misleading calorie info on products

daydream58

Here's what I just potsed on Cobs Bread's facebook page.

What are you willing to bet they spin this somehow... like the stores are in charge of their own slices and so it has nothing to do with them? How about there must be something wrong with my scale? What do you think?

FACEBOOK POST
So I'm tracking my food, trying to lose a few pounds and I notice your site lists that TWO slices of sour dough only weigh 41g? I had to read it three times before I could believe my eyes. How exactly do you propose I obtain 20g slices, because the slicers at the stores in my city do not slice anywhere NEAR thin enough to ever get close to that fairytale weight! I cut ONE slice in half and it was still 24g and it was only 1/8th inch thick, which I think we can all agree does not a sandwich make!

If you are fed up with companies making it impossible to accurately track your food due to their silly and misleading information, maybe we could do something about it? Shame them into being honest? I guess that is a bigger fairy tale than their wishful thinking even, but I'm open to ideas.

Signed,
Fed up with being mislead

aledba

http://www.cobsbread.com/what-we-bake/product-information/productdetails/prod-sourdough_cob shows 75g/2 slices
http://www.cobsbread.com/what-we-bake/product-information/productdetails/prod-sourdough_vienna shows 60g/2 slices.

There are plenty of other sourdough products in their stores. Are any of the ones I posted the right sourdough?

I found http://www.cobsbread.com/what-we-bake/product-information/productdetails/prod-sourdough_half_baguette as 35g/2 slices.
But it's meant to be small, being a baguette. If you slice the bread yourself, or better yet, make it yourself, you can be way more accurate.

cutiepie2628

yeah.. tell'em sister...:flowerforyou:

daydream58

I would be better off just not sampling my husband's bread, LOL! Thanks for checking out the site and noticing there are lots of choices tho, I will look into them, although my husband really just loves the heavy vienna, so that could be the issue.

It would be a lot worse if I made home made, I LOVE my food home made from scratch a little more than I should do, heh.

Here's the Cobs Bakers on Facebook in case anyone else wants to chime in on the post so I don't look like a lone crazy person.
https://www.facebook.com/cobsbread

Francl27

Basically that's why you always need to weigh packaged stuff. I can tell you that bread always underestimates the weight of a slice... those 40 calorie slices are more often than not 45 or 50 calories, for example.