Nutritional labels kill me!!

Joe74
Joe74 Posts: 35 Member
in Food and Nutrition
So one serving size equals 3 cookies...Really!!! I mean C'mon!!! I eat these damn things by the sleeve!! I look like damn tree chipper with shyt flying out the side of my mouth!! 3 cookies!! PLease!! This has to be a typo!

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  • leomom72
    leomom72 Posts: 1,797 Member
    right ??..its depressing sometimes, and just not worth it for some things..:cry:
  • EroseT23
    EroseT23 Posts: 74 Member
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Qa-B7Sg_i4

    :wink:
  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,392 Member
    It definitely sux.
  • stephaniep12345mfp
    stephaniep12345mfp Posts: 116 Member
    I was just having this conversation with my boyfriend. The packaging can be so deceiving...and the labels so depressing. We were talking about the fact that we must eat far more than most people if the serving size listed for most foods is the actual amount that people eat. Crazy!!
  • mamagooskie
    mamagooskie Posts: 2,964 Member
    sometimes I am so disappointed with serving sizes! What I really hate is when you buy a SMALL (like 50gram-100gram) bag of something like nuts or whatever and read the label and assume its for the whole bag and there is actually like 2-3 servings in there. Rediculous.

    However the same thing goes for healthy food, when I want something good for me like a big plate of veggies, I'm actually surprised at how low a cup or two can be in calories and how filling it is.
  • fiberartist219
    fiberartist219 Posts: 1,865 Member
    You probably shouldn't be eating the whole sleeve of cookies anyway. They are a treat, not a meal. Share the sleeve with some friends.

    I'm just grateful to have nutrition labels at all. I read them frequently.
  • fae14
    fae14 Posts: 54 Member
    However the same thing goes for healthy food, when I want something good for me like a big plate of veggies, I'm actually surprised at how low a cup or two can be in calories and how filling it is.

    I just noticed this with my veggies. I bought some frozen ones and was like, ok a cup is going to be like 100 calories. Its not. Try like 1/4c is 45. Its awesome. I'm letting myself have 2 cups of it because its good for me and yes, filling. YAY FOR BEING FULL!

    I also put ONE peppermint white chocolate kiss on my snack and it was 44 calories.

    1/4c veggies vs ONE candy...hmmm :bigsmile:
  • sjtreely
    sjtreely Posts: 1,014 Member
    I've proven Kraft Mac & Cheese wrong many a times. One box = one serving. Everyone knows that but them.

    I've proven the makers of microwave popcorn wrong, too. There was never a need to create the "single" serving bag. It was created at microwave popcorn's inception.

    Wait till Girl Scout cookies arrive .... I'll prove them wrong, too!
  • jzaz903
    jzaz903 Posts: 306 Member
    I've proven Kraft Mac & Cheese wrong many a times. One box = one serving. Everyone knows that but them.

    I've proven the makers of microwave popcorn wrong, too. There was never a need to create the "single" serving bag. It was created at microwave popcorn's inception.

    Wait till Girl Scout cookies arrive .... I'll prove them wrong, too!

    agreed on the first one, 100%!!
  • Humboldtdeepher
    Humboldtdeepher Posts: 3
    #1) I LOVE sweets.
    #2) I LOVE veggies.
    #3) So why not put them together?

    ...I make (and so can you), cookies/muffins/bread using the pulp left over from my juicer. Take a basic banana bread recipe, but instead of banana use whatever fruit/veggie you'd like---juicer pulp works amazingly! And, if you don't have any, ask Jamba Juice for theirs. It freezes well and you can do all sorts of stuff with it, including make cookies. Either put the dough in a bread pan, muffin pan, or drop it by the spoonful onto a cookie sheet and bake. If you want it less cake-like for cookies, use less egg than the recipe calls for.

    If you want it super sweet but not full of sugar, use Splenda baking granules instead of sugar. You can also use whole-wheat flour instead of white flour if you want it even healthier (I don't go this far though).

    And, for an added treat, you can dip it in dark chocolate and put it in the fridge until its hardened.

    Now you have a high fiber, whole grain, antioxidant, sugar free (well besides natural sugar found in the fruits/veggies) cookie/muffin/bread that you can eat lots of! =) And, since there is no package, who knows what the serving size is? And, who cares?
  • Humboldtdeepher
    Humboldtdeepher Posts: 3
    Or you could always go with something more traditional: http://www.delish.com/recipes/cooking-recipes/low-calorie-cookie-recipes

    If you decide to bake, its worth it because cookies freeze well and if you bake once a month or once every two months, you can freeze cookies in ziplocks and take them out as you want to eat them. They take about 10 minutes to defrost and your as good as gold.
  • Nopedotjpeg
    Nopedotjpeg Posts: 1,805 Member
    the worst is things that are packaged for an individual to consume it in one serving, but they mark it as more than one. Like a honey bun I saw was labeled as two servings.
  • Humboldtdeepher
    Humboldtdeepher Posts: 3
    Oh, oh, oh! I got another one! ....I remember my mom eating these store bought meringue cookies...and I happened to look at the label. It was something awesome like 45 calories for 4 cookies. You should check meringue cookies out next time you're at the store. I think they barely have any calories and you could potentially eat 26 cookies and be only at 300 calories. =)

    ...and, they are fat-free, cholesterol-free, and even have a little protein.
  • CannibalisticVegetarian
    CannibalisticVegetarian Posts: 1,255 Member
    Yeah I used to go all out on average sized bags of gummy bears (one of my guilty pleasures) until I got wise one evening. Now I say the whole bag is a serving, but apparently the company wants to pee on my parade (am I using that phrase correctly?) by telling me there are like... 4 servings in the whole damn thing. Sooo I'm not a math person, but for gits-and-shiggles, I tally up the numbers... and then put myself in time-out for eating nearly my entire day's worth of calories (give or take).
  • swimmchick87
    swimmchick87 Posts: 458 Member
    Yesterday was my "cheat meal" and I was looking for a dessert that would not be an astronomical amount of calories since I'd had a burger and fries for dinner. Went to kroger and saw they had individual slices of cake- it sounded perfect- no leftovers! I look at the label and it's 250 calories...for 1/3 of a slice!!! Who eats 1/3 of a slice of cake? So it was 750 for the entire slice...it went right back on the shelf!
  • tchrnmommy
    tchrnmommy Posts: 342 Member
    I've proven Kraft Mac & Cheese wrong many a times. One box = one serving. Everyone knows that but them.

    I've proven the makers of microwave popcorn wrong, too. There was never a need to create the "single" serving bag. It was created at microwave popcorn's inception.

    Wait till Girl Scout cookies arrive .... I'll prove them wrong, too!

    haha

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