Logging a Taste

Saezimmerman
Saezimmerman Posts: 93 Member
edited November 2024 in Food and Nutrition
My family and I all have this habit of sharing or tasting each other's food at resturants. I try not to get too picky, but when it's a high calorie type item, I do try to log it for the sake of being honest with myself.

I would love to hear your suggestions for logging things like a "bite" of cheesecake.

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  • maryjay51
    maryjay51 Posts: 742
    just for the heck of it , log in every taste and bite you eat in a day and add it up.. amazing numbers there ..wake up call too. i love tasting food when i cook.its a bad habit of mine that i work hard at breaking.
  • Captain_Tightpants
    Captain_Tightpants Posts: 2,215 Member
    Depends what it is... a bite of a fruit or veggie, I probably wouldn't bother logging it. A taste of a donut or something naughty... heck yeah, that could whack you with 50 cals.
  • jcpmoore
    jcpmoore Posts: 796 Member
    When you're talking something like restaurant cheesecake, I'd truly estimate the portion of it. Was it 1/5th of the total slice? 1/8th? The log it as that fraction of a serving of the size of slice it came from. Does that make sense?
  • LemonSocks
    LemonSocks Posts: 238 Member
    I will always try my boyfriend's food and he will always try mine. I don't log it unless it's dessert (and that's usually because I don't get my own dessert but eat 1/4 of his). For the actual meal I don't log it because when we eat out (which isn't that often any more), the calories in our meals won't be that different. So the extra calories I might eat from his meal will generally equate the calories he took from my meal.

    As for dessert, if I didn't eat 1/4 of it, I'd still try and estimate how much of it I had tried because I haven't had any calories 'taken away'.
  • marbit
    marbit Posts: 108
    I had a taste of cheesesteak yesterday because I knew I was under my calorie limit for the day. Little did I know that one relatively small bite of that delicious sandwich was like eating a half serving of Kashi crunch!
  • dargytaylor
    dargytaylor Posts: 840 Member
    BLT's

    Bites
    Licks
    Tastes

    I am guilty!!
  • therealangd
    therealangd Posts: 1,861 Member
    Nah. I don't log samples. I don't eat enough of them to worry about it.

    ETA: I didn't get fat by eating samples.
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