Reddit reviews AccuWeight 201 Digital Multifunction Meat Food Scale with LCD Display for Baking Kitchen Cooking, 11lb Capacity by 0.1oz, Tempered Glass

I have this food scale. It's on sale right now for $9 on Amazon. I love it, I've found it to be very accurate.
I honestly would say it has made my food anxiety both better and worse. Like I know for a fact I'm not underestimating what I'm eating which helps me. But also I now weigh literally everything I eat, including slices of bread or rice cakes or whatever else.

For small snacks that are around 100 calories I eat the following:

• Skinny pop 100 calorie popcorn, I find these in my regular grocery store but I you can also find them at Costco or online
  
• medium banana (around 100 calories but you have to weigh it to be sure)
  
• light Greek yogurt (many brands are around 100 calories but check the labels carefully because many are more than that too)
  
• light cottage cheese
  
• tuna pouch with 1 tablespoon of tartar sauce mixed in (most pouches are smaller than the cans and around 70 calories, I buy the Kraft tartar sauce which is 30 cal per tablespoon). The flavored tuna in a pouch is really good too, especially the buffalo flavor and lemon pepper flavor. When I buy the flavored pouches I eat them plain instead of mixing with tartar sauce.
  
• 1 granny smith apple (like the banana, you should weigh it to be sure, but an average size apple is usually around 100 calories).
  
  I weigh everything with a kitchen scale. When I'm making a recipe from scratch I weigh all my ingredients and add it all up to get the total weight and the total calories. Then just divide the calorie total by the weight total in grams and that number is the calories per gram. Then I weigh out my serving in grams and multiply that by the calories per gram number and you will get the total calories per serving. It may sound like a lot of math but it's really quite simple and quick once you get used to it.
  
  I bought this scale from Amazon for $10 and I've been very happy with it.

Here's my starter kit:

• Slow cooker: https://www.amazon.com/Crock-Pot-SCCPVP600-S-6-Quart-Smart-Pot-Stainless/dp/B004ZUW52W/ref=sr_1_1?s=kitchen&ie=UTF8&qid=1495997790&sr=1-1-spons&keywords=slow+cooker&psc=1
  
• Rice cooker: https://www.amazon.com/Aroma-Housewares-ARC-914SBD-Cool-Touch-Stainless/dp/B007WQ9YNO/ref=sr_1_4?s=home-garden&ie=UTF8&qid=1495997817&sr=1-4&keywords=rice+cooker
  
• Containers: https://www.amazon.com/Fitpacker-Containers-BPA-Free-Storage-Portion/dp/B00VWJHFTM/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1495997867&sr=8-2&keywords=fitpacker
  
• Food scale: https://www.amazon.com/Accuweight-Multifunction-Scale-Cooking-Capacity/dp/B013WU0CZW/ref=sr_1_2?s=grocery&ie=UTF8&qid=1495997980&sr=1-2-spons&keywords=food+scale&psc=1
  
  Today, I put a bunch of chicken breast in the slow cooker with salt, pepper, and a jar of pesto, and made quinoa in the rice cooker with salt, pepper, chicken bouillon, cumin, and turmeric.

The USDA site has calories per gram of pretty well anything you want to look up.

For example, Avocados, raw, all commercial varieties = 160 calories per 100g.

For a food scale, I have this one that's $10 and it's fine.

> there's no way to hide kitchen scales

Do you have an analog one? Digital ones like the one I own have a much lower profile. They'll fit into a drawer or something.

To be honest I'm not sure what cool features you'd expect to find in a food scale?

To me the basic requirement is that I can switch units (which I think every single one offers anyway). I have this one.

I think some devices are better off left simple without any extra 'techy' things.

This is the scale I have: https://www.amazon.com/AccuWeight-scale-Multifunction-Capacity-Tempered/dp/B013WU0CZW/

It's 8.7" long, 6.6" wide, and 0.8" high. It's smaller than most books. I can't imagine any living situation where someone could not find space for something the size of a small book.

I'm hearing a lot of "woe is me" here and I get that you have many debilitating physical and psychological issues, but you have to want to help yourself. All of us can give you all the advice in the world, but it's up to you to say "Enough with the excuses, I want to do this and I can do this."

Amazon link

It was $12, now I can have nachos guilt free. The best investment I've made in this journey.

I've been doing this for 4-5 days and I've already seen numbers on the scale that I haven't seen in awhile. It's a lot better to measure by gram than by volume. A cup of rice won't be the same as another cup of rice. It depends on how you pack it in, if it's wet or not, etc.

I got this scale: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B013WU0CZW/ref=yo_ii_img?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I bought a https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B013WU0CZW/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 . It's accurate and repeatable. Though I noticed 2-3g deviation on a point load (1kg) when moved from centre. I can't testify to its usefulness in a kitchen. I use it for weighing refillable cylinders so I'm typically looking at 1lb - 3lb and only care about a 10g accuracy.

A quick test: 1 us quarter weighs at 6g, 2 us quarters weight at 12g and is repeatable.

I bought this one for 10.99, works great: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B013WU0CZW/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o07_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Start weighing your food.

Damn. My friend just bought 200 labels, that will probably will never get used, but it was only 8.99 with amazon prime free shipping. Also got this scale only $10.

And ordered some bubble mailers as well off amazon. I love their prime 2 day shipping.

I don't think this will really pan out. My friend is selling this stuff at basically a loss, just to build his seller rep and thinks he will expand. But I think the mkt. for vape stuff is just way to saturated/competitive.

Damn Since '99, can I ask what are some of the things you sell? (If you dont mind answering, if not its cool).

I'm trying to convince him to find something else to sell that might do better.

I just printed out my first label through ebay on regular paper, I can't believe I wasted time at the post office yesterday and paid extra for priority when I could have done it this easily.

So it just needs to be taped to the bubble mailer and its good to go? There was an instruction saying not to tape over the barcode? Any particular way I should tape it?

thanks

I use this scale. Works great. $14

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B013WU0CZW

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B013WU0CZW/ref=cm_sw_r_other_apa_ciLAzb2NBK4D9

I got a similar scale to this one, and used the myfitnesspal app.