How long to try the same thing?

rabbitjb wrote: »

paulje03 wrote: »

Example above. Note that the serving is listed as grams and cups. I entered it into my diary as cups, but measured by weight.

I'm an accountant. I work with numbers. I converted units. If you don't believe me, I don't care--I'm not here to argue whether I weighed my food or not.

I seem to have the issue under control now, anyway but thanks for all the input

Did I say I don't believe you?

I asked why you would log in cups if you weighed it as it seems like a 2 step approach to me

Wowsa

I'm a little jealous of you that you've never had to use a database entry that only had cups listed, and you had to read the label's conversion of cup to g or oz and then pulled out a calculator to enter the right amount of 'cups' on the diary lol

rabbitjb wrote: »

Protranser wrote: »

rabbitjb wrote: »

paulje03 wrote: »

Example above. Note that the serving is listed as grams and cups. I entered it into my diary as cups, but measured by weight.

I'm an accountant. I work with numbers. I converted units. If you don't believe me, I don't care--I'm not here to argue whether I weighed my food or not.

I seem to have the issue under control now, anyway but thanks for all the input

Did I say I don't believe you?

I asked why you would log in cups if you weighed it as it seems like a 2 step approach to me

Wowsa

I'm a little jealous of you that you've never had to use a database entry that only had cups listed, and you had to read the label's conversion of cup to g or oz and then pulled out a calculator to enter the right amount of 'cups' on the diary lol

I'm British - cups make no sense to me - we even bake in grams (or ounces)

I've never chosen a cup entry - there's always one with grams somewhere or I enter my own food if it doesn't exist in the format I want in grams or scan the barcode or build a recipe

That makes sense. As myself and others have stated in the thread, we just do the math and enter the portion of cups based on the decimal. It's rare that I have to do that, but for me it's easier than searching until I find grams. My career is in Mathematics so it's pretty much ingrained in me to just find the ratio and enter it if something isn't in grams, but I do prefer complete entries with gram measurements and when I add entries I use grams. However, you were just trying to help the OP and they got a bit harsh. @rabbitjb is constantly trying to help people here and frequently drops words of wisdom, OP; she wasn't calling you a liar. We all just want to help.