I discovered this new site(well at least to me) which I thought was quite cool. It’s called The Daily Plate and it’s a site aimed at helping you eat smarter. I find myself I would like to be a little more health conscious, make some better food decisions and possibly lose some weight in the process. I find the biggest problem I have is that I have no idea how good or bad the food I’m eating might be, or how that relates to other things I might eat in a given day. This site is very handy because it allows you to look up pretty much anything. If you ate a 3 piece chicken strips from Wendy’s or a poppy seed bagel with Jif peanut butter, it’s in their database with all the nutritional information. You can even build preset meals, so if you eat the same breakfast from a local restaurant frequently, you can just add it as a meal instead of searching for each individual item every time. You can also keep track of activities, even the most minute stuff. I walk 5 minutes from and to my car every day, so I log 10 minutes of brisk walking, as well as a couple of minutes of stair walking once inside our building. I think I saw you could even log hand washing if you want to be that anal about it.
I changed the start page on my browser to open TDP as my homepage, so it reminds me to use the site everyday. I just take a few minutes out of my day and update it as I might eat things during the day. Though I did kinda turn a blind eye to it on the weekend. I went to an Epicurious party on Friday night and had no clue how to even log a bunch of sampling and snacking. Then on Sunday we had a Chinese Buffet lunch for Mother’s Day, so I didn’t even want to know how many calories that would have been. For those who are really into the site, they even have a mobile site. Unfortunately you can’t login and track your food unless you are a gold member of the site through their WAP interface. But you can search for the nutritional info on the site, you just can’t log it. Either way it’s still handy if you have WAP capabilities. Since I use my iPod all the time for its Wi-Fi capabilities these days, I just had to check that out.