  • sugarfreesquirrel
    sugarfreesquirrel Posts: 268 Member
    Sinisterbarbie1 wrote: »
    Agree with corinasue. If you weigh things regularly you can eyeball special occasion one off meals fairly accurately. Love the question though - for some reason I was imagining it as a Dr Seuss book a la green eggs and ham… I will weigh things on a boat, and when traveling by goat, I will weigh them in the air, if I look goofy I don’t care - I will weigh them everywhere!

    Best post!!! Haha had me giggling
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    sugarfreesquirrel wrote: »
    Do you take your food scales to the movies? a friends house for dinner? a potluck? at restaurants? weddings? on holiday?

    When would you go, "that's so embarrassing, I'm not doing that!"

    Mine has never left my kitchen and I use it primarily for meat or for things that are very calorie dense for small amounts. I've never weighed every little thing. Trying to achieve perfection in an imperfect science is not my bag. I never let perfection be the enemy of good or good enough. There is a whole lot of estimation with this science, even if you are weighing every little thing. Food labels and restaurant nutritional information is allowed something like 20% error...not every 4 oz piece of chicken is going to have the same exact composition as the next, etc.
  • Peachesnstuff
    Peachesnstuff Posts: 1,261 Member
    If you take it to bed with you...you know you've gone too far!
  • Alinouveau2
    Alinouveau2 Posts: 6,485 Member
    A scales tip ... don't dunk it in water to wash it...it won't like it. Then you'll go to the kitchen store nearby and buy a new one and get a lot of baking and cooking stuff cause you're mad someone broke your scale.
  • pamperedlinny
    pamperedlinny Posts: 1,690 Member
    Sinisterbarbie1 wrote: »
    Agree with corinasue. If you weigh things regularly you can eyeball special occasion one off meals fairly accurately. Love the question though - for some reason I was imagining it as a Dr Seuss book a la green eggs and ham… I will weigh things on a boat, and when traveling by goat, I will weigh them in the air, if I look goofy I don’t care - I will weigh them everywhere!

    Best answer to anything I've seen all day. :D

    In seriousness though, I have one in my kitchen. When I used to work in the office I would also keep one in my desk. In my defense, I think I was at the office as much as I was home and there was ALWAYS food around. I would just make up a little plate, bring it back to my desk and discretely weigh things out. I also took it on a mini-vacation once but I had a doctor appointment for having my A1C check, fasting numbers check and general doctor follow up the same week so only that once.
  • ythannah
    ythannah Posts: 4,373 Member
    My main scale never leaves my kitchen but a few years ago I saw an adorable little pocket size portable scale, slightly smaller than a cigarette pack, on sale dirt cheap so I bought it with the half-formed intention of being able to carry it around and weigh stuff. Probably thinking of vacations. I'm mostly concerned with weighing my main protein portions to be sure I'm getting enough.

    It occurred to me much later that I most likely bought a drug scale. That's my embarrassing scale story.

    I've never brought it anywhere, it sits beside its big brother on the counter. But I do use it to measure things like herbs and spices for recipes because it does 10ths of a gram.

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