This maybe a silly question, but...

Katejohnston000
Katejohnston000 Posts: 11 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
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)

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  • kmtbest
    kmtbest Posts: 8 Member
    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
    medic61799 Posts: 1
    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
    Katejohnston000 Posts: 11 Member
    Thanks guys! :-) I'll remember this for when I need to do it :-)

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