So, I finally bought a food scale...

KayJaMikel

Okay, will be working on it.

Now, I have another question.

I eat this snack food where there is an entry that allows you to put cups/half cups, but no grams or ounces.

I tried entering my own entry so i could specify grams or ounces, but it doesn't let me.

How do you specify grams or ounces, rather than cups?

I have looked all over the food area, and I cannot seem to find any way to do that.

Usually on the label, it will say serving size 1/2 cup (xxx grams). What I do is weigh out the grams, but when I log it, I log 1/2 cup.

This particular item does not have that on the back label. So, I created my own entry with total bag weight of 248 g, then bag says it has 9 servings, and I chose the gram options and put in how much my scale told me i was eating weighed.

I didn't know this, but it seems unless you enter grams in (xx g) in the name of the item, it won't give you grams options.

MissJay75

This is going to sound more complicated than it actually is but bare with me. I'm going to give a "making dinner for peeps example."

If I am making mashed potatoes for people, I will get my scale (which has a tare feature), put one ingredient in the bowl, note the grams it has, then tare it out and put another ingredient in the bowl, tare it out, etc. Doesn't take long. Spices and stuff I don't bother with unless it states it has calories.

From here, put it in the recipe finder and note how many grams per serving it is. So if I made mashed potatoes that weighed 500g total, but I want it to be two servings, one serving size would be 250g. Say though you only had 213g. You would do simple math to determine your serving size. (213 / 250 = .852 serving size), which is what you would record in your diary.

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Spices are not really something you should worry about calories unless it states it has calories, I guess and example would be raw cocoa powder, it is really low in calories but it has calories. The exception I guess would be salt if you are in a health concern where you would need to watch your salt intake.

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Oils, this is easy (for me). Pam spray where you barely coat the cooking pot, I don't bother, but don't drench the thing either!

For things like olive oil and asparagus with salt and pepper. I put the asparagus on the scale, tare it out to zero, then I take them off for a sec to properly coat them in oil (I do it with my hands is why I take them off). Then just put them back on and the new number will be the added weight of oil, which you would measure.

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Sauces and stuff you cook in, I would just include it in your recipe and do the serving thing as said before, it won't be exact (since sometimes you may get more meat thank chicken in a scoop and vise verse), but it won't be so far off that it will hurt you either.

For gravy you put on after, just measure it like you would anything else.

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It sounds complicated, but the tare feature in scales now makes everything take a grand two seconds extra to weigh out.

Stupid me bought one without a TARE feature, even though when I was shopping, I was looking to buy one with a TARE feature. I guess I saw a button there and thought it said TARE. This one has mode and on and off.

But it seems to reset if I remove the tiny little plastic bowl it came with. if i take the bowl off, it goes - in weight, weird, so it somehow adjusted for the bowl weight.

I don't know if this will work, but it's worth a shot. Leave the scale off. Put the dish on the scale. NOW turn the scale on and see if it's set to zero. If so, you can 'manually' tare it between additions by turning your scale off.

MelodyandBarbells

The on/off button is also Tare on all my scales. Worth checking