foods that can't be scanned

yashimaynard638
yashimaynard638 Posts: 24 Member
edited November 19 in Health and Weight Loss
Everything that I eat can't be scanned and when I do my boyfriend gets upset how would I determine calories in half a cold cut sandwich rye bread with roast beef swish cheese

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  • yarwell
    yarwell Posts: 10,477 Member
    you enter the food items in the diary and it searches for the best match.
  • bpetrosky
    bpetrosky Posts: 3,911 Member
    Add foods, search for foods by name.
  • kshama2001
    kshama2001 Posts: 28,052 Member
    edited June 2015
    I don't scan anything. Did you make this sandwich yourself or get it from a store, and if so, which one?

    I had roast beef and swiss myself today. I got the info from the database. The first time I put in a food I verify it against the packages.

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  • blankiefinder
    blankiefinder Posts: 3,599 Member
    you use a food scale, weigh the bread, log it by looking up the brand and entering the serving size based on your food scale reading, then zero scale, add mayo and reweigh, log the mayo. Weigh the meats, log the meat...
  • yashimaynard638
    yashimaynard638 Posts: 24 Member
    yarwell wrote: »
    you enter the food items in the diary and it searches for the best match.

  • yashimaynard638
    yashimaynard638 Posts: 24 Member
    What if it's daily grocery store lunch meat
  • bpetrosky
    bpetrosky Posts: 3,911 Member
    Oh yeah, if your boyfriend gets upset at you for trying to take control of your own health, tell him he can very quickly be an EX boyfriend.
  • blankiefinder
    blankiefinder Posts: 3,599 Member
    Then ask what brand it is, or if it is the store brand, that should be in the database too... like if I type safeway bologna into the database it pops right up.
  • sanndandi
    sanndandi Posts: 300 Member
    almost all grocery store deli counters will let you have a peek at the nutrition label of the cold cuts. What I do is if I'm buying a new type of lunchmeat I've never had before I ask to see the label and I either scan the barcode right then and there or I take a picture of the nutrition label and input the information when I get home. You only have to do this once really as after that whenever you make a sandwich using that lunchmeat it will already be in your diary or in the database. I've never been told no I cant look at the label although I did get a chuckle and an alrighty then from the clerk, but I shrugged it off. no biggie.
  • blankiefinder
    blankiefinder Posts: 3,599 Member
    Oh, and if you make the same sandwich all the time, save it as a meal. In the photo posted above, see the quick tools? If you click on that in your diary, you can save that meal for the future. Then you can just adjust it as needed. Use a bit more meat? Add the meal then click on the meat to edit the quantity.
  • EvgeniZyntx
    EvgeniZyntx Posts: 24,208 Member
    edited June 2015
    You scan what you can. And that daily grocery store lunch meat, you just search lunch meat or Bologna. Sometimes you will be forced to guess. Try to use a food scale for the weight.

    Have a discussion with the boyfriend - if he's getting upset over this it likely that he needs a BIG clue. Make scanning fun or let him know he doesn't get to give an opinion on it.

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  • kshama2001
    kshama2001 Posts: 28,052 Member
    blankiefinder wrote: »
    Oh, and if you make the same sandwich all the time, save it as a meal. In the photo posted above, see the quick tools? If you click on that in your diary, you can save that meal for the future. Then you can just adjust it as needed. Use a bit more meat? Add the meal then click on the meat to edit the quantity.

    Good tip! I tweaked my screenshot:

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  • blankiefinder
    blankiefinder Posts: 3,599 Member
    Glad to help, I've been at this way too long :) The easier you can make it, the more likely you are to log accurately.
  • kshama2001
    kshama2001 Posts: 28,052 Member
    Yes, there's a bit of time required in the beginning, but once all your common foods are in, it takes very little time.
  • snickerscharlie
    snickerscharlie Posts: 8,578 Member
    bpetrosky wrote: »
    Oh yeah, if your boyfriend gets upset at you for trying to take control of your own health, tell him he can very quickly be an EX boyfriend.

    +1
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