Most ridiculous serving size?

Here's what I do. Use a digital food scale. Place one slice of bread and the butter knife on it and power on, mine will auto-tare and read 0mg. Use the knife to get some PB and place back on the bread. Adjust (add/remove) until you read the desired serving size (mine is 32g). Although its a lot less than I used to use (probably was 2.5 servings), it's still a surprisingly decent amount for a slice of bread.
I do the same with jam, except I do that before the PB.

Enjoy!

I do the reverse. I put the jar of PB on the scale and tare it. Then I use the knife to take out / add back until the scale shows -32g.

popcorn... popped calories and unpopped calories... who eats popcorn un popped why torture me with more numbers?? just tell me whats in the whole bag of popcorn !! im not going to measure it into cups after i pop it either... rediculous..

hahahahah!!!! PAM WINS!!! 1/3 second spray...

if ice cream calories are measured by the cup does it still count as one cup if you smash the whole container into one cup?

Can't fault your logic.... I stumbled across a chardonnay last night with the serving being '1 glass'
Bottles are made of glass right... best 200 calories I spent all day

Here's what I do. Use a digital food scale. Place one slice of bread and the butter knife on it and power on, mine will auto-tare and read 0mg. Use the knife to get some PB and place back on the bread. Adjust (add/remove) until you read the desired serving size (mine is 32g). Although its a lot less than I used to use (probably was 2.5 servings), it's still a surprisingly decent amount for a slice of bread.
I do the same with jam, except I do that before the PB.

Enjoy!

I do the reverse. I put the jar of PB on the scale and tare it. Then I use the knife to take out / add back until the scale shows -32g.

and ^this is why hubby doesn't want me to get a food scale, he says it can only become obsessive and I'll end up shutting myself off from people. Just me and my food scale in a room alone.

I giggled at some of the ridiculously small serving sizes you guys came across (especially the Pam spray! lol).

In all seriousness, the stuff that completely screwed me when I started trying to eat right was following the serving sizes on pasta!! It said "Serving size - 125g". The first time I served it up I thought "Holy cow that's a shedload of pasta" but I served it anyway because that's what the packet said to eat (it was actually about 1/3 more than I would have served us pre-lifestyle change). It wasn't until my partner said "no, I can't eat that much" and tipped half of it back into the pot that I started to think maybe it was a stupid size but I really wanted to have faith in the serving sizes on the packets! I have since learned that it's totally ok to make 125g of pasta for the TWO of us and it's now only 175-250 cals each (depending on the type of pasta and whether it's fresh or not) instead of up to 500 calories each!

I'm Norwegian, and truly puzzled over the whole "serving size" thing - more and more label their products per 100 grams and for that I'm thankful. Why call it a "serving" in the first place? I can have seconds or thirds, no problem, but "one serving equals not enough for anything useful" is just.... crazy - and definitely not very helpful. Probably just the manufacturers' way of selling a product that seemingly is healthy, low-fat or whatever. I like the gram/desiliter approach when it's possible to estimate. I try to use "cups" for measuring pasta, that is an understandable approach (though 1 cup of pasta is still.. tiny...)

I'm basically puzzled over serving sizes in general (I rarely have ONE serving), beginning to learn the oz-world and make do with a calculator if need be. Shouldn't be necessery but still. One thing I really don't understand:

Net carbs

What is that, anyways???

my coworker bought scooby-doo gummies, and my other coworker and I decided to read the label --- 1 serving was 8 gummies for 80 calories. that's 10 calories for a tiny little waxy nugget for sugar with a weird after-taste! She asked if we wanted some . . . we declined.

I don't know about serving sizes but I have an irrational hatred of any container that has fractional servings. Servings per container - 2.5. WTF?

"How many servings shall we put in a container? Two or three? Oh, *kitten* it, let's just split the difference and call it two and a half."

So if it's just me and the wife, we have to store or throw half a serving, or over-eat.
If it's me, the wife and our daughter, we get stiffed on the servings, or have to open two packets and store/throw two servings.
If my step-son is visiting, we have to open two packets, and store or throw a serving.

So this is exactly what I was going to say. Two is optimal because I can split those things with someone. Three is okay, because then I just eat 1.5 servings and call it good. 2.5 is just silly.

In new Zealand everything has to have nutritional info per 100g as well as the manufacturers arbitrary serving size.

This is slightly off topic for this thread, but some of the serving sizes that users have entered for nutrition information on this site are ridiculous in a very BAD way.

For example, for Humm brand hummus, the serving is listed (in more than one entry) as "1/3 cup (15 grams)" . . . . . . well, the 15 grams is correct, but that's for 2 Tbsp.

So if anyone isn't actually fact-checking on the label, and is measuring by volume, they are getting over 2.5 servings and counting it as one -- on a relatively high fat/high calorie food.

I've noticed this, but I believe it's some problem with the entry settings for the Data base.

If you have a food like peanut butter, on the jar it says -serving size 32g / 2Tbsp.

If this is input into the Data base as - serving size= 32g (equal to 2Tbsp), and then you recall the Peanut butter to enter into your days food the drop down choices for serving size may be

32g (equal to 2Tbsp)
1g (equal to 2Tbsp)

The Data Base only converts and calculates the first figure given not anything in the brackets. So '2Tbsp' stays the same no matter what weight is entered/eaten.
Confusion as it is not always clear if the 2Tbsp equals 32g or 1g, etc

I need to know who just eats half of the brick of ramen?? If I'm going to embalm myself with salt and carbs, I'm going big. I"m eating the WHOLE brick.

For the record, I actually only eat half a brick of ramen, unless I'm eating it dry. I just can't eat that much pasta at one time...I'll have half for lunch and half for dinner.


I hate anything that a serving size isn't "x peice/s" if like bread, "x whole cups" like cereal, or "1 container" like a bottle of juice...canned food being all "2.25 servings per can" ugh
Or anything measured in teaspoons... or things like doritos... 11 chips? no. if I'm eating doritos I'm eating more than 11 because I don't get them often enough for that. Haha.

Quorn tikka masala ready meal. 1/2 a pack is a serving. Who eats half a ready meal?

I wouldn't be surprised if the next bottle is measured in fathoms...or fortnights? Leagues! Shakes of a badger's tail.

I LOL'd at this. :laugh:

PAM cooking spray for the win!!!!



1/3 second spray? really? WTF?

I think I read some woman sued them over this. The calories were low enough that they could put "0" per serving, so she was spraying a crapload of it into her pans, but when you use a bunch of it there ARE actually calories. She sued for false advertising. I think she won it.