Just got my scale!

Cintirich wrote: »

Hi gang,

I've been at this for almost two weeks now and just got my scale today. Super psyched! Two quick questions:

1. When adding milk to cereal, do I weigh the milk or use a measuring cup? Is there a preferred method for some or all liquids? What about really small amounts like adding lemon juice to salmon?

2. I eat a lot of chicken breast. I bulk cook 5-6 breasts by seasoning with salt and pepper and sauteing in some olive oil, then I bake it to finish it off. What's the best way to account for the salt and oil? I've been adding 3 line items (chicken, salt, olive oil) every time I eat some, but I'm sure there's an easier way.

Eight pounds down and about 60 to go. I'm sure this will help! Thanks in advance!

Rich

Great that you are all psyched, ready and roarin to go!
1. weigh your cereal, measure your milk in a liquid measuring cup (the kind that is clear and has measurement marks on it. You can put your cereal bowl on the scale, tare it to zero and put in your cereal to the weight you want to have. There is a general measurement in the database for the juice of one lemon ... I don't know what others might say, but for me ... that's good enough. However if you want to, you can squeeze it into a measuring cup and go from there.
2. Two ways to go on the chicken. You can build a recipe around it or you can save the meal and and name it. For either one, you will have to be pretty exact on the amounts you used of each ingredient.

Sounds like you are doing great! Congratulations.

Edited to add ... Some scales have a liquid ounce measurement, mine doesn't ... thus I measure my liquids because I'm unclear on the weights of liquids.

The save the meal is a 'Quick Tools' drop down at the Add Food line of your food log ... I use this a lot, but save the chicken and ingredients first, then add the rest of the stuff for your meal because when you save a meal, it saves everything you logged for it. It will be stored in the "Meals" category to select from when you add meals.

The recipe builder is a link from lower-line menut bar ... (Food Diary, Database, My Foods, My Meals, Recipes, Settings) ... When you go to Recipes, there are two links, one for Imort and one for 'Enter New Recipe" ... that's the one I use.

Cintirich wrote: »

Excellent, thanks!

I did just notice that I can select mL's as a unit of measurement for milk and my scale offers mL's as units. I assume there's nothing wrong with weighing it and not having to wash a measuring cup? If not, please let me know. Thanks again for the support, Nikion!

If that's the case, just double check to make sure the measurements line up. So if a cup is supposed to be 100 mL, do both and make sure the scale is accurate. I won't lie though, I've measured liquids on the scale out of pure laziness. Haha.