Stop the madness!

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helehcim
helehcim Posts: 20
edited January 26 in Chit-Chat
I enter a lot of recipes in MFP to track my calories, and my husbands. Tonight I just wanted to find sugar, regular plain old generic sugar. Do you know how many people felt the need to enter their OWN sugar in the list of foods? Way too many! Seriously, your sugar is not different from other people's granulated sugar! I guarantee you, Publix, Great Value, Wegmans, Costco - they're all just granulated sugar with the same calories and carbs! Please, for the love of all that is holy stop entering a food when it's right there!!! Unless you've got Sugar In The Raw, or that brown crystal stuff I like in my coffee, ok maybe that's different. But if its just the plain old ordinary sugar - JUST PICK ONE don't add another one!

Oh, and how many people need to enter "Romaine Lettuce" . Seriously? I haven't looked into the difference between and "inner leaf" and an "outer leaf" but it's probably not enough to push me over calories. I'm using real sugar, after all (see above)

Why do we do this!
It's bad enough I have to remember how many tablespoons in a cup because the recipe thingy doesn't have measures you'd use when cooking for four, I've kind of accepted that. Can we all agree to stop adding things that are already in there??

:) I feel better now. Thank you for reading my senseless rant. Feel free to add your own.

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  • DalekBrittany
    DalekBrittany Posts: 1,748 Member
    Can I rant about why I just read that whole thing?
  • helehcim
    helehcim Posts: 20
    Sure, as long as i can rant about people not taking a joke.
  • DalekBrittany
    DalekBrittany Posts: 1,748 Member
    Touche. Carry on.
  • DorisInTheDena
    DorisInTheDena Posts: 151 Member
    I agree??:flowerforyou:
  • etoiles_argentees
    etoiles_argentees Posts: 2,827 Member
    Stop the madness? :indifferent:
  • BostonStrong617
    BostonStrong617 Posts: 117 Member
    I added an entry for a packet of Dunkin Donuts sugar, lol oops.
  • RichOC
    RichOC Posts: 243 Member
    I just added 'Sunlight - Rays of Sun' for the people who try to live on nothing but water and sunlight. But now you got me thinking, how many other people are going to add their sunlight? Will there be different brands? Will this cause confusion for future Breatharians?
  • jenilla1
    jenilla1 Posts: 11,118 Member
    Yes, OP. It's madness. So much crap to wade through. And then you have to double-check each one, since half the entries are crazy with inaccuracy. I wish all the garbage entries went to the bottom of the stack and the accurate ones (that have been reviewed and confirmed 400 times) would float to the top. It would speed things up a bit. :explode:
  • AllTehBeers
    AllTehBeers Posts: 5,030 Member
    TL;DR

    Mmmm sugar

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  • gonnamakeanewaccount
    gonnamakeanewaccount Posts: 642 Member
    :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
  • StinkyWinkies
    StinkyWinkies Posts: 603 Member
    *I* think my sugar is completely different from everyone else's...it's made from beets not canes (pun, yes, oh yes, pun intended)
  • PhattiPhat
    PhattiPhat Posts: 349 Member
    *I* think my sugar is completely different from everyone else's...it's made from beets not canes (pun, yes, oh yes, pun intended)

    I don't get it.
  • PoopieMonster
    PoopieMonster Posts: 295 Member
    Life is so hard :sad:
  • Ramberta
    Ramberta Posts: 1,312 Member
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    You're right, OP. We shouldn't have a food database that allows us to add in our own food. Because having to scroll down through everyone else's entries wastes valuable seconds of our precious lives that would otherwise be spent on vital, necessary actions. Like posting long rants on the forums.

    :tongue:
  • Sublimely_Self_Righteous
    Sublimely_Self_Righteous Posts: 429
    :( I'm sorry. Professional help is available to help you get past this difficult time in your life.
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