Crab counting
During the summer last year we went round to some friends of ours for a dinner party. Yes, a dinner party – now that I have reached my thirties, I no longer have the desire to frequent sweaty nightclubs of a Saturday night, downing expensive, sticky drinks and being much, much too close to the dripping unwashed masses.
So being unrelenting and incurably middle class, I now spend Saturday nights with friends, supping fine wines and discussing the issues of the day (I say that, but this particular dinner party ended up being somewhat rowdy, with broken glasses and minor chaos – we eventually left our host in the early hours with an uncontrollable bout of booze-induced hiccups).
Anyway, I digress. I bring up the whole dinner-party thing because I noticed on that particular evening that our host had a rather fancy-pants set of scales which gave you the ;
Hello – I found out about these on my DAFNE course. Lloyds chemist also do some for £10. I still find myself working it all out myself, I think I have control issues. Do you find they are accurate?
They seem accurate enough, certainly moreso than guessing!
After an exhaustive searching travail (1g-discerning scales are not freely available in SA if you’re not a member of Weight Watchers or a diamond smuggler), a family friend brought me a plain-pants Salter from the UK. I then have to use my remaining smidgen of high school math or send the measured weights via mobile to LightBulbLand for a serving of crabs.
I love the carb counting scales I got one from Lidl for 8pound a bargain or what!
I dont use it as often as I thought I would still stuck in my old ways with the working out but it is so much better and easier.
Great post by the way.
I don’t need scales, being a crusty old T2, I know that if I eat I’m going to go hyper if I don’t shoot up half a litre or so of NovoRapid so, like Tim, I count carbs as often as I go to church. As I’m an atheist and won’t even enter a church for hatches, matches and dispatches I’ll leave you to draw your own conclusions.
I agree, great post, and I loved the Glossary!
I’m in need of some new scales as the last lot packed and Adam the Pump gets fitted today.
Are you still using these ones @tim?
I’m in need of some new scales as the last lot packed in and Adam the Pump gets fitted today.
Are you still using these ones @tim?
They don’t seem to have the ones I use on the John Lewis website any more; but here they are on Salter’s website: http://www.salterhousewares.com/salter_uk/nutri-weigh-slim-electronic-scale.html
Yes, I still use them and very good they are too.
Excellent. Thanks Tim. I’ve found them for £22 on t’Ebay so that’s that sorted.
And why is your pump called “Adam”?!
Primarily because my son’s school had a ‘Name the Goldfish’ competition and Joe’s suggestion of Adam didn’t win but I thought it was a perfectly good suggestion as a name for anything.
So when I decided ‘it’ needed a name I already had one ready and waiting. What’s yours called?
Ahh – fair enough! Mine’s called Englebert Pumperdinck. Obviously.
@Tim – are those scales actually very good? I have these ones – and frankly they are rubbish. They are in a drawer and have been used probably about twice. If you put a plate on them with stuff to weigh you can’t use the little calculator thingie or see the screen, but the size of the weghying area is so small you can literally only fit on it food as small as the 6 grapes shown in the picture. (far be it from me to actually want to weigh or eat a ‘normal’ size portion of potato for example!)
The calculator thingie is pretty rubbish too – having to text/type in the food type and up/down till you find a food that may or may not resemble what you’re looking for/is on your plate. I find it much easier to just weigh stuff on normal scales and use a normal calculator to do the maths bit…
Having said that (ranted!), being a bit of a tech/gadget junkie I would love to be convinced otherwise if the seemingly newer version that you refer to actually works!
They don’t seem to be too bad – there’s just enough room to balance a plate and see the carb output. Food types are entered through codes – and you quickly learn that 636 is pasta, 243 is rice and so on. I actually find I only bother measuring the really high carb things – rice, pasta, etc. – so there aren’t many codes to learn.