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I'm too OCD for this scale1
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LunarT from on
02/09/2012
Its not bad if you want to follow a generic diet. I just can't use a scale when it generalizes everything. My OJ has 10mg of sodium and the scale tells me 3mg. Until there is a perfect system where all of the same food items, no matter the brand have the same nutrition facts, I cannot use a scale like this. I'm getting a plain digital scale so I can use each individual N.F.'s for each item. Maybe I'm the problem?...no, we just need a perfect universal system. We need food engineers!1 out of 2 found this review helpful.
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Great use it all the time5
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Stinger from Alabama on
02/08/2012
Had to practice using the total function for accumulating carb counts. Remember to clear the total when done! Very easy to use otherwise. Someone said it wasn't stable when pushing button, these are touch buttons. Just touch them and the take your input. It is quite stable and sturdy. Code book has about everything I've looked for, have printed off a list of commonly use ones. The only one I've ever tried, just diagnosed Type 2 a few months ago, so can't judge against others but can't imagine one better.0 out of 0 found this review helpful.
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portion control is key4
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lissylee from Virginia on
01/25/2012
A lot of my skinny friends say portion control and food logs are key to weigh loss, especially in the beginning. It’s not something I’m planning to do hard core my whole life, because once you get the hang of it, you know things like that a fistful of almonds is around 160 calories, and you don’t have to weigh and measure everything (or so I’m told!)
My new best friend in helping me with this?? This scale~ it instantly adjust your food's nutritional facts to your portion size with this food scale and nutritional calculator in one. A touch of a button shows you how many calories are in food and also tracks the sugar content.
It comes with 3 things: the scale, an instruction booklet, and a food guide with codes to enter in the scale.
* I love that the booklet is laminated because I use it around messy food alot.
*I also love that it fits neatly into a skinny kitchen drawer.
First, you turn on the side button, then place the bowl, cup, etc that will hold the food (if you are using one) on the scale and press ZERO. Not the number 0 but the word ZERO. I was cursing this scale, pushing 0, wondering why it didn’t work, and then I finally saw that darn ZERO button. Duh. You’ll be way smarter than me.Then, you look up the food code in the booklet, enter it on the scale, place the food on the scale, and that's it!
Once I figured out the zero thing, I have zero complaints. Honestly, I think it’s worth every penny of the $50 price tag if it lasts a good long time.
AND it’s entertainment; my kids love to throw random things on there to see what they weigh. :)6 out of 6 found this review helpful.
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Cool scale to keep you on track4
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MakeItandLoveIt from Colorado on
01/25/2012
You know how it's annoying to figure out, "Hmmmmm, okay, 1 serving of chicken is my fist size, but this is probably one and a half fists. So, uh?" Or is this a "small" sized apple or a "medium" sized one? Who knows! Grrrrr. This scale cuts out all that guesswork. It weighs it, calculates it, then tells me what I need to know. It even has a feature to keep a running total of stats for the day. Cool.
The Perfect Portions Scale has about 2,000 food items stored in its memory, but it also allows for an additional 99 food entries. I can add and save unusual foods I may have in my diet and then recall them at any time. Again, cool.
So here's how it works. You look up your food item in the food code book (which is plastic coated and very well organized) and find the code for what you're going to eat. I wanted almonds, which are code 0631. So I entered that code into the scale.
Then I plopped my almonds right on top and watched my info come up instantly. If I want less, I can just take off one almond at a time until I get down to the calories I want. Then I can scoop them off and gobble them up. Easy.
So, even though the top of the scale is glass and really easy to clean, you can't really plop liquid stuff right down on top, like yogurt, for example. So you can place a bowl down first, 'auto tare' the scale (balance it out at zero) by pressing ZERO, and then plug in the number for your item.
Then you add your yogurt in by the scoopful and watch as the nutrition facts change instantly with each scoop. Ooooops, too much yogurt? Just scoop a little back out and put it back in the yogurt container for another day. Perfectly portioned.
Okay, now seriously, how many times have you just "guessed" how much you were eating or what the calculations were? No more of that for me. You know it's hard to count out exactly how many crackers/chips/pretzels from a bag by following the serving size number on a food package. They're always broken or different sizes. I don't have to count anymore or puzzle piece chip bits back together to equal one chip. Or even do the math if I just want to add 10 more calories to my portion.
This scale has earned a permanent spot right on my counter. You could say we're friends now.5 out of 5 found this review helpful.
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Good not great3
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littlebitfunky from VA on
01/25/2012
I have never used a food scale like the Perfect Portions - Food Scale with Nutritional Calculator before. I have weighed out ingredients on an old-fashioned scale once or twice. I have also googled nutritional content of a food item here or there. This little scale Best Buy sent me was handy in that you could do both at the same time.
It is really fascinating to see, for a change, what a proper portion looks like. This scale is easy enough to use; you look up the code that corresponds to the food you're eating, punch in its code and instantly you have all sorts of information at your hands -- calories, fat content, sugar, carbs, protein and more.
I had no problems getting it to work as it should. I would have liked to see the ability to search on the device for my item instead of having to look it up in a separate booklet. Having to keep track of another little paper something is my only complaint about this scale.
