I bought this 1 year ago to help with the food weight for a 3 year old diabetic child in my child care. It was quite a bit of work to figure out how to use it. I guess I was intimidated! Once I sat down for an hour or so and really read over the book and figured out how it worked - I LOVED IT! I have not and will not put favorite recipes in it but I do use it to weigh all her fruit. It does remember the ones you have used and you can scroll through the list. I also LOVE to use it to weigh servings. Ie - I can put a bowl on the scale and zero it out. I add dry pasta for instance or dry cereal until I get to the amount of grams that is 1 serving. You can also change it to ML and LB/OZ as well as G. I probably use it at least 3 times a day for all her meals. I no longer use the 1 cup is a serving method. I use the grams per serving since this scale is so accurate. It has made my life and her insulin portions go much smoother and much more accurate.

This scale is great for weighing food and liquids. The best thing about it is you can weigh multiple items on the same plate. Just reset it to "0" once you get the weight of one thing on your plate, then put the next item on and get the weight of that item... It's very user friendly.

This is wonderful for counting carbs. I'm not sure what issue the previous reviewer had about insensitivity of the scale, mine certainly is not like that. I keep it in grams mode since most products are weighed more accurately that way, and I can weigh an individual goldfish cracker or an almond accurately. Carbs, calories, protein, all the info from the national database is included and it's been accurate based on my experience, with the notable exception of corn on the cob (carbs are undercounted).

I don't find the scrolling thing to be annoying at all, and I thought I would.

I do think the process for adding an entire recipe of something is cumbersome. It's time consuming and you can't just enter in the volume of something--you need to know the weight. The best time to enter a recipe is when you're making it, so you can do it as you go. If you make lots of casseroles or those kinds of foods and you really want to just be able to weigh a serving of a mixed food item, then it would be worth the trouble.

This scale is fantastic. It is nice to be able to place an item on the scale and get all the nutritional information.

The only problem is when you want to insert an item into memory, the instructions are no where near what is needed to help you do this. Then when you call the company, the staff does not want to be bothered with assisting you with the problem. The scale is great - they just need to do a better job with the instructions.

i've heard nothing but rave reviews from other diabetics about this scale.. i kept thinking to myself ehh i don't need a scale.. and then for the next two months i found myself needing one and wishing time and time again that i had one. finally, i went and hunted one down online. i waited ..ANTICIPATED for two weeks it's arrival. i just got it today and its a beauty! i like that it can run on batteries, or you can plug in a wall adapter if you have one.. there's a slot on the left side of the scale for putting a plug in. i'm gonna be making good use of this baby (as a perfect sidekick to the calorie king website!). the only thing missing would be for it to have a way to hook it up to your computer and download your food logs into a spreadsheet that you can graph or analyze or print out. if it could do all that as well then it would be the scaleKing! otherwise, this thing is the best scale i've come across as far as keeping tabs on my diet and nutrition. i plan on using it to help me learn more accurate carb counting so that first, i won't overstuff my mouth, lol, and second, so that my type1 diabetic body will thank me for the acurate insulin dosing! =D Get this scale, i highly doubt you'll Not find a frequent use for it.