How do you ensure your calories are accurate?

what she said ^^^^

if it is something you eat all the time enter it as a recipe and you can manually add all the ingredients together and get a count

Use the recipe tool (under the food tab).
This lets you enter each ingredient to make a recipe, then you can tell it how many servings and it will calculate the calories per serving plus the nutritional data based on the individual ingredients you entered.
I find this really handy and I have heaps of recipes in there. The great thing is that it saves the recipes so if I have something like a beef stirfly I can either use it as is, or go back and take out the beef and replace it with chicken.
If you don't have a scale you can enter most veggies by pieces (ie. 1 medium tomato, 2 stalks of celery) and use the package as a guide - if there is 200g in the pack and you used about half of it, then enter 100g.
Don't stress too much about accuracy - everything we enter is as estimate (even if you weight it!), just try to be as close as you can.

It is also a lot easier to log recipes so in the future if you make the same foods you wont have to log everything separately

Yes I look for each individual items, or look in the box or bag where your items is and add a new item. BTW that salads sounds delish!!

I weigh almost everything unless I eat the whole container and the calories are on the package. With fruit and vegetables, I either weigh it or I estimate the size (small apple), etc.

As for the tofu, it's not a brand, i just buy it from a market on the street in korea so i have no idea of it's nutritional value and will just have to go with "generic" firm tofu!

Generally the tofu in Korea has a higher carb/ protein ratio compared to firm tofu back home. I buy my tofu usually from Homeplus (similar to what you'd get from the market) and the ratio is around 2/1. I've used the supermarket nutritional values and created my own food in the database. Look for these: 탄수화물 (carbs), 단백질 (protein) and 지방 (fat). Those are the main ones! Let me know if you need any more help

Seeing as you are in Korea too, how do you log the Korean food you eat? When i make my own food, i will just weight it/log everything individually, but how do you go about logging a kimchi jjigae from a Kim Bap Chon Guk or if you eat galbi/sam gyeop sal with co-workers??? (I'm guessing the answer is "don't eat it, haha!)

The MFP database has things like Kimchi Jjigae (although I'm not sure how accurate they are! I did compare this database to other things on the internet and the numbers seem similar). I don't eat meat, but try to estimate how many grams you're eating (for example your table will order 800g of galbi - how many people eating?). One thing I've noticed since I've started logging my food is the insane amount of sodium in a lot of the sauces (kochujang, ssamjang etc). So even if I go out with a group, only eat the side dishes with ssamjang, I'm likely to go over my sodium for the day!

Last night, i made a tofu salad for dinner. The tofu was marinated in soy sauce and cumin, and I had lettuce leaves, cherry tomatoes, cucumber, raw mushrooms and onions with a balsamic and olive oil dressing. I tried to log it but I couldn’t find anything similar.

And yes, this sounds delicious! Exactly like my dinner, but you've inspired me with the cumin ^^

I would try and enter measurements as accurate-ish as you can... such as:

___cups lettuce
___cups/# of cherry tomatos
___cups chopped cucumber
___cups raw mushrooms

___tsps balsamic vinegar
___tsps olive oil

As for the tofu, try enter the brand or the type of tofu and either in measurements (cups, etc) or in approximate fraction of a package, eg) X brand tofu, 1/4pckg.

Most raw and many packaged ingredients are in the database so you can enter them manually! It takes a little while, but it's accurate!

This xxx