New Owner of a Food Scale!!!

Eh I have two. One died... One is on the counter and one on the dining room table. I just weigh everything... put the plate on, turn it on, it will show 0, then add my foot one thing at a time and tare it in between. Done.

Food scale sits on the countertop for use whenever I want it

I use the 100g entry in the database for foods whenever I can for easy logging (weigh 66g, log 0.66 servings). I suspect using MFP's 1g conversion will have the same effect

I do not turn my scale off anymore but instead let it time out. If I'm cooking and weighing multiple items I might tap it from time to time so it doesn't time out, making me have to wait for it to power on before I can weigh the next item

I have two. One at work and one at home. If the one at home ever gets put up, it goes in the thin cabinet above the microwave. But most of the time it gets moved back and forth between the bar and the dining table. The one at work goes in my desk drawer when I lock up for the day, other than that, it is on the corner of my desk.

It is a good idea to weigh your pots and bowls, so that when you are cooking a recipe that isn't easy to cut into slices, you can weigh it, do the math, then decide on portion size. Like mentioned above, the 100g thing makes life easier.

And I weigh everything.

Good luck, and enjoy your new scale.

Larro

Mine stays on the counter next to the stove.

As far as tips go, when you're weighing something out of a container like a spoonful of peanut butter or yogurt, remove the lid, set the container on the scale, zero out, scoop out your portion, and the negative reading is your measurement.

Tag for reference, thx!

Mine stays on the counter next to the stove.

As far as tips go, when you're weighing something out of a container like a spoonful of peanut butter or yogurt, remove the lid, set the container on the scale, zero out, scoop out your portion, and the negative reading is your measurement.

Oh, I like this. Sticky things are maddening.

Hello all!

I am proud to announce that, after much deliberation, I have finally decided to go out and purchase a food scale! So far I love it! The scale even has a bunch of foods with pre-loaded nutrition facts, which so far I have verified online just in case. I was wondering if anybody has any tips, tricks, advice, or words of wisdom for me? Where do you store your scale, how often do you use it, and how much do you think it has helped you with your new lifestyle? Thank you for any answers that you may have! :flowerforyou:

I keep my scale in a drawer next to the fridge. Some days it hangs out all day on the counter though.

When I first got my scale I looked up foods in the database, but that was a great big pain for me. Too many imperial measurements, too much math required for the entries that are in grams (e.g. something listed in grams only has the option of 30g, but I need to log 7g.), too many entries inputted in a stupid way (e.g. every serving amount listed in the dropdown has 5oz in parenthesis next to it, despite the options increasing in portion size), and how many servings total are in whatever as if that info is somehow useful and not prone to screwing the whole entry up.
I only use the database now for foods that are single serving prepackaged, the few decent entries that ended up in my frequent foods list, or for things I'm pretty sure I'm not going to log again in the near future.

Everything else I just create a whole new entry for myself and pull my food from "my foods" whenever I log. So if some food item I eat regularly has the nutrition label being for 28g a serving, I create a new entry for that food and copy the label EXCEPT for the number of servings total (i.e. I ignore that it has 40 servings in a package/tub/etc). My 28g entry is entered as if it's a single serving food, because I really don't care how many servings there are total, that information is useless to me for logging, if not a point of aggravation. This way, when I go to log, the only choices I have is 1g or 28g from the drop down, and then I enter the quantity in the quantity box. So if I have 27g, I then pick 1g and type in the qty box: 27. If I have 28g, then I pick 28g and type in qty: 1. If I have 200g, I pick 1g and type in qty: 200. If I have 56g, I pick 1g and type in qty box: 56. I could also pick 28g and qty 2 but that's math..

This may seem like a lot of work, and it is initially when creating new entries, until you have personal entries for most of your foods that are in regular rotation ready to go, then logging is sooo much easier. I think it's a lot more work to use the database to hunt down the most sensible entry for your food item (and have to do a bunch of math/fractions anyway regardless) multiple times a day.

I also was going to suggest the tip of weighing peanut butter (or anything you spoon out) by putting the tub on the scale, zeroing out, and then logging the negative. When I first came across that tip, my world changed, lol.

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