Let me ask you a question.  How many times do you finish cooking dinner only to have tons of leftovers or food that ends up going right down the garbage disposal?  If you are like the average family, you have your hand up in the air and are mumbling “all the time” to yourself.  You may not have realized it, but a digital kitchen scale can go a long way to preventing that from happening as much.

It is unlikely that you will ever be able to produce the perfect amount of food for your family on a regular basis, but cooking too much is a waste of both time and money.  If only there was a way to monitor this a little better and make sure that you made amounts closer to what they would actually eat.

Using a kitchen food scale is a great way to do this.  You can start to measure out portions of vegetables, starches and entrees to ensure that you are actually making an amount that people will eat instead of wasting it all the time.  Even if you are keeping them as leftovers, it is just not the same.

Just the term left over makes things seem unappealing.  Go look in your fridge right now.  While you say that you are not throwing anything away and that you keep everything that is not eaten as a left over, how often are they actually consumed?  People will do everything they can to avoid opening up that Tupperware container and eating something that was made 2 or more days ago.

How is a kitchen scale going to help you prevent all of this you ask?  You should pretty much have a feel for what your family eats, but that is often tough to judge when you are making raw amounts of food.  You many know that hubby is going to have 3 scoops of potatoes and 2 scoops of fresh peas, but what is that in an amount?

After a bit of time, you can figure that he eats x ounces of this and the family eats x pounds of that.  By measuring everything off before you ever even cook it, you are making sure that you only cook what is going to be eaten for that meal.  Now you are not throwing anything away and every meal will feature close to the perfect amount of food on the table.  The only thing that will go hungry is the garbage disposal.

Now you are not going to be perfect every time, but you will have a much better chance of not wasting food if you use a digital kitchen scale in your food preparation.  At least now you are going in with an organized game plan instead of doing it off the hip.  Over  a few months, the money that you save on wasted food will be more than enough to pay for that new fancy scale you have sitting on the counter now.