My new ooh-la-la food scale

sodakat
sodakat Posts: 1,126 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
I bought a new food scale Monday. Until now I've been using the scale I bought to weigh my parrots (I keep Eclectus parrots) by removing the perch and using just the scale base. It worked okay except I was not confident it was weighing the real low gram weights accurately, such as croutons and sun dried tomatoes, for instance.

So I went to Walmart for another reason and decided to look at food scales. There were a lot of them! Most required 2 "AA" batteries and ran about $20 or less. There were a couple priced higher including the one I selected. It is a Better Homes and Garden digital scale that was discounted from $34 to $25. Lithium batteries.

Well, the cool thing about it, IMO, is that it has the ability to tell me more than weight of foods. It can tell me the number of grams of fat, protein, carbs, cholesterol, sodium in a large range of foods. There is a small booklet which has a food code (3 digit number) and if the scale is cycled to the setting for this feature, I see the breakdown by macro! Love it.

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  • SLLRunner
    SLLRunner Posts: 12,942 Member
    Neat! I like my digital food scale too, but would love the extra features you have.
  • realtrueblue
    realtrueblue Posts: 12 Member
    Ooh! That sounds fabulous! I need to get a new food scale - and yours sounds whizz, bang, pop, fabulous! I love that you got the discount also. Sweetens the deal! Congratulations on so much weight lost by the way. You are inspiring me! Thanks!

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