Not trusting the weights on the packaging!

mezeade

I weigh everything and adjust the calories accordingly. EG: 6 pack of turkey burgers, on the pack it says a burger is 67g and has 90 calories. A burger actually is 74g, so I adjust the calories for accuracy.

What annoys me is that before I started doing this, lots of supermarket items were massively inaccurate which affects logging accurately for the day.

EG: a barley wrap was listed as 45g/5 in pack of 225g. Each wrap is closer to 65g- that's a third more calories and carbs!

Do others weigh items which have listed a weight as well? And why do they underestimate so much?? To appeal to calorie counters?

It really grates my carrot!

heybales

There is both the package size, which usually doesn't have as much variance because that would be free product in one direction, or complaints the other direction.

But the serving size is almost always expressed as "about" because that's the point.

Calories is per gram, not cup or spoonfuls, and the odds of getting the product right on are slim.

Though I've found the mass produced items are much closer where ingredients are thrown in to an item, like small pizza's, or bag of frozen vegetables to steam, or skillet meals. Those are very close.

Even if you don't weigh, best advice is to at least take the package weight divided by the serving size weight in grams, and if you eat the whole package, there you go for real serving size.

Francl27

Yeah I know. I keep using my favorite waffles as an example (Waffle Waffle is the brand). It says one serving is 33g or something, 130 calories, and that there are 8 servings in a box of 4 waffles. Then you weigh the waffles and they are 95g... Hello 373 calories waffle (still worth it... once in a while). I actually emailed them about it and they gave me some BS excuse about how they can't be accurate... Talk about misleading.

So yes, I weigh everything. I'd say that 90% of the time, the things I buy are heavier than what the package says (except cookies, for some reason, those are typically pretty accurate).

JPW1990

I weigh just about everything, because I rarely use the serving size to begin with. If I'm putting olive pieces on a salad, it's easier to just scoop some out and weigh than count out however many pieces are on the label, decide if they all look the same size, and if it's enough.

fevrale

I was very confused (and annoyed) yesterday when I weighed the radishes in a "6 ounce net weight" bag and it was actually 77 ounces. WHAT THE WHATTTT?

ana3067

Francl27 wrote: »

Yeah I know. I keep using my favorite waffles as an example (Waffle Waffle is the brand). It says one serving is 33g or something, 130 calories, and that there are 8 servings in a box of 4 waffles. Then you weigh the waffles and they are 95g... Hello 373 calories waffle (still worth it... once in a while). I actually emailed them about it and they gave me some BS excuse about how they can't be accurate... Talk about misleading.

So yes, I weigh everything. I'd say that 90% of the time, the things I buy are heavier than what the package says (except cookies, for some reason, those are typically pretty accurate).

Well there's your issue: it's doubling the actual serving sizes to lower the calories per serving, so in reality a serving (waffle) would be 66g. So it's still off but not as much as the packaging would insinuate haha. Also is this for frozen/fresh weight? Maybe their 33g means once you've heated it up and it would l ose some moisture/weight.

I also weigh everything. Only things that come up within a gram or two of packaging for me are rice cakes, sometimes bacon (real or different types), and canned tuna. And I've weighed jellos before and they were pretty well spot on so I don't weigh those because... lazy.Everything else I weigh; bread, baked goods, individually wrapped chocolates, aaanything.

Ready2Rock206

fevrale wrote: »

I was very confused (and annoyed) yesterday when I weighed the radishes in a "6 ounce net weight" bag and it was actually 77 ounces. WHAT THE WHATTTT?

Are you sure you weren't mixing up ounces and grams because that is a huge difference. I was trying to calculate a serving of something the other day and it should have been ounces and I was using grams and it took me a minute to realize why my serving was so itty bitty.

flabassmcgee

I weigh EVERYTHING, prepackaged or not.

fevrale

Ready2Rock206 wrote: »

fevrale wrote: »

I was very confused (and annoyed) yesterday when I weighed the radishes in a "6 ounce net weight" bag and it was actually 77 ounces. WHAT THE WHATTTT?

Are you sure you weren't mixing up ounces and grams because that is a huge difference. I was trying to calculate a serving of something the other day and it should have been ounces and I was using grams and it took me a minute to realize why my serving was so itty bitty.

No, it said net weight in ounces and I was weighing in ounces. But it was from a food co-op and not a big manufacturer so a big error like that is more likely. But now I'm more determined to check weights.