While I can't see myself using this forever and a day, I do think this will be a good tool to learn what certain sizes should look like and becoming familiar with the nutritional content of them. I think it will also make a good tool to teach my kids the same things.2 out of 2 found this review helpful.
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Great tool to have in the kitchen4
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Lorieblogs from Austin, TX on
01/25/2012
I have an app on my phone that helps me track the food I eat. I enter the food and the amount, measured by volume, and the app calculates the nutritional information of what I have eaten during each meal. It is handy when trying to watch what you eat, but measuring by volume is not very accurate.
Almost everyone that knows anything about weight loss will suggest you get a food scale. But a scale will require you to calculate the nutritional information on your own. I don't know about you, but I am not usually in the mood to do a little math before I eat breakfast in the morning.
Wouldn't it be nice if there was a scale that would do the math for you at 5am? Well there is! The Perfect Portions - Food Scale with Nutritional Calculator.
The Perfect Portions scale weighs your food like a regular scale, but when you enter the food code for the item you are eating it will calculate the nutritional facts for you.
It will even add up all of the items you use to prepare your breakfast, like oatmeal, milk, and blueberries, and give you the total for all of the items. No need to write down each individual item to keep track. It will tell you the total calories, calories from fat, carbohydrates, protein, fat, saturated fat, fiber, sugar, cholesterol, and sodium in the items that you have weighed.
All of the facts make it handy when you're trying to watch your weight, control your portions, or if you have special health issues that requires you to watch your sodium or sugar intake. But because the Perfect Portions scale is also a scale, giving you measurements in grams and ounces, it is perfect for baking as well.
My kids always love to use new gadgets, so right now I am using the scale to monitor snack time. I can get out a bag of baby carrots and put a bowl on the scale and give them a target for how many grams of fiber they have to eat before they can have the cookie they want to eat after school. I used to just assign them a number of carrots, but the addition of a gadget makes it more fun for them, which means less arguing for me.
In addition to all of the food codes that come pre-programmed into the scale, you can add your own custom food codes for items that you eat on a regular basis. You select a code and enter the nutritional information from the label, and the scale will do all of the calculating for you. With a touch of a button you will know how many calories are on your plate and be able to adjust your portion sizes accordingly.
The scale is amazingly accurate. It gave me the nutritional information for just two blueberries. I ate a lot more than two blueberries, but just wanted to see exactly what the scale would do. It comes in fun colors, too. I have the silver version, but it also comes in black, white, red, and blue. Who doesn't love a little color in their kitchen?
The Perfect Portions - Food Scale with Nutritional Calculator is pretty perfect. Now all they need to do is create an app so I can look up the food codes when my daughter has walked off with my food code book.4 out of 4 found this review helpful.
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Good scale4
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BigMama12 from Texas on
01/24/2012
So here’s the hardest thing about trying to eat healthy. Well, not the hardest thing because that would be all the not eating of the cookies and the chips and the bowls of queso and fresh flour tortillas that are an inch thick, but it’s all relative these days.
My biggest issue has always been all these recipe sites or Weight Watcher guidelines that tell you to eat 4 oz of lunch meat or a 6 oz chicken breast. How am I supposed to know that? Am I some sort of food mathematician? Am I supposed to have some kind of unagi that helps me sense the weight of four slices of ham?
Because I don’t have that.
That’s why I was thrilled to get the Perfect Portions – Food Scale with Nutritional Calculator from Best Buy. It instantly adjusts your food’s nutritional facts to your portion size with its food scale and nutritional calculator in one. A touch of a button shows you how many calories are in food and also tracks the sugar content.
See? It does all the hard work for you. Then all you have to do is enjoy those three delicious and totally filling slices of turkey breast with a side of four carrots and an apple.
Maybe for fun I’ll make a big bowl of queso and put that on it or a cheeseburger from Whataburger. It might cause the thing to blow a fuse, but I wouldn’t really do that because I am committed to healthy eating.
The Perfect Portions Scale has helped me so much because it gives me an accurate count of the calories I’m consuming and the nutritional content of all my meals. For someone like me†who doesn’t like to think about those things or use some kind of old-fashioned weighted scale, it is SOLID GOLD. †If you’re trying to make some healthy lifestyle changes, this scale may be just the thing for you.4 out of 4 found this review helpful.
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I love this scale!5
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bluesky1 from New York on
11/16/2011
For my purposes, this scale is perfect. I wanted to become more aware of portion sizes and have a way to get a better idea of the calories, etc. in the foods I eat.
My favorite features-
* You can program your own foods. While it comes with a book full of food codes, if there's something you eat that isn't in there, you just add it with it's own unique code.
* The zero weight. You can find the weight and nutrition info for a food when you add it on top of a plate or other foods. You just put the plate on the scale, zero it out, and add your next ingredient.
* Of course, the nutritional info. It's all there and adjusts depending on how much you put on the scale.
I haven't had it long, but it has already helped me with my goals. It's easy to use and small enough to keep in a handy spot in the kitchen.9 out of 9 found this review helpful.
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