I am sure this is a dumb question but

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  • earlnabby
    earlnabby Posts: 8,171 Member
    If you live alone, you can weigh food when you buy it.

    Counting kilojoules always drove me crazy, too much detail and I ended up obsessing about food because I had to weigh every damn thing that I was preparing.

    My solution was to buy food and just weigh it when it arrives in the house, and divide the kilojoules by the number of days I expected to eat it. So if I bought a bag of apples, I just weighed the bag and then divided by say 5 days to eat them, makes life much simpler. Obviously you can't do this if you live with someone, and you'd need to allow for throwing out food that was uneaten, but it made my life much easier.

    I do that with things like cheese that is packaged as 8 oz.. I cut it into 4 - 2 oz pieces and if I am not perfect on one, it will be corrected when I eat the rest. I also do this with recipes. I weigh and measure as I am making it, then if it is 4 servings, I eat it for 4 days and count each day's serving as 1/4 of the recipe while eyeballing the actual serving.

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