Most ridiculous serving size?

I think 30g of cereal is ridiculous lol. I'm used to a lovely big bowl of cereal for brekkie and this 30g is killing me

I gotta agree on the cereal serving sizes - they are a joke. The ones I've seen often say LESS than a cup (I've seen many "3/4 cup serving". The only brand that gives a decent serving size is probably Kashi GoLean. I'd rather eat 200 calories and be full than eat 80 and be hungry in 30 minutes!

Had it wrrrroooooong for yeeeeeaaarrsss... I always thought the serving size went as follows (cereal+bowl+spoon+milk=fun time)
A box would last me two days MAYBE 3.

May I make one small change?

Cereal+largest bowl in the house+spoon+milk=fun time

I can't even imagine how much cereal contributed to my weight gain lol

Cottage cheese with sweet chilli dip and 5 crakers.
Its one of those made to eat on the go thing.
2.5 serving per container. Its not something you cang share withnone else as u neede to doublt dip the cracker.

I made rice last night and thought I'd try the actual serving suggestion, which is 1/2 cup. I put it in my bowl and just looked at it and laughed. Then I put in another half cup and my additions to complete my meal. It fit into my macros so no problem there. I just wonder who the hell comes up with these portion sizes.

I guess if you're using the rice as a side...it might make sense. But my meal was kind of a deconstructed fried rice, so it was the centerpiece of the dish.

Pop Tarts. 2 come in the pack. Serving size is 1. What sane person eats pop tarts?

Fixed that typo for you.

^^ this - have to agree :bigsmile:

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.

Haha...a butter bowl is what I used for cereal too as a kid....now I don't eat it at all

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, so, so, THIS!!! And the pop tart thing the other guy said. Why IS there two in there if you're only supposed to eat one?

HAHA omg. My bf thought I was nuts when I put the lonely poptart in a plastic bag for another day. He's like "They wouldn't be packaged IN TWOS in a serving was ONE.." and then he looked at the box. LOL

Anything packaged in a size that means there are not an even number of servings in the packet, or where more than one serving of something that goes stale fast eg. oatcakes - seven in a pack, but a serving is 3 - are packaged in the same air-tight package, so that eating the recommended serving means wasting the rest or finding an airtight way to store. Or things like drinks where a single serving size is implicitly a single bottle, yet the said bottle contains more than one serving.

I don't have any that come to mind, although when I used to eat cereal the serving sizes always seemed very small.
Ben and Jerry's serving sizes are too small. I just want the whole tub haha.

What annoys me is when they list calories by weight, but that weight isn't one serving. Muller yogurts are the worst. They do all they calories by 100g but the yogurts tend to be 150-190g (if not more.) At a quick glance some seem OK, 150 cals, 12-15g of sugar....then you realise that's only half a serving. It's not like they intend for that 100g to be one serving either. These are individual yogurts, and don't say "1 serving (100g)", just "100g."
Also ice cream/frozen yogurt servings given in ml and not grams O_O

I can't stand the microwavable containers of soup that supposedly contain two servings. They just baffle me. If the container is supposed to be the bowl you eat from, who is splitting that with someone else?

This too! I forgot about those!

And, if for some crazy reason you really do only eat the one serving, you can't reheat up the rest in the bowl (says so on the container!) that it came in!

Some turkey burgers at Wegmans. 4oz raw is 160 calories, 3oz cooked 120. It's supposed to be the same patty.

I can't stand the microwavable containers of soup that supposedly contain two servings. They just baffle me. If the container is supposed to be the bowl you eat from, who is splitting that with someone else?

This too! I forgot about those!

And, if for some crazy reason you really do only eat the one serving, you can't reheat up the rest in the bowl (says so on the container!) that it came in!

My solution for this - pour the half you're going to eat into a normal bowl, and microwave with a plate on top. The second half can be heated in the container, as long as you haven't already heated it once before.

Popcorn and rice. Oh and noodles. It's the whole dry vs. cooked debacle. By the time I think I've figured out how much I can eat, I give up and throw the box back in the pantry. Not worth it.

YES!

Pop Tarts. 2 come in the pack. Serving size is 1. Who eats just 1 pop tart?

I eat just one poptart... and I barely eat that, because who eats the crusts of poptarts? eww. haha.