Food scale?

Does anyone love (or hate) their kitchen scale? I want to buy one, but they are expensive. So I'm looking for recommendations.

Thanks!

This is a silly reply but I LOVE mine. I don't recall it being to pricey. HOWEVER, I am at work and can't tell you right now what brand it is. lol I will post tonight.

Thanks so much. I got a nice one as a wedding present four years ago and I was so excited to use it. But it never worked and I ended up chucking it.

I was looking on Ebay lately to buy a body fat scale. I also found lots of food scales pretty cheap, maybe you can have a look there...

I bought mine at Wal*Mart and I love it. I'm not at home, but when I get home again I'll post the brand. It's electronic and has a few hundred foods and products preprogrammed. My only concern is it doesn't do a good job of adjusting the weight when I add more food when it's on the scale. I have to take my container off, add more food, and then put it back on. It was about $50 CND and IMHO worth every penny. It's easy to use, accurate, and has a nice selection of preprogrammed kcals, FIB, CHO, PRO, FAT and weighs in grams and ounces.

I, this is hilarious, use my digital postal scale. I mean, I am not using it for mailing anything anymore. It is very accurate and was pretty cheap at office depot. I think I paid about 14.00, nothing fancy.

I bought mine at Bed Bath and Beyond for about $25. It has both grams and ounces. I like that because I can weigh the things like spreads and dressings where the normal serving size is "tablespoons".

I wouldn't be caught without the scale.

I do a lot of batch cooking. I'll cook up a roast, and I'll know that each of the portions that I set up for the week are all the same size, and it helps me be more accurate on my carb/calorie measurements.

Most of the ones on amazon are well priced. Here's an example

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001N07KUE/ref=ox_ya_oh_product

Scales are definitely useful if you're trying to focus on portion control, especially since portions seem to be so mis-sized in the US. You can use them to get an adequate idea of what "1 serving" is of a particular food pretty easily.

Thanks everyone for the recs!

And, yeah, I cook a lot too so I really want to be able to put the whole thing on the scale and then figure out exactly what each serving needs to be.

If I am going to spend the money I want to be able to use it for baking as well, which means it needs to tare/zero so I can use a bowl and also it needs to have a higher capacity than some of the less expensive scales. But that scale is $60~. Maybe I can find on ebay. Hate buying something twice when it isn't what I really want. Hmmmm.

Kmaxwell, I was thinking about getting postal scale. I actually read about it on chowhound (food website). Much cheaper, you can put a lot on and it will tare and blah di blah.