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    Stupid Serving Size

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    • Posts: 282 Member
      Girl Scout Tagalongs: 2 cookies...

      2 cookies? LOL That's called "just getting started!"

      This. Totally this. There are two boxes in my kitchen right now just mocking me....
    • Posts: 1,184 Member
      ANY frozen entree or prepackaged meal, snack, chips, etc.

      My serving size is always, always 1 container. Doesn't matter what's in it or how many calories. If it's in the bag or box, I eat it.
      Pretty much this. If I cook a meal myself, portion control works fine. If it comes out of a bag, the bag is the portion. I can _sometimes_ stop halfway through a family-sized Doritos bag...
      Because we can't just do the math ourselves??
      Most people either can't or don't, actually.
    • Posts: 84 Member
      Ice Cream and Cereal for me. I mean who in the world eats only 1/4 cup ice cream or 3/4 cup cereal? It's just NOT feasible :huh:
    • Posts: 433 Member
      Wine.
      You mean 1 serving Isn't "1 bottle'????:sad:
    • Posts: 352 Member
      Almonds, I bought a "single serving" pack of almonds and when I read the (empty) packet it turned out to be two servings. My big one is granola. I've stopped eating it all together, once I weighed it on scales I found that my perfectly reasonable serving size was three times the recommended amount. I decided that I really shouldn't eat half my calories for breakfast so, for the time being at least, it's off the menu.:sad:
    • Posts: 494 Member
      Poptarts. They come 2 in the little silver package yet the serving size is ONE pastry. Oookay.
    • Posts: 7,001 Member
      granola. 1/4 cup? that's like a little sprinkle.
    • Posts: 134 Member
      Nutella, dear sweet Jesus that stuff is evil... The whole jar? not a problem.

      Ice cream... 1/2 cup? really? um, NO. Must. Have. More.

      Wine- yep, it's the BOTTLE for me!! :blushing:
    • Posts: 840 Member
      soda.....a can or bottle is a serving not 2.5 servings
    • Posts: 3,375 Member
      Healthy Choice Devil's Food Cookies - what do you mean 1 package isn't one serving?!?!?!?!
    • Posts: 1,074 Member
      Almonds - really- 10?

      'What kind of almonds are you eating? :tongue: I have some at my desk - Serving size 28 nuts = 160 cal (Blue Diamond in the can)
      I count out 28 and put the can away. My co-workers think I'm insane. LOL
    • Posts: 454 Member
      Frozen pizza
    • Posts: 1,557 Member
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      I was JUST about to say this! What am I supposed to do with the other one? I'm a single lady with nobody to share my pop tarts with :sad:

      Stick it in a ziploc for tomorrow?
    • Posts: 21 Member
      1 Oz of Cheese.... or 1/2 cup of rice.... or an oz of meat. Wow... yep 4 oz of wine... hmmm who does that... :-(
    • Posts: 16 Member
      I just measured out 15g of chocolate chips. Wow. Just wow.

      And cheese, 1oz. is so sad.
    • Posts: 410 Member
      Soup or any other canned food where there are not an even number of serving sizes. Who is the one who gets the extra 40mls in a can of soup that is 540mls but the serving size is 250mls? If I split the can into two bowls, each one is 1.08 servings?
    • Posts: 36
      Thin Mint Girl Scout cookies - 4 cookies? Ya right....
    • Posts: 40
      1/8 of the pizza. Cause yea, that's why I am going to eat pizza.. :yawn:
    • Posts: 383 Member
      Cereal - most are 3/4 of a cup. At a minimum I do 1 cup. Though sometimes *coughtodaycough* I do two cups haha

      I fill up my bowl. I just guesstimate (bad idea I know) that it's about 2 cups. I should just stay away from cereal...it always makes me hungrier.
    • Posts: 41,865 Member
      I don't let a package dictate what my serving is going to be...it just helps with the math.
    • Posts: 1,074 Member
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      You mean 1 serving Isn't "1 bottle'????:sad:

      It is for me. LOL :drinker:

      4oz?? thats just silly.
    • Posts: 722 Member
      1/2 of a small can of green beans/green peas/ corn etc.
    • Posts: 218 Member
      Taco sauce- 1 tablespoon just isn't enough!
    • Posts: 75 Member
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      Because we can't just do the math ourselves??

      Perhaps the same reason bottles of lighter fluid have a flammable warning.
    • Posts: 395 Member
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      Perhaps the same reason bottles of lighter fluid have a flammable warning.

      Actually the FDA does not put nutrition labels on anything, the manufacturers do, funded by PEOPLE who purchase their products. This "good news" is expected to cost consumers 2 billion dollars. Neither the government nor business pays for anything, they simply pass the added cost to YOU AND ME.
    • Posts: 75 Member
      Sliced bread the lists 1 slice as a serving size.
    • Posts: 5,585 Member
      cashews---whatever the serving size is its not happening
    • Posts: 13,274 Member
      cashews---whatever the serving size is its not happening

      :drinker:
    • Posts: 13,274 Member
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      Perhaps the same reason bottles of lighter fluid have a flammable warning.

      im-not-saying-lets-kill-all-the-stupid-people.png
    • Posts: 9,377 Member
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      Stick it in a ziploc for tomorrow?

      That's what I do! I put the baggie in the box before I've even eaten the first one, so it's there and I have no excuse.
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