Biggest change in your kitchen since starting MFP?

The biggest change is that we are using it more! We used to eat out almost 5 times a week, and now we only eat out twice per month. We also purchased a Breville Juice Fountain after watching the documentary Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead and we love it! It gets used every single day.

I've been through 3 kitchen weight scales to say the least haha

A small food scale - mostly for measuring dense food like rice and pasta and fish. For most products I can go by the package data and measure by cups and tablespoons.

Other than that the changes are more subtle, 90% less high sugar yogurt, no milk chocolate, more bags of precut salad greens.

My kitchen scale cries. And it eats batteries, or I just use it a lot one or the other.

Fewer processed "meat replacements"

kitchen scale

Usually little to no cheese

New blender

More raw fruits and veggies that actually get eaten.

Not really much. I already have eaten good for years. I just learned to not



The biggest changes I've made:
1. No Splenda (I use Stevia instead from time to time). No Diet Soda, not that we did it much anyway.
2. I switched from rice milk (higher carb) to coconut milk (low carb).
3. Learned to just eat low carb and not combine even brown rice with my higher fat meals; so food combining. If I have an avocado I don't eat carbs with it, only protein/veggies/fats with it.
4. Corn is the big one; reduced or eat practically no corn products (no more tortillas even if they are organic, no more corn with meals, no more corn tortillas with taco salads, etc).
5. Eating MORE calories, by logging I realized some days I was eating 850, 900 calories, because I snacked on small things throughout the day.
6. Stopped coffee/or anything that impedes my digestion (although I started a little again, I need to quit it again). I would drink it all day long, with rice milk in it, splenda, etc. Overkill on that.
7.Watch the fruit portions.
8. I actually have splurge days, splurge meals and desserts (when before I deprived a lot!).


I already did ground turkey instead of higher fat meat, already brown rice instead of white and quinoa. Already oatmeal and stuff for breakfast. Already gluten and dairy-free. Already at kind of on the lower-carb side or at least better-choice carbs. Already no white/starch stuff like potatoes (although I do love to make potato skins). Already watch my portions, eat good and watch my dessert intake.

Recently I stopped eating raw almond butter and almonds- they were stopping the iodine (goitrogen) from getting to my thyroid, which slows wt. loss. So I notice that's been helping, switched to pecans, cashews and Brazil nuts instead (and sunflower seed butter).

The biggest change in my kitchen is that two of us can fit in it now LOL - seriously, my kitchen is sooooo tiny if one person wanted to open a cupboard the other person had to leave the room.

I only buy one loaf of wholemeal bread now, before it would be at least 3 white loaves, and of that one wholemeal loaf I might eat just 2 slices over the week, hubby has the rest for his work lunches.

Mine is the constant use of measuring cups/spoons. I am on a 24/7 rotation of using and washing my measuring tools!

^ & use of kitchen scale... And another biggest change is not in the kitchen but the shopping trolley

I've been 15 months on MFP and I'm STILL weighing everything I eat even though I'm at my goal weight! I never used to own scales before. I even took them away on holiday with me!
I guess I just like knowing exactly how much I'm eating... or I'm completely nuts :bigsmile:

I basically have no need for a pantry.

Now I live in the kitchen. I was there a lot before but I'm in there constantly now. We are going out to eat less (not that we were going a lot before but maybe once a week now as opposed to 3x a week). I now weigh or measure the ingredients that go into my food instead of just making it from scratch so that folks KNOW what's in a portion. The digital scale is used A LOT! Cereal is getting eaten by the family in much less quantity and less frequently. Veggies and fruits are bought more frequently. Convenience foods are getting bought less. Fritos and tortilla chips only get bought if they are being taken to the lampworking meeting where a dozen people and not just one is going to be eating them. Last time we just left the bag there so as not to be a temptation to anyone here. Someone else said they would take the half bag to another meeting the next day. LOL