Ridiculous serving sizes
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YES! Have you seen soup commercials? They'll say 90 calories/serving, and 1 can of soup can be 2-4 servings (not to mention the sodium content/serving). Even 200+ calories for 1 bowl of soup is too much for me!0
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Does anyone else have a problem with rye bread or other similarly shaped loaves where calorie content is provided per slice? Which slice, I always wonder, the end slices that are maybe 3 square inches or the centre slices that are 20 square inches? Is it an average slice? That would provide some interesting mathematics....measuring all of them, totalling the combined area, dividing by the number of slices...and what if part of the loaf had already been eaten? I am not as young as I once was. Maybe I am losing my mental faculties but this is just too much for me.0
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If I knew what "Granola" was I'd respond. Oh?0
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Ranch dressing and peanut butter
Luckily i found pb2 and fat free ranch though0 -
This stuff makes me laugh! I buy the Kernel Sensations brand spray, and the serving size is a 1 second spray! Really?Popcorn spray and seasoning... I don't care through still use it. Love the stuff! X0 -
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.
I'm sure someone else also said this but most Chinese people don't regularly eat the type of Chinese food most of us buy! Homemade is very different!0 -
I was gifted some Fairytale brownie. They are kind of tasty, but each (small) individually wrapped brownie is 2 servings! WTF?? I have cut each brownie in fours and have just one of those pieces on the days I eat some.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.
Tha'ts funny!
.. Well, I just put one packet into twice as much water... so in essence, I drink half a packet lol
But wouldn't that still be a whole packet? just with a lot more water? are you drinking it all at once? and wow, that's a big bottle of water to have to carry around. Hello, bathroom!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.
It's not "bad for you," just the portions are too big is all.
Actually- much of it is really bad for you. Some of their most popular items are deep fried. Look up the calories on Panda Express items- Bejing beef is 560 calories (5.4 oz) vs.. Broccoli Beef 150 calories (5.4 oz- its almost all broccoli anyway) and Pepper chicken 200 calories (6 oz serving).
* Side note- no one trying to lose weight should be going to any buffet- especially chinese food0 -
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.
Actually- much of it is really bad for you. Some of their most popular items are deep fried. Look up the calories on Panda Express items- Bejing beef is 560 calories (5.4 oz) vs.. Broccoli Beef 150 calories (5.4 oz- its almost all broccoli anyway) and Pepper chicken 200 calories (6 oz serving).
* Side note- no one trying to lose weight should be going to any buffet- especially chinese food
Eek- sweet and sour chicken (my kids favorite) is 380 calories- for 2 oz!!!
Best bet if you love chinese food, do it yourself, make your own stirfry, get lean meats, tons of veggies, brown rice, and watch the sauces (most are so loaded with sodium its horrible).0 -
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.
OH YEAH! Also I love the "ABOUT" 2 servings... lol what does this mean? give or take a serving?-
I learned when they say ABOUT it is actually over the majority of the time, when most people would think it is a little less than 2. Most things I have measured that say this are over the about "x" number. So ridiculous!0 -
I found that grain containing items have the most calories and are the least filling for me. I try hard to stay away from them on principal. Per the photo of 100 calories, I would rather have just a couple of those celery sticks and be full than the slice of bread, granola or rice and still be hungry.
I ate a pickle earlier. When I looked on the label it said calories = 0. YES!0 -
Awesome! I try to avoid these in any event. My downfall is cheese and bakery! At least I'm on the right track now and that includes watching labels like crazy.0 -
I had a similar experience the other day when I had a fair amount of calories left and some friends were going out for "fall treats". I got an Affy Tapple because it said 70 calories on the label... That's for a half an apple! How do you eat half a caramel apple???0
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morale of the story- we're all learning why even understanding what to eat can be so hard!
Here is what I have learned about my own personal weight loss- avoid processed everything as best you can. Shop the outside of the grocery store- always have a list- and be prepared, at least eventually to make your own meals.
Processed foods have so much garbage in them, even if its not just the calories, its packaged, it may be convenient but it doesn't make it healthy. Whole food, good food!!!!
Also once you can give up certain foods, trying to eat them later is awful- I can't touch canned soups anymore- the sodium is so high I can't taste anything. Same thing with greasy deep fried stuff- I used to love it- now if I have any, I get sooooo sick0 -
Two Hershey's kisses are only 44 calories.0 -
Love me some spinach. Almost impossible to eat calories for the day when you throw spinach in there.0 -
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.
LOL. But I'm one of the crazy ones that can use 1 packet in a 1L bottle and think that it is still almost too sweet. ;-)0 -
I started making my own granola for this reason.0
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the little bottles of chocolate milk that say "servings in container: 2" I'm sorry, I'm not sharing my chocolate milk so stop making it say it's 2 servings!0
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And don't forget the sodium...I always have to watch how much sodium is in one serving. When I forget, my hands can swell up to more sausage like than they already are.
There are so many that laud the benefits of spinach, and I so want to like spinach but...ugh. Just can't!0 -
take a quarter cup and mix with various dried fruits as a snack.
I love this idea!0 -
I once had a dark chocolate bar that was pre-divided into 8 squares, however, one serving was 1/5 of the bar. :huh:0
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I love to read nutrition facts... I'm frequently amused by the information on them! This weekend I read the stats on a chocolate bar at Trader Joe's. It said a serving was 2/3 of the bar, and there were 2.5 servings per package (1 bar). HUH? Ok, I know I have the magical ability to read what I want to read, but I showed it to my husband and he saw it too! If 2/3 of the bar is a serving, wouldn't there be 1 1/3 servings per package?0
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I hear you all :laugh:
I wanted some peanuts and it read 145 calories for 25g, I though fair enough,
Measured 25g and I was like :huh: Am I supposed to only eat one tablespoon of this stuff , turns out a small handfull would be close to 400 calories :laugh:0 -
take a quarter cup and mix with various dried fruits as a snack.
I love this idea!
Be careful. A lot of died fruit has added sugar and just a little is a lot of calories.
It's better to mix it with yogurt or use as a salad topping.0 -
I love to read nutrition facts... I'm frequently amused by the information on them! This weekend I read the stats on a chocolate bar at Trader Joe's. It said a serving was 2/3 of the bar, and there were 2.5 servings per package (1 bar). HUH? Ok, I know I have the magical ability to read what I want to read, but I showed it to my husband and he saw it too! If 2/3 of the bar is a serving, wouldn't there be 1 1/3 servings per package?
Wouldn't it be 1.5 servings per package? 1 serving is 2/3 of the package. The remaining 1/3 of the package is 1/2 of 1 serving.
Either way, TJ got something wrong.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.
I cried laughing!!! with your post - you're awesome!!!0 -
for me, it's any dry pasta... so the serving sizes are "1/4 cup dry" - but if i'm cooking for myself and the rest of the family, without going Alton Brown and experimenting with the digital scale, how in the world does that translate to cooked???0
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I love to read nutrition facts... I'm frequently amused by the information on them! This weekend I read the stats on a chocolate bar at Trader Joe's. It said a serving was 2/3 of the bar, and there were 2.5 servings per package (1 bar). HUH? Ok, I know I have the magical ability to read what I want to read, but I showed it to my husband and he saw it too! If 2/3 of the bar is a serving, wouldn't there be 1 1/3 servings per package?
Wouldn't it be 1.5 servings per package? 1 serving is 2/3 of the package. The remaining 1/3 of the package is 1/2 of 1 serving.
Either way, TJ got something wrong.
You beat me to it, it would be 1.5 servings0
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