EatSmart Precision Pro Kitchen Scale

Have you ever come across a recipe that had the amount of an ingredient listed in grams and wondered how to measure it? Are you counting calories as part of a weight loss program and want to be precise about your serving sizes? Then you need the easy to use EatSmart™ Precision Pro Kitchen Scale! I know, I sound like an infomercial, but this scale really does rock.

At $25.00, the EatSmart Precision Pro Kitchen Scale is a good value. It holds up to eleven pounds or five kilograms, and is accurate to +/- 1 gram. My favorite feature is the “Tare” feature, which means a button that lets you zero out the scale after you’ve put weight on it. Say you want to weigh something like cereal or blueberries. Put a bowl on the scale, press the Tare button, then add the food. The display will show you the weight of just the food in grams.

The scale also comes with a guidebook to calorie counting that consists of a list of common foods and their Calorie Factor, meaning how many calories are in one gram of that food. So, let’s say you weigh dry roasted almonds and get a weight of 15. The calorie factor in the guidebook is 5.97, so your portion of almonds is 15 x 5.97 = 89.55 calories. There are also blank lines in the back of the book to put in foods you regularly eat that aren’t listed. The guidebook explains it all really well.

Whether you want to be precise in your flour measurement for bread or want to find out how many potato chips are really in a serving, a good food scale is a must-have. My old twist-a-dial food scale is in the garage sale box and my EatSmart Precision Pro Kitchen Scale has taken it’s place! Thank you so much to EatSmart for sending me the scale to review. I love it!

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