Fun calorie app

Update on the Droid phone: yes we've kept them. So now I'm trying to get the most out of mine.

Today's inspiration: I saw a woman at work who has lost a lot of weight (also a bicyclist), and remembered she was talking a year ago about an app she download (back in the old iPhone days) to track calories. So I went out and found a Droid app that is loads of fun, easy, and I've only started to use it.

Number one cool thing: bar code scanner. If I have a package (box, can, bottle, whatever), the phone can scan and analyze the bar code and return ALL of the nutrition information. So at work I scanned my Quaker chewy bar, and it knew 90 calories, 1.5 fat, 1g protein, etc. Even that it was 2 Weight Watcher's points. Then I just touch an icon to add it to my food diary. Of all the foods I've scanned so far, only one was a problem: my lite yogurt scanned only as low-fat, so it said something like 175 calories when it's really 80. Easy to fix, though.

Second cool thing: restaurant look-ups. A specific drawback I found, though, is it can be limited. I looked up Chevy's (had lunch there last week), but it only brought up four menu items.

Other quick look-ups include brand names, store brands, or just food name ("banana"). And I can save meals, like if I often have chai tea and banana and cereal for breakfast, then I can easily bring that up as a group. Or building a particular sandwich or a homemade dinner dish.

Anyway, I'm having fun with food!