Food you don't bother logging

Oh yes, I allow myself a cup of skimmed milk per day for my coffee.

I don't log spices. I do tend to log mustard, lettuce and tomato on sandwiches, though I don't weigh them. For that matter, I don't weigh most veggies anymore. I have a pretty good idea how much broccoli or green beans or asparagus I've got on my plate and it's just not going to matter if I've got 17 calories or 20 calories.

Sometimes I won't log like a celery stalk or even like a quarter of a cucumber since it's so low. I don't log coffee if it's like 5 cal, but I log the milk or cream in it, etc. And like most others here- I don't log 0 cal chewing gum, cooking spray, spices in food, vitamin supplements. I am aware some vitamins like fish oil have like 10 cal for the serving, I just keep that in mind.

I don't measure the milk in my coffee as others have said, but have consciously overestimated to account for inaccuracies. Don't log chewing gum, tea (only because I only have herbal teas that have pretty much no calories), chewing gum, diet coke, any vitamin supplements and the very rare taste of a couple chips or a spoonful of my husband's meal.
However, I walk at least 40 minutes daily to work and on gym days I walk 90 minutes (to and from work and gym), which I do not log to account for inaccuracies (even though I weigh everything). I like not having to worry about logging the occasional taste of something.

I don't log my morning coffee (I drink it black), Diet Pepsi, or any seasonings and spices I use. I have thought about logging the pop and seasonings just to get an idea of the sodium, but I just make a mental note of it.

Herbs, spices, coffee (I drink it black), tea. Sometimes I log garlic, sometimes I don't -- no real reason. Lately I've been lazy about stuff like mustard and vinegar and sriracha and have been doing a quick add of 20 calories to more than cover what I used (for example when making a dressing or marinade -- although I always log olive oil if I use it, of course).

Basically, the pattern is I don't log things that have very few calories and that I don't need a record of. I log greens (even when they are 5 calories) because I like a record of the vegetables I've eaten. Stuff like herbs and spices are reasonably consistent so won't be a difference in a day, and aren't something I feel compelled to have a record of. Coffee I should log based on this reasoning, but I just don't feel like it.

I don't log anything 0 calories (spices, black coffee, black tea, diet coke). I just don't see the point.

Every once in a while I'll have a piece of chocolate that I don't log (like a 40 calorie dove chocolate square or a few m&m's, not a full hershey's bar or anything). But I've been really diligent about it lately.

Gum (though I chew so much I probably should), diet soda/seltzer, cinnamon.

I do eat a couple of "zero" calorie things and I find ways to log them, usually at 5 calories per serving. May sound dumb but I eat a lot of little 10-20 calorie things and they add up at the end of the day/week.

I don't log...

-Vitamin and mineral supplements. I know how many calories are there, but I absolutely cannot avoid them. I also can't choose a vitamin or supplement with fewer calories, so I ignore them. They're so few that they alone fall within the margin of error of some of the foods I have to weigh to eat. Besides, vits make me He-Man. Ok, She-Ra, but even She-Ra can't do anything about the extra cals.

-Herbs and seasonings. They simply don't have enough cals for me to worry about. I tracked my herb use for two weeks of typical cooking and the total was less than 100 cals for 14 days. Again, well within the margin of error of my daily food weighs. If I eat a pound of the stuff, I'll log it. I'll also be calling my psychiatrist.

-Beverages that have essentially zero calories like tea and coffee. (Starbucks tall skinny vanilla lattes are logged exactly as that). If I add cream to coffee or tea, I log both pieces just so I know why I had that cream. Maybe one day I'll lose my mind and chug 1oz of heavy cream. I don't know, but it could happen. By logging both pieces, I'll be able to see the cream-only log entry and pinpoint the day I lost all the cheese on my cracker.


I log everything else, including condiments, tastes from hubby's plate, and ZOMG! the samples at the grocery store. I don't log all the times I end up swallowing dog or cat fur, but I'm pretty sure those are low cal enough I'm ok.

Not that I'd log vitamins, but it's not really a question of whether those calories are avoidable, it's a question of crowding out calories that are avoidable. Yes, I get that it's not many calories, it's more the logic of it.