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Originally Posted by Lali S  @rcpa
I love that it has a bar code scanner. I think that is very useful. However, how often do you use it? Every time you go to the grocery store? Or you like it and think it is helpful, but don't use it often ? | I've only been using it for about a month, but I use it every day. I tend to eat prepackaged microwave food for lunch, so when I pack my lunch in the morning, I scan the entree package, then my yogurt cup, then my fruit cup. My breakfast is the same everyday, so I pick it out of the recently used list. If I get a snack at work, I scan the packaging.
Dinners that you make yourself are a little tougher, but you can create "recipes" where you scan the packaging of each of the ingredients or search for them if it's something like eggs or pork. You enter how many servings of each ingredients you are using and how many servings the finished dish will make and it calculates the final calories per serving. Then the next time you make the same meal, you can pick it from your recipe list. It takes a little time to do it, but there's usually time while you are waiting for things to cook. And since we usually repeat meals month after month, you only have to do it once the first time you cook that meal.
The list of food it has is crowd sourced, so people are entering the information if the come across something not in the library. Restaurant meals are also in the library. I had "Rattlesnake Pasta" at Pizzeria Uno's a couple of weeks ago and when I searched for "Rattlesnake Pasta", the Pizzeria Uno's version was there for me to choose.
The only exercising I do is on an elliptical and I use the calorie number provided by the elliptical machine when I log my exercising.
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