A couple of questions about calorie counting

[FlyingBuddha]

I’ve started it today.

My questions are:

1. How do you log things that spread? Other things I can weigh out, but don’t understand about butter, soft cheese, peanut butter etc?
2. How do I log anything I eat out that doesn’t have the calories included?

I put the butter tub on the scale and set it to 0. Then I take out what I want and the scale will show eg -12g, so I log 12g.

if the menu doesn’t show the calories, I try and log something similar. Eg I had a jacket with chilli at a local cafe, but logged it as a jacket with chilli from Wetherspoons. Or I would log each thing individually to “make” the meal. It’s all guess work when eating out if they don’t show the calories.

I don’t calorie count but you could do it at least 2 ways that I can think of -
either weight out eg 10g mayonnaise and use what’s there or weigh your slice of bread, spread on your butter and weigh it again to track how much you used.

for things when you eat out you’d just have to do best guess really.

As @londongirl12said, for jam/butter type things put on the scale, take our your portion and reweigh. The negative number is how much you have on your plate. Works for salad dressing, honey, milk, loads of things!

I use nutracheck which contains calories for a lot of UK restaurants but if the specific restaurant isn't there then I would search the food database for a similar restaurant dish. It's close enough (unless you are eating out a lot).