Ridiculous serving sizes
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THANK YOU for this one. I've been trying to find a good hand comparison chart for a while.0 -
Ben & Jerrys pisses me off so bad. 1 pint is 4 servings. My *kitten*. No one eats 1 serving. You gotta eat the pint. You just have to.0
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I'm still thinking about those tricky granola *kitten*.0
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Crystal Light: One "on the go" packet is 2 servings. WTF! Who uses just half of a packet? and what am I supposed to do with the other half once the packet is open? Of course I'm going to use the whole thing. Nevermind, that bottled water is usually 16+ ounces, not 8. Luckily, the WHOLE packet is only 10 calories. Not worth complaining about I suppose, but still STUPID.0
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I was at the grocery store on Saturday and saw a box with a 5oz. salmon filet in it. The serving size on the back of the box said 4oz. What moron decided that you should cut off a single ounce from the rest? And then what do you do with it? It isn't enough for a meal later, so you eat it anyway.0
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Let's not kid ourselves, what you're getting in American Chinese restaurants is not necessarily what people in China are eating either...I just recently started liking Chinese food, so I looked up the calories after I ate, to fill this out. OMG!!! I was in shock how bad it is for you. I mean you don't see a lot of fat Chinese people.
It's not "bad for you," just the portions are too big is all.0 -
When the serving size is ridiculously low the first thing I do is check the ingredients for hydrogenated oil. Often manufacturers make the serving size small enough that they can legally put trans fat = 0 on the label.0
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I don't know if you're like me and get excited when you see something you like to eat and at first glance it looks surprisingly low in calories. Only to later have your bubble busted when you look at the serving size and it' says "2 pieces".
This just happened to me with granola. I'm thinking healthy granola, I can eat a good portion of this. Well serving size was 1/4 of a cup. Who eats a 1/4 cup of granola? Those tricky granola *kitten*.
I don't know about you but I get really frustrated with serving sizes and think they should be labeled differently. I thought we could post some ridiculous/tricky serving sizes you guys have noticed. Maybe you have seen something others haven't and should be careful with.
How about those fruit popsicles? I used to have a coconut flavored one for 100 calories, until I realized it was two servings per popsicle! Who eats a pospsicle in two servings! Ridonkulous0 -
POP TARTS!!!! OMG
Ok so I was CRAVING poptarts not too long ago, look at the box in the store and it says something like 230 calories. I thought it was per package, IT WAS PER TART. I have a lot of calorie allowance so I figured I would have 2 packages for breakfast (which would have normally fit into breakfast calories although sugars would be over) and when I went to log it I realized it was per pastery.
They for sure need to package them better or be more specific.
From that day on, I have cut out poptarts completely.0 -
THANK YOU for this one. I've been trying to find a good hand comparison chart for a while.
But I have SMALL hands.0 -
You forgot to show the hand signal for a serving size of ice cream. It equals 1/5 of a fist....the middle fifth.
Barb0 -
The worst one of my pet peeves is a can of soup 70 cals for 125 ml but there's 284 ml in a can. Ummm! you'd think they could tell us how many cals are in a half a can instead, or put 250 in the flippin' can. Wonder how many extra cals we burn trying to figure out the proper measurements!
And I also know a lot of people who think that 70 cals is for the whole thing! NOT!:frown: 0 -
Here's one for you.
1/4 cup of steel cut oats has the same nutritional value as 1/2 cup of rolled oats.
It's like oatception.0 -
How about those fruit popsicles? I used to have a coconut flavored one for 100 calories, until I realized it was two servings per popsicle! Who eats a pospsicle in two servings! Ridonkulous
HOW do you eat a Popsicle in two servings??0 -
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well, from the looks of this picture, i'll have the reeses peices.
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I like this a lot! Thank you!0 -
POP TARTS!!!! OMG
Ok so I was CRAVING poptarts not too long ago, look at the box in the store and it says something like 230 calories. I thought it was per package, IT WAS PER TART. I have a lot of calorie allowance so I figured I would have 2 packages for breakfast (which would have normally fit into breakfast calories although sugars would be over) and when I went to log it I realized it was per pastery.
