Ridiculous serving sizes

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  • RobynLB
    RobynLB Posts: 617 Member
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    Stupidest serving size: 1/2 bar on large protein bars. Like I'm going to unwrap it, take two bites and stick it in my pocket. Same thing for bottled drinks. Just tell me the whole bottle.
  • jefedesalto
    jefedesalto Posts: 154 Member
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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.

    HAHA This was probably done by the same jerk who puts packages of hot dogs in 8 and hot dog buns at 6.
  • auroranflash
    auroranflash Posts: 3,569 Member
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    I wish I had a giant thumb, that way a hunk of cheese would still only be 100 calories for me... :(
  • MemphisKitten
    MemphisKitten Posts: 878 Member
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    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.

    THANK YOU FOR POSTING THIS!!! A lot of people don't know that a packaged food still contains Trans fat because if the quantity of Trans fat is less than one gram per serving, they can legally put ZERO Trans fat on the label!!
  • michelejoann
    michelejoann Posts: 295 Member
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    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.

    I can eat the serving size. It's really not hard to have self control.

    Also: Try the mini cups. They're perfect for just that little craving!
  • Joanitude
    Joanitude Posts: 171 Member
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    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.
    I may get shot here - but it really is possible: I actually have a hard time eating more than 1/4 pint of their ice creams. I think the most I ever managed was 1/2pt. That's why I like eating B&J - I want sooo much less than the regular ice creams.
  • jefedesalto
    jefedesalto Posts: 154 Member
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    How are servings decided anyway? I dont get it and not one single human being has been able to explain it to me. I've been asking for a long time. how is a serving determined?

    Serving Czar. It's like the illuminati.


    HAHA @ Serving Czar/illuminati. Its all done by George W and the new world order. Serving sizes are decided at Area 51 in Roswell.
  • Squidgeypaws007
    Squidgeypaws007 Posts: 1,012 Member
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    Edit to remove stupid net replication on the post!
  • Brunner26_2
    Brunner26_2 Posts: 1,152
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    I think the problem is that what we expect a serving size to be is too large now because they've grown since producers want to sell us more food. Here's a comparison between today's serving sizes and those of 20 years ago.

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  • lwagnitz
    lwagnitz Posts: 1,321 Member
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    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.

    :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

    Funny. But I lived with roommates for a summer that were straight from China...and trust me the food they really eat is nothing in comparison to "Chinese-American" food.


    And yeah, they were really skinny. They thought Lebron James was "fat".
  • muffle1969
    muffle1969 Posts: 96 Member
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    Restaurant serving sizes can be crazy. My husband and I ordered Seafood Trio at Provinos Italian Restaurant last week. They were really nice and split it on two plates for us, so that cut the serving calories to about 500 cals each. Of course, after eating a bunch of salad and a couple rolls, we were only able to finish half of our half-servings. We had the leftovers for lunch. Can you imagine how someone could eat one entire serving? We can't!

    I could probably eat the half-serving if didn't eat the salad and rolls, but that's kind of not the point. :)
  • nikinyx6
    nikinyx6 Posts: 772 Member
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    You forgot to show the hand signal for a serving size of ice cream. It equals 1/5 of a fist....the middle fifth.

    Barb

    nice :)
  • tcunbeliever
    tcunbeliever Posts: 8,219 Member
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    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?!

    Probably the same people who drink 5 ounces of wine!
  • neverstray
    neverstray Posts: 3,845 Member
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    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.
    I may get shot here - but it really is possible: I actually have a hard time eating more than 1/4 pint of their ice creams. I think the most I ever managed was 1/2pt. That's why I like eating B&J - I want sooo much less than the regular ice creams.

    I can eat a gallon in a sitting. so...
  • michelejoann
    michelejoann Posts: 295 Member
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    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.
    I may get shot here - but it really is possible: I actually have a hard time eating more than 1/4 pint of their ice creams. I think the most I ever managed was 1/2pt. That's why I like eating B&J - I want sooo much less than the regular ice creams.

    It's a slightly higher quality ice cream. Also: Try Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams. They are worth every little calorie. :smile:
  • capnrus789
    capnrus789 Posts: 2,736 Member
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    I saw a 7oz swordfish filet at Target, service size 4oz. Ugh.

    Trying figuring out microwave popcorn serving sizes. Brain itches after that.
  • kenazfehu
    kenazfehu Posts: 1,188 Member
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    The worst I've seen is that a 17.5 ounce bottle of sweetened green tea said it was 60 calories per serving, and there were 2.5 servings in the bottle. What?

    I had some boiled red potatoes today, with 2 ounces being just over 100 calories. Hard to believe!
  • Briko3
    Briko3 Posts: 266 Member
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    The worst I've seen is Campbell's Chunky soup. (I've since noticed this trend a lot, but this was the first place I noticed it.) The soup in question said that a serving was 190 calories and that the can contained "about 2 servings". That would make you think it was 380 calories for the can, right? Wrong. After looking at the grams per serving and the grams contained in the can, it turns out that the can contained 2.2 servings, or 418 calories. That's almost a 40 calorie difference! After looking, it turns out this is a very common practice to make soups, etc. look healthier than they are.
  • Smelerz
    Smelerz Posts: 115 Member
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    great thread love all the pics!
  • jlapey
    jlapey Posts: 1,850 Member
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    AT THE VERY LEAST, if the package contains more than one serving, it should be resealable. Otherwise, what the heck are we supposed to do with the rest of the product? You SHOULD be able to assume that a non-resealable package of a 'ready-to-eat' product is a single serving and the nutritional info SHOULD be reflected as such.

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