Most ridiculous serving size?

Keeblers Sandies Shortbread Cookies
Only 2 Cookies? Really? Gotta eat at least 4 or five as a serving.

But 2 Cookies is 160 cals!

Keeblers Sandies Shortbread Cookies
Only 2 Cookies? Really? Gotta eat at least 4 or five as a serving.

But 2 Cookies is 160 cals!

Mmmmm cookies. I LOVE those cookies. And I agree, 4-5 is a serving. Its like potato chips, you cannot eat just one or two.

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

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croutons....2 tbsp? should be pieces

I hate this - it makes no sense. I won't buy any of brand of croutons that doesn't list their servings in pieces.

All foods have a weight of the serving size as well (at least in the United States). Using this and a food scale is the easiest and most accurate way.

What kind of croutons are so even that counting pieces would be more accurate than using a tablespoon?

The 'obesity' epidemic as it is painted is not caused necessarily in my opinion by the people, but by those that provide the food. They don't provide quality or accurate information, and often package things in a way that we misconstrue how much is a serving. A bottle of soda for example...we may know by common knowledge now that a 20 OZ is 2.5 servings, but if when that size is marketed to the masses everywhere as an individual serving, it distorts the thought patterns. As many said, same with poptarts. If things were actually marketed to their correct proportions, and we were aware of what truly is an individual serving, I for one would much better understand what I am supposed to be eating on a daily basis as opposed to what I have been taught by food distributors.

But alas, we are the generations of the large drink and the double cheese burger, where more is better, and less is wholly inadequate.

Girl Scout Cookies. They should provide nutrition info for the sleeve, since that's what my fellow fatties and I want to eat anyway

AMEN!

Most chips. 13 chips won't cut it, I'm sorry.

For those frustrated with the dry vs cooked pasta, pasta typically swells when it's cooked. If you want just one serving, measure out the dry amount, and it should be the prepared measured amount when you are finished cooking. I don't usually make one serving of pasta (since I will be feeding my whole family). I just make it, and then measure the correct amount for myself.

Earlier this week I cooked a 1lb box of pasta (7 servings) and a jar of sauce (5 servings) to which I added chicken and other ingredients to extend. In the end, I decided that everything was 5 servings. So I measured cooked pasta then measured finished sauce, and just use 1/5 of each per serving. Simple and worked like a champ! I have roughly a pound of food per serving and it was less than 500 cals per serving! #Winning

This might be because there are rules for putting 0g of trans fat on packages. Per serving as long as the trans fat is below, I think it's .5 order to put on the package 0g of trans fat. Even though if you ate 2 servings, then you could be at 1 g of trans fat and not know it. It's something to do with that.

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.

Earlier this week I cooked a 1lb box of pasta (7 servings) and a jar of sauce (5 servings) to which I added chicken and other ingredients to extend. In the end, I decided that everything was 5 servings. So I measured cooked pasta then measured finished sauce, and just use 1/5 of each per serving. Simple and worked like a champ! I have roughly a pound of food per serving and it was less than 500 cals per serving! #Winning

I had to do this last night when I made spaghetti for my family. I box of pasta with 7 servings, plus 1 jar of sauce with 5 servings (can't they coordinate that?!) plus a pound of lean hamburger all in the recipe calculator, divide by 7 = 350 calories per serving. Looks great on paper, but how on earth are you supposed to divide a big dish of slippery food into sevenths? I did the best I could, but I venture the servings were rather unequal. I mean, come on. How are you supposed to measure an accurate serving, even with a kitchen scale, if they only give the information for the UNCOOKED product?! To get an accurate serving I'd have to measure and cook each serving individually. Not gonna happen.
I also can't stand odd serving sizes... 7?!? 5?! So much harder to divide something into odd numbered sections. They're killing me!

Trail mix (of any variety). How and why would I eat only 1/4 cup? Not happening.
Also, PASTA! Really, 2 oz. is a serving? It takes much more (even though I eat whole wheat) than that to fill me up.

How are you supposed to measure an accurate serving, even with a kitchen scale, if they only give the information for the UNCOOKED product?! To get an accurate serving I'd have to measure and cook each serving individually. Not gonna happen.

I learned this for my son who I have to count carbs for diabetes, but it works for calories, too.

You compute the calories for the whole box and prepare it. Say the entire box is 2000 calories, and weighs 1500g when cooked.

You then pull off a 437g serving of cooked pasta. 437/1500 = 29% of the box.
2000cal * 29% = 580 calories

Same idea holds for a full recipe with multiple ingredients.

2 friggin samoas for 160 calories. Who the hell eats TWO samoas?

2 Tablespoons of Peanut butter....SERIOUSLY?

Note sarcasm. And yes...I'd eat it straight out of the jar.

Looking at a box of cookies last night, one servicing size was 7 1/2 cookies...little, itty, bitty cookies (think animal cracker size). Who would just eat 1/2 a cookie.

Cereal is the one I can't do. I was one of those growing up that would use an old butter tub for a cereal bowl. 1 little cup as a serving size...can't do it.

YUP Cereal is a *kitten*! One cup! ONE! One freakin cup is supposed to do the trick?! NO! I REFUSE! Must..have..two..or..more..

Right! And I love how on the box and the commercials the people are eating an actual BOWL of cereal. Some cereals have the nerve to be 3/4 of a cup for a serving.