I weigh my food

jojo2102
jojo2102 Posts: 4
in Food and Nutrition
Hello this is my first post so please be kind.
I weigh my food and when I went to database I could not find a way to put in weight and not cups or measures can anyone help ?
I like to know I have logged 50grams not a cup ??? How can I do this please x

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  • Eric_DeCastro
    Eric_DeCastro Posts: 767 Member
    might have to click create food.
  • jojo2102
    jojo2102 Posts: 4
    Thankyou's will have a look around !
  • MinnieInMaine
    MinnieInMaine Posts: 6,400 Member
    Check for other listings. Sometimes things are misspelled or you could be too specific with your search criteria.
  • Holly_Roman_Empire
    Holly_Roman_Empire Posts: 4,440 Member
    I'm too lazy to enter a new food. So a serving size for my coffee creamer is 2 teaspoons and next to it, it says (5g). I weigh about 15 grams of it and log it in the database as 3 servings of 2 teaspoons. Sure it requires some math conversion, but that's easier and less time consuming for me.
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    type in whatever it is and "usda" after it. that should bring the item up in grams.
  • owenmhartley
    owenmhartley Posts: 220 Member
    Are you using the app? If so do the search in recent foods not my foods because that's for creating your own listing, most things are available you just select the serving size and it should give you your options
  • yukifer
    yukifer Posts: 41
    I weigh my food as well. I think that most of the foods that are MFP sourced have the weight option. User sourced is limited. If it starts with an asterisk (*) then it was entered by a user, without one is was entered by MFP. I choose those ones for meat and vegetables. If I have 95g of chicken, I'll choose the 100g gram unit and enter .95
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    I'm too lazy to enter a new food. So a serving size for my coffee creamer is 2 teaspoons and next to it, it says (5g). I weigh about 15 grams of it and log it in the database as 3 servings of 2 teaspoons. Sure it requires some math conversion, but that's easier and less time consuming for me.

    This. The only problem is that you need the package so you know how many grams are in a serving... I've had to fish stuff out of the trash because of it :p

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