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    Just bought a food scale; what do I weigh?

    Posts: 596 Member
    edited November 2024 in Food and Nutrition
    im definitely going to weigh my meat. What else? Fruits? Vegetables?

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    • Posts: 816 Member
      All solids. Including packaged food, if you're up for it, as it does vary from the label.
    • Posts: 1,168 Member
      all of it. I even weigh store bought baked goods like bread, pitas and tortillas, etc and they are always over the weight on the package - sometimes enough to make a big difference in calories
    • Posts: 375 Member
      Pretty much everything but liquids! For very low-cal items like lettuce or spinach I tend to just eyeball it. Everything else, however, I weigh.
    • Posts: 112 Member
      If you choose not to weigh everything, I would say nuts, peanut butter, meats, cheese. Anything that packs a serious punch and a small amount can make a difference. I started by weighing things like bananas and apples to get a feel for it and now I can get away with estimating for those and it doesn't effect loss.
    • Posts: 1,369 Member
      Weigh your bread, too! We get a lot of sourdough and such that is irregular by design and there is no way to get an accurate sense of what the serving size is given wildly differing slice sizes!
    • Posts: 44 Member
      I food prep on Sundays and say I make a soup recipe that is supposed to make 4 servings, I weigh it out evenly into 4 plastic containers. Very helpful for splitting recipes.
    • Posts: 29,136 Member
      everything that you can.

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    • Posts: 64 Member
      Agreed.
      Everything you can weigh, you weigh. Period.
    • Posts: 1,094 Member
      Everything. Just weighed tuna, broccoli and ice cream for dinner. I even weigh my coffee creamer when I'm at home on weekends.
    • Posts: 232 Member
      Ive heard that you should weigh EVERYTHING......except your cat. I found out the hard way that cats are VERY sensitive about their weight.......
    • Posts: 284 Member
      everything except liquids
    • Posts: 595 Member
      AquabearGO wrote: »
      Ive heard that you should weigh EVERYTHING......except your cat. I found out the hard way that cats are VERY sensitive about their weight.......

      You can't tell the cat you're weighing them. Just let them think it's a fancy cat throne. Or put a cardboard box on it, and tare the scale. The cat cannot resist a box, and will never know.


    • Posts: 18,874 Member
      If it's not liquid, it goes on the scale.
    • Posts: 29,136 Member
      i weight some liquids but not that many ….
    • Posts: 15 Member
      AquabearGO wrote: »
      Ive heard that you should weigh EVERYTHING......except your cat. I found out the hard way that cats are VERY sensitive about their weight.......

      CUTE!
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