[Kellen]

If you want instant satisfaction, Target has a good chefmate one for 50bucks, with an info bank built in, that gives you the nutritional analysis of lot's of foods. (and the tare, grams & ounces feature) There's a learning curve with it, but it's cool.

That said, it turns out I just weigh, write it down, and enter in fitday, and really don't use the nifty 'brain' feature. So you could prolly get a cheaper model. I couldn't wait to have one shipped.

Now after using the scale with fitday, I can do a pretty good guess with measuring cups and even my own hand's 'grab' feature. I'm amazed at the way I can grab a handfull of grated cheese or chopped chicken and have it weigh 2 or 3 ounces, just by feel. I mean usually it's almost exact.