Stupid Serving Size

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  • lmhbuss
    lmhbuss 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....
  • Slacker16
    Slacker16 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.
  • FinallyDoingMe
    FinallyDoingMe 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:
  • 1stday13
    1stday13 Posts: 433 Member
    Wine.
    You mean 1 serving Isn't "1 bottle'????:sad:
  • ElizabethFuller
    ElizabethFuller 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:
  • jlshea
    jlshea Posts: 494 Member
    Poptarts. They come 2 in the little silver package yet the serving size is ONE pastry. Oookay.
  • mccindy72
    mccindy72 Posts: 7,001 Member
    granola. 1/4 cup? that's like a little sprinkle.
  • Sharon5913
    Sharon5913 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:
  • RockWarrior84
    RockWarrior84 Posts: 840 Member
    soda.....a can or bottle is a serving not 2.5 servings
  • ccrdragon
    ccrdragon Posts: 3,374 Member
    Healthy Choice Devil's Food Cookies - what do you mean 1 package isn't one serving?!?!?!?!
  • _Calypso_
    _Calypso_ 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
  • wyattj99
    wyattj99 Posts: 454 Member
    Frozen pizza
  • serindipte
    serindipte Posts: 1,557 Member
    Pop Tarts - 1 pastry.

    If the serving is ONE pastry why do they put TWO in a package?!! Trickery

    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?
  • ginamisa
    ginamisa Posts: 20 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... :-(
  • 4myB
    4myB Posts: 16 Member
    I just measured out 15g of chocolate chips. Wow. Just wow.

    And cheese, 1oz. is so sad.
  • sprintto50
    sprintto50 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?
  • Coltsatc
    Coltsatc Posts: 36
    Thin Mint Girl Scout cookies - 4 cookies? Ya right....
  • pinksmama
    pinksmama Posts: 40
    1/8 of the pizza. Cause yea, that's why I am going to eat pizza.. :yawn:
  • beckyboop712
    beckyboop712 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.
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    I don't let a package dictate what my serving is going to be...it just helps with the math.
  • _Calypso_
    _Calypso_ Posts: 1,074 Member
    Wine.
    You mean 1 serving Isn't "1 bottle'????:sad:

    It is for me. LOL :drinker:

    4oz?? thats just silly.
  • softncudly
    softncudly Posts: 722 Member
    1/2 of a small can of green beans/green peas/ corn etc.
  • Rainboots80
    Rainboots80 Posts: 218 Member
    Taco sauce- 1 tablespoon just isn't enough!
  • CoffeeBugg
    CoffeeBugg Posts: 75 Member
    Good news peeps!!! The FDA is going to change the serving sizes from "mere morsel" to "what we actually eat"... so no more 2.5 servings in a 20 oz of soda... no more 2 tagalongs... or half a candy bar... ;)


    Because we can't just do the math ourselves??

    Perhaps the same reason bottles of lighter fluid have a flammable warning.
  • Donald_Dozier_50
    Donald_Dozier_50 Posts: 395 Member
    Good news peeps!!! The FDA is going to change the serving sizes from "mere morsel" to "what we actually eat"... so no more 2.5 servings in a 20 oz of soda... no more 2 tagalongs... or half a candy bar... ;)


    Because we can't just do the math ourselves??

    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.
  • CoffeeBugg
    CoffeeBugg Posts: 75 Member
    Sliced bread the lists 1 slice as a serving size.
  • salembambi
    salembambi Posts: 5,585 Member
    cashews---whatever the serving size is its not happening
  • WendyTerry420
    WendyTerry420 Posts: 13,274 Member
    cashews---whatever the serving size is its not happening

    :drinker:
  • WendyTerry420
    WendyTerry420 Posts: 13,274 Member
    Good news peeps!!! The FDA is going to change the serving sizes from "mere morsel" to "what we actually eat"... so no more 2.5 servings in a 20 oz of soda... no more 2 tagalongs... or half a candy bar... ;)


    Because we can't just do the math ourselves??

    Perhaps the same reason bottles of lighter fluid have a flammable warning.

    im-not-saying-lets-kill-all-the-stupid-people.png
  • CallMeCupcakeDammit
    CallMeCupcakeDammit Posts: 9,377 Member
    Pop Tarts - 1 pastry.

    If the serving is ONE pastry why do they put TWO in a package?!! Trickery

    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?

    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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