Trouble with cooking

godfreyenglish
godfreyenglish Posts: 3 Member
edited December 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
Are you guys having trouble with tracking the food if someone else cooks most of the time too?

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  • kommodevaran
    kommodevaran Posts: 17,889 Member
    If you can't control what's in the food, use the "plate model" - 1/2 vegetables, 1/4 protein, 1/4 starch.
  • tulips_and_tea
    tulips_and_tea Posts: 5,814 Member
    That would be tough because you couldn't really count calories accurately.

    Can you cook for yourself sometimes? Or assist with the cooking? I'm unclear as to the circumstances so if you give us more details then we can offer better suggestions and alternatives.
  • nowine4me
    nowine4me Posts: 3,985 Member
    It annoys my husband, but after he cooks and plates a nice dinner, I take everything off the plate to weigh it on the food scale. I while I don't know every ingredient that went in, I can at least track the portions correctly.
  • RobD520
    RobD520 Posts: 420 Member
    My wife and I are both counting, so I do the weighing for both of us whomever cooks. Before then I would plate my own food so I could measure appropriately.

    It's still can sometimes be challenging in that I don't always know the exact recipe when I don't cook. But I have always been lucky that estimating always worked for me even when I didn't have a scale; because I tend to estimate slightly under the portion size/calories.
  • Need2Exerc1se
    Need2Exerc1se Posts: 13,575 Member
    I had trouble with tracking and I do most of the cooking. Having to weigh and measure every ingredient sucked all the joy out of cooking for me.
  • abatonfan
    abatonfan Posts: 1,120 Member
    Worst comes to worst, I compliment them and ask for the recipe. That way, I can quickly import the recipe into MFP and get a decent guesstimate.
  • godfreyenglish
    godfreyenglish Posts: 3 Member
    I see well my background is from the Caribbean so the spices are always the same for flavor mostly,but it's when you're not doing the cooking and the chicken is bite size pieces or even sometimes a stew that you can't identify accurately on mfp,but I guess cooking sometimes will have to do..
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