Servings Per Container

LynnShul

I recently bought a box of Kashi 7 Whole Grain Puffs. I loved them, so I ate a bowl for breakfast every morning. I measured a cup (a real measuring cup, not a coffee cup) out and dumped it in the bowl each morning. The box says I should have been able to have breakfast for 9 days. I just made it through 7 mornings. What is up with that? Are the calories really per cup and they skimped on the amount in the box? Do they call a cup different than I call a cup?

dinosnopro

Do you have a scale? If you do I would go by weight, seems to be more accurate than volume

Le_Joy

This is why I weigh things. With cereal I get paranoid and wonder if maybe I shook the cup so more fit in... That being said I have weighed it before and still not come up with the same # of servings before...

Amryfal

i've noticed this too. bags of chex mix (very very occasional treat) there is no WAY there are 11 cups in that bag! fresh express salad kits...7 cups? uh-uh. nice try.

things settle, which is why packages say "by weight not volume" a lot of times.

i vary between shrugging and measuring by volume (a big package with lots of people eating out of it) or figuring my serving based dividing up the entire package (a small package i'll be eating myself over several days). i figure the calorie count comes out in the wash eventually.