They for sure need to package them better or be more specific.
From that day on, I have cut out poptarts completely.
:laugh:
I'll never give up poptarts.0 -
It bothers me when something has low calories and I need to eat a ridiculous amount of it to get a proper amount of calories. When you need to eat in the neighborhood of 3k a day vs. the 1200 a lot of you are trying to stay under, things change.0
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Let's not kid ourselves, what you're getting in American Chinese restaurants is not necessarily what people in China are eating either...I just recently started liking Chinese food, so I looked up the calories after I ate, to fill this out. OMG!!! I was in shock how bad it is for you. I mean you don't see a lot of fat Chinese people.
It's not "bad for you," just the portions are too big is all.
^^^ This is also true! I know that I do *NOT* what what they are eating in China. I saw a show on that once. Just eww! :laugh:0 -
I made the mistake of eating a "serving" of prunes once.
7 prunes is not a serving.
7 prunes is a cruel practical joke from the people at the prune factory.
I love prunes and could eat a boat load of them...............I would definitely get the exercise in from running to the toilet, LOL0 -
I bought a bottle of Jose Cuervo Light Margarita for a weekend of drinking at camp because it has 90 calories (or something like that) per serving. Turns out a serving is 4 ounces! Who drinks 4 ounces of a margarita?!
I bought that one time and it's actually quite nasty. I'd rather just have a rum and diet coke and forego most of that sugar0 -
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I don't really eat that way anymore but the new 100 calorie pack foods are the worst about this sort of thing. I remember buying some 100 calorie brownies once only to be disappointed that they were tiny, maybe the the width of two quarters at the most and super thin.0
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Yea, they need to do something about that. Oh, and your post was hilarious. lol0
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That's great! I measure EVERYTHING but this is a good tip when out and about x0 -
XD "tricky granola *kitten*" is going down in history.
personally, I know it's crap for you anyway, but I hate how there's two servings of Ramen in a single bag. A single serving is "half a block." I found mini bags of ramen once that were wonderful!
200 empty, salty, lazy-college-student calories can be somewhat forgiven, imo, but at 400 calories, I feel like I should find a more wholesome meal. ;D
also cans of soup--progresso, campbell, whatever. it is a CAN of SOUP. luckily, if you get the heart healthy and light sodium ones, it's not bad at all to eat the whole can of 2 or 2.5 servings, but if you get just a regular old can of it, it's about your daily allotment of sodium on top of 400~600 calories for a measly little bowl. ;D
packaged foods are ALL tricky *kitten*. it would probably be best to avoid them altogether but I can only manage that part of the time, when I'm not being slammed on all sides by life. 0 -
Giant AMEN. I got duped by a frozen food item recently - and like someone else said, who the hell eats HALF a frozen meal? Here's the kicker: half a serving was 250 calories. That's 500 CALORIES for a frozen meal. Come ON!! I'm not blowing that many calories on maybe a cup and a half of food, that's pointless. I could have an epic salad for at least a third fewer calories.
Whew. Thank you for letting me get that off my chest, it's been bugging me.
Also, I'm returning the rest of the box of frozen dinners (it was a Costco purchase) in protest.0 -
I'm with you, CANNOT eat a 1/4 cup of granola so I don't at all. Peanut anything junkie anyway 0
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Let's not kid ourselves, what you're getting in American Chinese restaurants is not necessarily what people in China are eating either...I just recently started liking Chinese food, so I looked up the calories after I ate, to fill this out. OMG!!! I was in shock how bad it is for you. I mean you don't see a lot of fat Chinese people.
It's not "bad for you," just the portions are too big is all.
^^^ This is also true! I know that I do *NOT* what what they are eating in China. I saw a show on that once. Just eww! :laugh:
HAHA @ the skinny Chinese people... Oh you just know those guys aren't giving us round eyes the same stuff they eat.0 -
I just recently started liking Chinese food, so I looked up the calories after I ate, to fill this out. OMG!!! I was in shock how bad it is for you. I mean you don't see a lot of fat Chinese people.
The Chinese don't eat what the takeaway serves! X0
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