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    Peanut Butter - How to measure it?

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    • Posts: 255 Member
      Eyeballing peanut butter is a NO NO. Peanut butter is deceiving!

      I personally use a digital kitchen scale for that matter.
      Place jar on scale, turn on scale so it reads a zero, spoon out some peanut butter, the scale then reads grams in minus, which is how much I spooned out.

      You have to be smarter than peanut butter.

      ^^^ This! I have to weigh it out on a food scale
    • Posts: 152 Member
      I lay my bread (or bowl, or whatever) on the scale, zero out button, add the PB.

      ^ This.

      I weigh my PB in grams instead of a measuring spoon.
    • Posts: 915 Member
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      I do this, or i place the spoon on the scale, zero the scale, scoop peanut butter with spoon, and then place on scale.

      I do this too
    • Posts: 547 Member
      Like others mentioned, I usually place bread or cracker on the scale, zero out, then use a butter knife to apply the PB until I get to 32g. I would do the jar one if I was eating it straight or putting it in something. You can be off by a LOT of cals with PB by just measuring.
    • Posts: 512 Member
      there's peanut butter left on the spoon afterwards???? How does that happen?? I've never seen this phenomena...

      That's what tongues are for....
    • Posts: 1,167 Member
      i level it
    • Posts: 1,084 Member
      i put mine in a tablespoon measure spoon and use a knife to level it out and then scrape it out and spread it on whatever. I then lick the spoon and the knife to make sure I get my whole tablespoon. i never thought to weight the jar before and after. I probably won't because I feel there won't be the same balance and that would throw it off, but everyone has their own way. :drinker:
    • Posts: 398 Member
      I didn't read the other posters but what I do is take a spoon, put it on the scale to calibrate it. Once the scale is at 0, I put peanut butter on the spoon and put it back onto the scale in small increments until I get to the grams I want. Likewise, I use a piece of bread in the place of the spoon. It doesn't matter either way though because no matter how meticulous I am about weighing peanut butter I end up eating the whole jar and hating myself later.
    • Posts: 486
      I have measured the circumference of my waist, chest and hips....i grab a handful and smear it all over myself and then consume said peanut butter.

      i then log it based on thickness and those circumferential measurements.

      it works.

      try it.
    • Posts: 2,148 Member
      I do this, or i place the spoon on the scale, zero the scale, scoop peanut butter with spoon, and then place on scale.

      This. Plus then you get to lick the spoon completely without guilt, because that delicious peanut butter is already measured and included in your diary so if you don't eat it your diary will be off!
    • Posts: 1,084 Member
      Put peanut butter jar on scale, zero it, scoop out peanut butter, read weight.
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      that's just nasty.... and yet I sit here laughing my *kitten* off... literally I hope.
    • Posts: 931 Member
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      That's what tongues are for....
      QFT. And maybe a finger or two first
    • Posts: 17 Member
      There are these awesome messuring tools you can get that work like a syringe and help you press it all out and messure it exactly. I just refridate my all natural stuff so it turns hard/dry and it's easy to messure with normal messuring tools and it doesn't stick.
    • Posts: 1,549 Member
      I didn't realize this was a real question :huh: ...........but dang, if you guys didn't come up with answers :drinker:

      :laugh:
    • Posts: 6,998 Member
      You guys ROCK. You have just changed my relationship with peanut butter. I never thought about putting the dang jar on the scale. :flowerforyou: :flowerforyou: :flowerforyou:

      I put my *bread* on the scale, add PB, and weigh it again.
    • Posts: 1,006 Member
      I just measure with a tablespoon measuring spoon and level the peanut butter with a knife and then use the knife to get all of the peanut butter off from the spoon.
    • Posts: 128 Member
      Goodness, does everyone own a scale? I don't! I have some ****ty non electric scale that is very difficult to get good measurements on. UGH I need a scale. Christmas present? haha
    • Posts: 220 Member
      I weigh myself first. Then eat the peanut butter. Then weigh myself again. The difference is what the peanut butter must've weighed. Right? Amirite?


      Yup - this one for me too!!!


      YAAAAAY PEANUT BUTTER!!!
    • Posts: 2,525 Member
      I always weigh it. If I am having it on toast, I put the toast on the scale and zero it out, then spread the peanut butter to get my serving size in grams.

      This. I usually just put however much peanut butter I want, and then calculate how many servings that is, be it .55 or .75 or 1.18 ;)
    • Posts: 12,294 Member
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      Use measuring cups/tablespoons for food, and then weigh it. You'll find out why weighing it matters.
      ^ This
      Measuring solid foods is a bad idea if you want to be accurate, even more so for calorie dense food.
      Solids should be weighed, and liquids measured.
    • Posts: 7,010 Member
      How do you measure peanut butter? I read that if you eyeball it, you will underestimate it. However if you put it in a measuring spoon, it seems that a lot will stay in the spoon. How do you level the spoon?

      I figure that someone has figured this out.

      You weigh it....just like you should measure all of your food.
    • Posts: 209 Member
      I eat the whole jar in one sitting... It ensures I know exactly how much I ate.... lol obviously just kidding.. I am a peanut butter addict! Like everyone has already said..... weigh it..
    • Posts: 5,926 Member
      I weigh myself first. Then eat the peanut butter. Then weigh myself again. The difference is what the peanut butter must've weighed. Right? Amirite?

      :laugh:

      Such simple concept! Why didn't I think of that!?

      :drinker:
    • Posts: 772 Member
      Eyeballing peanut butter is a NO NO. Peanut butter is deceiving!

      I personally use a digital kitchen scale for that matter.
      Place jar on scale, turn on scale so it reads a zero, spoon out some peanut butter, the scale then reads grams in minus, which is how much I spooned out.

      You have to be smarter than peanut butter.
      This, that way when u lick the sppon, it still counts
    • Posts: 39,744 Member
      I weigh myself first. Then eat the peanut butter. Then weigh myself again. The difference is what the peanut butter must've weighed. Right? Amirite?
      heh
    • Posts: 772 Member
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      :laugh:

      Such simple concept! Why didn't I think of that!?

      :drinker:
      What if u put the peanut butter on toast
      .how much is peanut butter how much is bread?
      Or pb jelly samich?
    • Posts: 22,281 Member
      Put peanut butter jar on scale, zero it, scoop out peanut butter, read weight.
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      me too. me too. except it's an elephant on my chest. and I'm now about to DNA test all the spoons in our house.
    • Posts: 22,281 Member
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      What if u put the peanut butter on toast
      .how much is peanut butter how much is bread?
      Or pb jelly samich?

      silly, then i weight the bread and jelly and subtract those weights from mine. lol. you guise. it's already been said but, YOU HAVE TO BE SMARTER THAN YOUR PEANUT BUTTER!
    • Posts: 394 Member
      I always weigh it. If I am having it on toast, I put the toast on the scale and zero it out, then spread the peanut butter to get my serving size in grams.

      That's exactly what I do too when I put it on toast
    • Posts: 7
      I FULLY agree with having to be smarter than the PB!
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