This maybe a silly question, but...

Katejohnston000

This is a two-parter:

1) I have digital food scales; do I weigh each food item before or after I've cooked it?

2) how do you weigh things like chicken, peas, veg etc? (It seems like a very messy idea - I have small platform-like scales)

kmtbest

1.) Depends on what the database has it listed as
2.) Use a bowl or plate and "zero" or "tare" the scales this deducts the weight of the bowl and takes it back to zero and then add the food.

medic61799

1) weigh all food after cooking so it is the actual amount you consumed, not what you started out with.
2) My scale is also digital and like a platform. I use a paper plate to put the meat on and then zero the scale. When I forget to zero the scale before adding the meat, I weigh a clean plate for the subtraction (my cheap plates are from Walmart and have a little bit of a shiny coating so nothing absorbs and weigh 0.4)

Katejohnston000

Thanks guys! :-) I'll remember this for when I need to do it :-)