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Originally Posted by LisaS

For stuff like yogurt or cottage cheese, I just put the bowl on the scale, tare it and put in the yogurt, so I'm only weighing not using volume measures. The same with cereal and milk, salad dressing, ketchup - anything I really "eyeball" or do "to taste" - I do as I like but weigh it also. For something like tuna salad I put in the tuna, tare, relish, tare, mayo, tare, chopped celery - add it up and done. Much easier for me than using measuring spoons.

That's what I do. I got my scale as a Christmas gift a couple of years ago, and specifically requested one with a tare feature just to make things easier. Works wonderfully.