Help weighing mixed meals

DayraX
DayraX Posts: 4 Member
edited November 20 in Health and Weight Loss
So I'm staying at my mother's house for a couple of months. I fend for myself for most of the day, but she makes dinner.

I need help figuring out how to log this. I just bought a digital kitchen scale, but I'm trying to get it right in my mind how to properly track. We have to keep out of the kitchen while she is doing her thing so there's not really a chance for me to weigh each thing added separately so this is what I had thought out in my mind:

Weigh full plate. Eat for example rice. Weigh again. So I know that for example I have eaten 150g of rice.
Eat the next thing, weigh again.
Repeat and then weigh empty plate.
So then I can see how many grams of each thing I've eaten. I feel it's probably not going to be precise but it seems better than nothing?

It sucks eating each thing separately since it's better to eat the variety but if this is how it's gotta be done then I will.
It's the only way I can think, and I wanted to check in and see if this would be a right way of doing it, or any suggestions?

I know she's gonna ask me wtf I'm doing with a scale at the dinner table lol

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  • amietest
    amietest Posts: 57 Member
    Ask her to let you dish your own plate, weigh it before putting it on the plate in the kitchen. Otherwise, if she insists on dishing it, take the plate to the kitchen and weigh everything and then go back out and eat it.
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,325 Member
    And if for some reason you don't eat all of one or more items, put the partially full plate back on the scale after the meal.

    Zero, scrape residue of one item into trash or storage container, put plate back on scale. Read & note the negative weight (it's the amount you didn't eat).

    Zero, scrape off residue of 2nd item, reweigh & note negative, etc.

    Subtract the residue weights from the original served weights to get net eaten.
  • Rebecca0224
    Rebecca0224 Posts: 810 Member
    CyberTone wrote: »
    Sandcastles61 wrote: »
    Weigh the plate then reset to zero (tare button)... Add first food, note weight, hit the tare button to reset to zero.... Add next food item, note weight, hit tare.... Etc, etc until all your foods have been added to your plate, eat and enjoy :)

    I do it this way also. Tip: Place a small bowl on the scale first, then place the plate on top of that, then tare - that will raise the plate high enough to be able to see the display.

    It took me longer than I will admit to thinking of the bowl thing
  • DayraX
    DayraX Posts: 4 Member
    Surprisingly she is letting me weigh everything, before she serves it. I didn't expect that but I'm happy.

    The bowl tip is great! Can easily see the numbers with it
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