I've bought digital kitchen scales but how do I input food weights

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bobinpeterboro
bobinpeterboro Posts: 20 Member
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As it says in the title really. I'll give you an example, I've just had 45 grams of Kellogs Rice Crispies, 180 grams of semi skimmed milk and 7 grams of white granulated sugar.
I can get fairly near those amounts on the food selection pages but not exactly the right amounts. Even when I use the number of portions on the next page it's still not exactly the right weight.
Is there a way of inputting the exact weight of stuff I've eaten?

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  • Sued0nim
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
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    Yes

    Hang on I will take some screen grabs
  • bobinpeterboro
    bobinpeterboro Posts: 20 Member
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    :)
  • shadow2soul
    shadow2soul Posts: 7,692 Member
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    create your own food entry for it with the serving size in grams. Then from the drop down selection of serving sizes you will get the option of 1 g.
    example:
    Great Value Honey Graham Cracker
    serving size 31 g
    ^So I would create a food entry using this information
    Say I wanted to log 16 g of it
    I'd change the serving size from 31 g to 1 g
    Then with the serving size as 1 g, I'd say I had 16 servings
    It then shows in my diary that I had 16 g of GV Honey Graham Cracker
  • bobinpeterboro
    bobinpeterboro Posts: 20 Member
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    Ahh right, and would that work out the nutrients and calories accordingly as well?
  • Sued0nim
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
    edited October 2015
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    Right

    When you choose your food like Kellogg's Rice crispies, over to the right there is a servings and a drop down menu for the type of quantity

    So originally the quantity was 30g but I can select 1g then enter 45 servings

    Sometimes you get 100g so you'd pick 0.45 servings

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    PS a lot of those entries in the MFP database are wrong so check against the box

  • Sued0nim
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
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    If the drop down doesn't have 100g or 1g choose another option

    Or you can enter it yourself as a new food

    Once you start building up foods you like they are all in your recent or frequent foods so you can pick them from there

    Hope that helps
  • bobinpeterboro
    bobinpeterboro Posts: 20 Member
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    Thanks for the help ladies, I'm off to the food bit now to have a play with entering foods.....


    ....I may be back in a few minutes even more confused. :)
  • bobinpeterboro
    bobinpeterboro Posts: 20 Member
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    Haha, it's easy, :) cheers for the help.
  • LoveIshie
    LoveIshie Posts: 94 Member
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    Bob, please click the following links below.

    https://youtu.be/a6GVSI3PSvA

    https://youtu.be/_6Il4BBBTJc (I am not sure why the guy weighed he banana with the pill on this video. Seems like a lot more trouble lol. You can avoid all of that by simply taking the pill of and just weigh the actual banana you plan to eat. Make sure to lay a plastic rap or bowl on the scale and your scale set to zero before you put the banana on.

    I hope this was helpful.
  • bobinpeterboro
    bobinpeterboro Posts: 20 Member
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    Haha yes, leaving the peel on did seem a bit silly but the videos were helpful lovelshie thanks.
  • LoveIshie
    LoveIshie Posts: 94 Member
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    LOL, you are welcome! Happy to help!
  • yarwell
    yarwell Posts: 10,477 Member
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    shadow2soul wrote: »
    create your own food entry for it with the serving size in grams. Then from the drop down selection of serving sizes you will get the option of 1 g.
    example:
    Great Value Honey Graham Cracker
    serving size 31 g
    ^So I would create a food entry using this information
    Say I wanted to log 16 g of it
    I'd change the serving size from 31 g to 1 g
    Then with the serving size as 1 g, I'd say I had 16 servings
    It then shows in my diary that I had 16 g of GV Honey Graham Cracker

    0.5 of a serving would be near enough ?

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