Calories for milk in Tea and butter

I try to avoid milk at all costs but sometimes it's impossible.

I never added milk into my logs because the amount I drink is very insignificant. I guess it would depend on how much you drink ?

If you're serious about losing weight and want to be honest with yourself. Then log EVERYTHING.
If you're not honest with yourself, then you only have yourself to blame when you don't lose weight/body fat.

I log it, I only have about 30-40ml in my coffee (measure it out)...The 3 coffee's that I have (instant) usually come in at 90 calories for the day (I do have sugar too).
The margarine I use I weigh too, again, I don't use an awful lot but it all adds up. The thing I'm guilty of not doing is measuring out my sauces (bbq, ketchup etc.)

I was ignoring the little things, but now that I'm going to a bulk I'm being more anal about it all.
Previously, as my weight loss was going as I wanted, wihle I knew the figures were out by maybe 50-250 a day for food, I wasn't bothered.
If you regularly log milk at home (stick the bottom on some digital scales before, set to 0, pour then see what negative number it shows), you should have a good idea when you're away.

I measured how much milk I have in one cup then took the average cups of tea I drink in a day. It worked out at 200mls of fat free milk a day which I just add into my diary every morning routinely. For butter I weighed how much I used on my toast one morning (5g) and add that each time I have butter.
At work we have semi skimmed milk so I just try to use a tiny bit of milk in each cup.

For dinner I never use more than 1/2 cup of melted butter. That usually is enough to sautée veggies and add flavor to anything else. I usually stay less than 200 calories with it though. And for milk, I use fat free which is 90 calories per cup, but it's still logged, even when a small amount.

I weight the milk when I use it in hot drinks: mug on scales > pour in hot drink (expresso, hot water, tea) > take out tea bags or spoons > zero scales > pour in milk >> tadaa! scales tell me how much milk i've used.

for some things I make regularly like porridge, I have adjusted my recipe so that I can make it using one of *my*expresso cups to measure the porridge oats and the milk and then i've set up the recipe, so I know that my recipe for porridge is one expresso cup of oats and two of milk

if you're really stressed about the milk you're using when out an about, then you could take something like a measuring spoon with you - but I suspect that if you were to practice at home with the measuring spoon and scales, you will get to learn how to approximate your milk serving better.

I used to weight my breakfast cereal and milk every morning (for a couple of months), now I weight it once a week, and so far i've always been +/- 10ml milk which right now is good enough for me, this only works at home, using my bowl though

for toast - i weight the toast, butter it, then weigh it again - though i usually don't butter my toast I apply this same method for peanut butter and nutella

good luck

For dinner I never use more than 1/2 cup of melted butter. That usually is enough to sautée veggies and add flavor to anything else. I usually stay less than 200 calories with it though. And for milk, I use fat free which is 90 calories per cup, but it's still logged, even when a small amount.

Just to say a cup isn't really an accurate measure of butter. Also 1/2 a cup will likely be nearer the 800 mark than 200 which you are logging

I meant 1/4. My bad. Also, I said melted. Cups are accurate when using liquids.

For butter on toast and milk in tea and coffee, I log a standard amount based on how much I was using a few months ago. As it's the same amount I've been using for years, I've no reason to suspect that it's changed. Of course, if I were to stop losing they would be the first things to be accurately measured (before I came onto the forums to check for other reasons!)

If I'm using butter or milk in cooking, it gets weighed or measured, just like any other high calorie food. I don't tend to accurately weigh my veggies in a recipe - there's generally not a lot of difference across servings if your courgettes weigh 450g, rather than 500g! (But again, thye're first against the wall when the plateau comes...)

I always weigh butter because fats are so calorie dense but the tiny splash I used to log for skimmed milk no longer gets logged and doesn't seem to make any difference. You could calculate a daily average for your milk and deduct it from your preset daily allowance if you get tired of logging it?