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I use a Primo Escali scale. I've had it for 5 or 6 years now (purchased it for following European recipes, and have repurposed it for food tracking more recently). It's held up great, no fuss, and the batteries last a really long time. I do think I paid a lot less than the $30 it is currently listed for on Amazon though.

Don't know anything about a Bullet Journal. A lot of people here use MyFitnessPal - personally, I prefer SparkPeople (lets you set a calorie range rather than a single daily target, easy to save favorite foods and groups of foods, easy to enter your own recipes, syncs with Fitbit, but has some social media and advertising aspects integrated with it that can be off-putting).

My boyfriend is on his own for food making choices, so I'm no help to you there! lol

And as for food containers, I prefer glass to plastic for its ability to be microwaved without staining or leaching. Wide mouth 2 cup mason jars work really well for soups/stews/chili, and since they are designed to be airtight they don't leak at all. And they are cheap! You do have to remove the lid to microwave, though.

For larger meals (salads, meat and veggie leftovers, etc) Pyrex and Rubbermaid sell glass containers with plastic lids in a wide variety of sizes and shapes. They're a bit more expensive than the canning jars but glass holds up well so it's worth the investment, IMHO.

Good luck!

I have http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00BZE3WW8/ref=s9_zgift_hd_bw_bjuwvb_g79_i3?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=merchandised-search-7&pf_rd_r=1QNDJ6Z9GXK057JZH79A&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=12a235c6-64d9-5d2b-8c82-5ddfecd19eb6&pf_rd_i=678508011

I like that it is flat glass and easy to clean, plus large enough I can see the number when I have a plate on it, also doesn't shut off for a few minutes when I'm in the middle of weighing things out like my last one.

MPF to track food and exercise, but try and schedule workouts in my daytimer.

I don't calorie track for my husband, but he usually eats what I make plus an extra carb. I'll make mashed potatoes, or rice for him, while I have cauliflower or broccoli slaw.

I love tupperware for being truly leak proof, but it's pricey and I still like to switch to a glass container/plate before microwaving.

1. I have a crappy mechanical food scale and it's a nightmare. Would 100% recommend getting an electronic one. Salter are good.
   
   
2. I'd never heard of a bullet journal. It doesn't look like it would be great for tracking food - myfitnesspal is your friend - but I'm seriously considering starting one for day-to-day stuff! Might help knock my procrastination on the head...
   
   
3. My SO is bulking and eating 3000 cals a day, I'm eating 1500. He just eats twice as many meals as I do. So I'll go round on an evening, we'll eat dinner together, and then an hour later he'll have something else and I won't. Then the next morning he has an early breakfast, then a second breakfast when I have mine. So perhaps your SO could just eat an extra 300cal meal/a couple of 150cal snacks to make up the difference?
   
   
4. My SO uses these and gets on really well. I just have a few cheap lunch boxes! Stuff like this and this only mostly bought from pound shops. Does the job.

I have this food scale, though I use it for soap making and not food - it's SUPER accurate.

I use MFP like everyone else to track.

As far as husband and I go, we eat separate breakfasts (we leave the house at different times) except on the weekends, when I cook us both an equal calorie meal. We eat separate lunches (even on the weekends - I usually have a shake or something, he eats eggs/rice/veggies). And then I cook us dinner (but he usually gets a larger portion than me). If he needs more calories or is more hungry, he snacks. I don't unless I also have extra calories. We snack on different food (ex: I'll eat an apple and some peanut butter. He'll eat rice cakes).

For containers, I highly recommend something like this. I LOVE using it, especially to portion a large restaurant meal or something, and have leftovers the next day. If you don't wanna order on Amazon, you can definitely buy these at Home Goods and Marshalls.

1. http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B004164SRA/ref=mp_s_a_1_fkmr2_1?qid=1462402273&sr=8-1-fkmr2&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_FMwebp_QL65&keywords=orzo+food+scale
   
   I use this one and it's great. It has a tare function so you can measure a lot of things on one plate/bowl by just taring then adding the new food item. Calorie counting is the key to a lot of people's weight loss, and it's nearly impossible to accurately count calories without a food scale.
   
   
2. I track my calories using myfitnesspal. I don't eat back my exercise calories nor do I track them.
   
   
3. My SO and I tend to cook for ourselves. But myfitnesspal has a recipe category and you can determine the number of calories per serving (I usually weigh all the ingredients raw then weigh the total amount after everything has been cooked, and divide by ounces for # of servings - sounds complicated but it's easy with a food scale). Using this method it would be really easy to know how many cals per ounce a meal is,so you would know how many extra servings to give your SO to account for the TDEE difference.

1. [I have this one.] (http://www.amazon.com/Baflan-Digital-Multifunction-Stainless-Kitchen/dp/B013TNS1JQ/ref=zg_bs_678508011_44) It works okay, but the battery seems to die very frequently.
   
2. My boyfriend and I have a 600 calorie difference in our goals. We will generally have the same entree and different sides. For example, when we make curry I'll eat mine over veggies while he'll eat his over rice and have a pita on the side. I also skip the booze and dessert he'll have with dinner.