YOU CAN AVOID the pointless drudgery of weighing everything you eat by comparing portions to common household objects.
Cheese: One ping-pong ball
Sauerkraut: Half a golf club
Water: A small fax machine
Spinach: The carburetor of a 1934 DeSoto Airflow
Butter: One lump of butter
Beef: 1/482 of a cow
Pasta (cooked): A stapler
Fruit Jelly: One of the fruit from which it is made, minus a gross of “falcon” steel pens
Dinner Roll: One dinner roll
Fish: One volume of the 1834 edition of Isaac Disraeli’s Curiosities of Literature
Potato: One hamburger