Some of you may know that a few weeks before Christmas my Salter scale broke.  Unfortunately something fell on it and it stopped working.

This was a huge problem.  We use our scale for a lot of things when it comes to managing Tristan’s diabetes.

Adam went online and found the Kitrics Digital Nutrition Scale.  It had some good reviews plus it had 99 more food codes.  Another thing that we liked is that it show the nutritional information just like on packaged food.

So what you will find below is my opinion of both scales.  This is based on my experience with both and my needs for the scale.

Kitrics Digital Nutrition Scale

Nice features:

- The nutritional information is presented just like packaged food;

- 999 already programmed food codes and the possibility of adding another 99 of your own food codes;

- The book is laminated which really nice in a kitchen

When the scale was delivered I was so excited.  We had gone a little over 1 week without our “normal” scale and we found it very difficult.  So yes, for me that was the excitement for that day.

Well my excitement was very short lived! :(  Some of the negative comments from other buyers were because of the lack of backlight on the scale and the beeping sound that it made.  Honestly those things didn’t bother me one little bit.  However, this scale did not meet our needs at all.  Yes it has 999 food codes.  But most of them we don’t use.  One of the things that we use the scale for is Mac & Cheese.  This scale did not offer that option.  It had macaroni….. dry!  Honestly what am I going to do with that?  It didn’t have mashed potatotes, it didn’t have mac & cheese but on the other hand it had a lot of different meats.  Doesn’t help me.

Salter Scale

We were first introduced to the Salter Scale about 1 year ago by the dietician in Tristan’s diabetes team.  We fell in love with it the moment that we started using it.  This Salter scale is not as fancy as the Kitrics.  But it is more suited to our needs.  It offers 900 food codes.  The plate is removable so that you can put it in the dishwasher.  It has Mac & Cheese!!!!  And mashed potatoes and rice.  We can actually use this scale to help us figure out carbs in a dinner.

I love this scale!

After realizing that the Kitrics Scale just didn’t meet our needs we ordered our “old” “new” salter scale.  It arrived today.  I’m excited and so is Tristan.  We have been avoiding Mac & Cheese…. now he can have it again.

We purchased our Kitrics Scale from Amazon for the price of $44.95

We purchased both of our Salter Scale from Cutlery and More for the price of $29.95

It just goes to show, more money doesn’t always mean better!  If you are the parent of a diabetic child I highly recommend using a Salter Scale to help you plan your child’s meal and to get accurate carbohydrate.  I love mine and I don’t want to go without again!

I am going to keep the Kitrics scale as a back up in case our Salter Scale gets broken again and we need to order a new one.  The Kitrics scale is a nice scale it’s jut not appropriate for our diabetes needs!