so you wannabee a Domestik Goddess?

Want to know how many calories are in your food just by weighing it? I don’t. It would interfere with my carefully constructed diet plan of eating whatever falls out of the fridge (or the chips bag) when I just can’t go another second without eating something.

But many people do want to know what they’re scarfing down, and for some very good reasons, too — health, for example.

So, here’s a dandy appliance that seems like it could have come right out of Star Trek. (Though none of Captain Kirk’s pointy-hipped blue alien babes seemed to have an issue with weight control, did they?)

The Escali Cibo Nutritional Scale has an “intelligent weighing system” that counts the calories and other nutritional content of your food so you don’t have to fuss with food charts and mathematics, just to get a healthy and nutritious meal.

The manufacturer says that it “displays values for calorie, sodium, protein, fat, carbohydrate, cholesterol or fibre content via the input of 999 different food codes and calculates the total nutritional value of up to 99 different meal components.” How clever!

I’m thinking that this food scale sounds like it would be particularly useful for someone trying to make a major lifestyle change, like a diabetic or someone with heart-disease who has been told by their doctor to smarten up and eat right after years of junk food indulgence — getting serious about a switch to healthy living.