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tony2545
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What items do you have in your kitchen that are essential to keeping you accountable for preparing & tracking your nutrition? Mine are a good set of knives, scale, storage containers, Instant Pot, & a good non stick pan.
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A scale. That's the only thing that keeps you accountable as everything else is just guesswork.
With regards to my person kitchen must-haves: An electric kettle as my main beverage is tea. Good knifes. An a good mortar and pestle. I move often and never know how big my next kitchen will be. Thus I keep the amount of kitchen stuff low. I don't have a kitchen machine or other big electronics stuff. I can do everything in mortar and pestle though, even if it takes a bit longer. Plus grinding herbs with such a thing gives so much better tastes than any automatic grinder.5 -
Definitely a SCALE!!! When I guess, I never get it right!!! lol. My 4 ounces of meat seem to be 2 ounces when I do it without weighing it. I suck at guessing.2
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Utilizing the freezer is important too because sometimes I am the only one eating a recipe i make and i can divide it up and freeze some. Also, I like to keep my low calorie bread in the freezer because sometimes it takes me a while to eat the loaf.2
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#1 - a scale - without it you are fooling yourself about how much you eat2
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What items do you have in your kitchen that are essential to keeping you accountable for preparing & tracking your nutrition? Mine are a good set of knives, scale, storage containers, Instant Pot, & a good non stick pan.
Pretty much the same. I also love my blender and my mini food processor. I actually lost well before I started using an instant pot, though, and neither the blender nor the food processor were essential. The storage containers were important to me for bringing lunches to work and just generally being able to prepare food ahead, which made things a lot easier. Knifes, well, makes cooking a lot easier, especially if one is chopping lots of veg, and of course the scale.1 -
Scale. I do love my instant pot though.2
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Scale
Ninja Foodi ( combo air fryer/instant pot/crockpot/dehydrator)
A sharp knife
Silicon spoon/scraper
Oxo hand-crank bearer
A wooden spoon my then 6 year old daughter got me for Christmas from the dollar store twenty five year ago, and which has proven fabulously useful.1 -
Scale
Ninja Foodi Grill and Ninja Foodi
Chest Freezer
Smart kitchen appliances
Good set of knives and handheld gadgets1 -
Everything you listed plus a sheet pan and air fryer.1
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Instant read meat thermometer has made my cooking much more consistent. Costs about $10 and requires as much room to store a an extra fork.1
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In addition to some of the above items, I’ll add a Poached egg pan and spiralizer1
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1 scale (which I hate. I really need to get a new one.)
1 measuring cup for liquids.
1 espresso coffee machine so I spend less money on coffee and can actually relatively accurately tell how many calories are in my lattes (relatively accurately because the coffee ground packages dont have calorie info on them).
Also normal cooking utensils.
Enjoyable, but not truly needed:
1 ice cream machine (you can make healthy-ish stuff yourself).
1 Slow Cooker.0 -
What items do you have in your kitchen that are essential to keeping you accountable for preparing & tracking your nutrition?
What's ESSENTIAL for food prep and nutrition tracking?
Nothing more than a few knives, some basic cooking utentsils, a basic set of pots and pans for food prep plus a food scale ad MFP for nutrition tracking.
Everything else is extra and I've got a lot of extras; far too many to list here.1 -
For cutting down on fat I find the new generation non stick pans indispensible. These are ceramic coated or stone coated, not teflon. I can cook pancakes and eggs without any added fat to the pan.2
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What items do you have in your kitchen that are essential to keeping you accountable for preparing & tracking your nutrition?
What's ESSENTIAL for food prep and nutrition tracking?
Nothing more than a few knives, some basic cooking utentsils, a basic set of pots and pans for food prep plus a food scale ad MFP for nutrition tracking.
Everything else is extra and I've got a lot of extras; far too many to list here.
Ditto, lol
And don't even get me started on how many spices I have.0 -
Instant read meat thermometer has made my cooking much more consistent. Costs about $10 and requires as much room to store a an extra fork.
Yes, I used to always overcook chicken breast "to be safe" and love not having to do that anymore. And I've learned I like thighs cooked more than the standard 175 degrees.
I also realized I like salmon and tuna cooked to around 125 degrees. If I'm ordering it from a restaurant I'll say "medium rare" and that's been very helpful.0 -
kshama2001 wrote: »What items do you have in your kitchen that are essential to keeping you accountable for preparing & tracking your nutrition?
What's ESSENTIAL for food prep and nutrition tracking?
Nothing more than a few knives, some basic cooking utentsils, a basic set of pots and pans for food prep plus a food scale ad MFP for nutrition tracking.
Everything else is extra and I've got a lot of extras; far too many to list here.
Ditto, lol
And don't even get me started on how many spices I have.
Same lol And the varieties of hot sauce I own.1 -
kshama2001 wrote: »What items do you have in your kitchen that are essential to keeping you accountable for preparing & tracking your nutrition?
What's ESSENTIAL for food prep and nutrition tracking?
Nothing more than a few knives, some basic cooking utentsils, a basic set of pots and pans for food prep plus a food scale ad MFP for nutrition tracking.
Everything else is extra and I've got a lot of extras; far too many to list here.
Ditto, lol
And don't even get me started on how many spices I have.
Yes, but spices aren't kitchentools. One never has enough spices. reminds me that I need to buy new galangal and assafoetida.2 -
Scale & a small dry erase board.0
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