need help with gram measurements

[sheilaspellman]

does anyone no a tool or something for measuring grams im so confused ...also if for example if you make homemade chilli how do u figure out the calories and how do you enter it on the fitbit

[SunsetRunner]

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@sheilaspellman wrote:

does anyone no a tool or something for measuring grams im so confused ...also if for example if you make homemade chilli how do u figure out the calories and how do you enter it on the fitbit

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Here is a conversion website: http://www.metric-conversions.org/converter.htm

For home recepies, you may want to go here: http://calorielab.com/index.html

and get the generic foods in your recipie and add it up (it would only be once).

[Dominique]

An electronic kitchen scale should do the job. The metric system is really easy 😉

[carl669]

most food scales will let you measure in either grams or ounces and can be bought for around $20.  just google 'food scale' and it should pull up a multitude of choices.

[Heybales]

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@sheilaspellman wrote:

does anyone no a tool or something for measuring grams im so confused ...also if for example if you make homemade chilli how do u figure out the calories and how do you enter it on the fitbit

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Homemade chili, or anything really.

First, weigh the container it's going to finish in. This may be too heavy for kitchen scale, so hopefully a digital body scale with decent accuracy. Either change to KG, or convert the lbs to grams.

While making the dish however you do.

Measure or weigh out the normal stuff, but if measuring per cup or spoon, weigh it too.

Note the item and weight - you can do the math later while it's cooking.

Get all your stuff in to container and start cooking.

Now to your math, hopefully you have a recipe builder like on MyFitnessPal or such, though paper is possible.

Divide your weight in grams used for each item by the serving size grams. I know some bean cans use volume though, so use weight on can if you used the whole thing.

Not sure if you are good with math or not, but the servings you used must be multiplied by the calories and macros.

So if you used 100 g, serving size was 40 g, then you used 100 / 40 = 2.5 servings worth.

2.5 x 140 calories say = 350 calories used.

So now you have a calorie count, and macro count, of everything that went in the pot.

Weight of what went in doesn't matter, since water will cook out, or maybe was added, ect.

So divide the total calories by how many servings you want it to be, or how many servings gives you the calories you want. Maybe you want 300, maybe 400, ect per serving.

When it's done cooking, weigh the container and food now.

Subtract out the weight of the container you already got.

Now you know the weight of the food. Divide by however many servings you decided you wanted.

Now you know how many grams to serve yourself for a serving of say 300 calories.

Don't forgot the low sodium Fritos!