We are pleased to announce that on March 4, 2025, an updated Rich Text Editor will be introduced in the MyFitnessPal Community. To learn more about the upcoming changes, please click here. We look forward to sharing this new feature with you!

Stupid Serving Size

124

Replies

  • lmhbuss
    lmhbuss Posts: 282 Member
    Girl Scout Tagalongs: 2 cookies...

    2 cookies? LOL That's called "just getting started!"

    This. Totally this. There are two boxes in my kitchen right now just mocking me....
  • Slacker16
    Slacker16 Posts: 1,184 Member
    ANY frozen entree or prepackaged meal, snack, chips, etc.

    My serving size is always, always 1 container. Doesn't matter what's in it or how many calories. If it's in the bag or box, I eat it.
    Pretty much this. If I cook a meal myself, portion control works fine. If it comes out of a bag, the bag is the portion. I can _sometimes_ stop halfway through a family-sized Doritos bag...
    Because we can't just do the math ourselves??
    Most people either can't or don't, actually.
  • FinallyDoingMe
    FinallyDoingMe Posts: 84 Member
    Ice Cream and Cereal for me. I mean who in the world eats only 1/4 cup ice cream or 3/4 cup cereal? It's just NOT feasible :huh:
  • 1stday13
    1stday13 Posts: 433 Member
    Wine.
    You mean 1 serving Isn't "1 bottle'????:sad:
  • ElizabethFuller
    ElizabethFuller Posts: 352 Member
    Almonds, I bought a "single serving" pack of almonds and when I read the (empty) packet it turned out to be two servings. My big one is granola. I've stopped eating it all together, once I weighed it on scales I found that my perfectly reasonable serving size was three times the recommended amount. I decided that I really shouldn't eat half my calories for breakfast so, for the time being at least, it's off the menu.:sad:
  • jlshea
    jlshea Posts: 494 Member
    Poptarts. They come 2 in the little silver package yet the serving size is ONE pastry. Oookay.
  • mccindy72
    mccindy72 Posts: 7,001 Member
    granola. 1/4 cup? that's like a little sprinkle.
  • Sharon5913
    Sharon5913 Posts: 134 Member
    Nutella, dear sweet Jesus that stuff is evil... The whole jar? not a problem.

    Ice cream... 1/2 cup? really? um, NO. Must. Have. More.

    Wine- yep, it's the BOTTLE for me!! :blushing:
  • RockWarrior84
    RockWarrior84 Posts: 840 Member
    soda.....a can or bottle is a serving not 2.5 servings
  • ccrdragon
    ccrdragon Posts: 3,375 Member
    Healthy Choice Devil's Food Cookies - what do you mean 1 package isn't one serving?!?!?!?!
  • _Calypso_
    _Calypso_ Posts: 1,074 Member
    Almonds - really- 10?

    'What kind of almonds are you eating? :tongue: I have some at my desk - Serving size 28 nuts = 160 cal (Blue Diamond in the can)
    I count out 28 and put the can away. My co-workers think I'm insane. LOL
  • wyattj99
    wyattj99 Posts: 454 Member
    Frozen pizza
  • serindipte
    serindipte Posts: 1,557 Member
    Pop Tarts - 1 pastry.

    If the serving is ONE pastry why do they put TWO in a package?!! Trickery

    I was JUST about to say this! What am I supposed to do with the other one? I'm a single lady with nobody to share my pop tarts with :sad:

    Stick it in a ziploc for tomorrow?
  • ginamisa
    ginamisa Posts: 21 Member
    1 Oz of Cheese.... or 1/2 cup of rice.... or an oz of meat. Wow... yep 4 oz of wine... hmmm who does that... :-(
  • 4myB
    4myB Posts: 16 Member
    I just measured out 15g of chocolate chips. Wow. Just wow.

    And cheese, 1oz. is so sad.
  • sprintto50
    sprintto50 Posts: 410 Member
    Soup or any other canned food where there are not an even number of serving sizes. Who is the one who gets the extra 40mls in a can of soup that is 540mls but the serving size is 250mls? If I split the can into two bowls, each one is 1.08 servings?
  • Coltsatc
    Coltsatc Posts: 36
    Thin Mint Girl Scout cookies - 4 cookies? Ya right....
  • pinksmama
    pinksmama Posts: 40
    1/8 of the pizza. Cause yea, that's why I am going to eat pizza.. :yawn:
  • beckyboop712
    beckyboop712 Posts: 383 Member
    Cereal - most are 3/4 of a cup. At a minimum I do 1 cup. Though sometimes *coughtodaycough* I do two cups haha

    I fill up my bowl. I just guesstimate (bad idea I know) that it's about 2 cups. I should just stay away from cereal...it always makes me hungrier.
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    I don't let a package dictate what my serving is going to be...it just helps with the math.
  • _Calypso_
    _Calypso_ Posts: 1,074 Member
    Wine.
    You mean 1 serving Isn't "1 bottle'????:sad:

    It is for me. LOL :drinker:

    4oz?? thats just silly.
  • softncudly
    softncudly Posts: 722 Member
    1/2 of a small can of green beans/green peas/ corn etc.
  • Rainboots80
    Rainboots80 Posts: 218 Member
    Taco sauce- 1 tablespoon just isn't enough!
  • CoffeeBugg
    CoffeeBugg Posts: 75 Member
    Good news peeps!!! The FDA is going to change the serving sizes from "mere morsel" to "what we actually eat"... so no more 2.5 servings in a 20 oz of soda... no more 2 tagalongs... or half a candy bar... ;)


    Because we can't just do the math ourselves??

    Perhaps the same reason bottles of lighter fluid have a flammable warning.
  • Donald_Dozier_50
    Donald_Dozier_50 Posts: 395 Member
    Good news peeps!!! The FDA is going to change the serving sizes from "mere morsel" to "what we actually eat"... so no more 2.5 servings in a 20 oz of soda... no more 2 tagalongs... or half a candy bar... ;)


    Because we can't just do the math ourselves??

    Perhaps the same reason bottles of lighter fluid have a flammable warning.

    Actually the FDA does not put nutrition labels on anything, the manufacturers do, funded by PEOPLE who purchase their products. This "good news" is expected to cost consumers 2 billion dollars. Neither the government nor business pays for anything, they simply pass the added cost to YOU AND ME.
  • CoffeeBugg
    CoffeeBugg Posts: 75 Member
    Sliced bread the lists 1 slice as a serving size.
  • salembambi
    salembambi Posts: 5,585 Member
    cashews---whatever the serving size is its not happening
  • WendyTerry420
    WendyTerry420 Posts: 13,274 Member
    cashews---whatever the serving size is its not happening

    :drinker:
  • WendyTerry420
    WendyTerry420 Posts: 13,274 Member
    Good news peeps!!! The FDA is going to change the serving sizes from "mere morsel" to "what we actually eat"... so no more 2.5 servings in a 20 oz of soda... no more 2 tagalongs... or half a candy bar... ;)


    Because we can't just do the math ourselves??

    Perhaps the same reason bottles of lighter fluid have a flammable warning.

    im-not-saying-lets-kill-all-the-stupid-people.png
  • CallMeCupcakeDammit
    CallMeCupcakeDammit Posts: 9,377 Member
    Pop Tarts - 1 pastry.

    If the serving is ONE pastry why do they put TWO in a package?!! Trickery

    I was JUST about to say this! What am I supposed to do with the other one? I'm a single lady with nobody to share my pop tarts with :sad:

    Stick it in a ziploc for tomorrow?

    That's what I do! I put the baggie in the box before I've even eaten the first one, so it's there and I have no excuse.
This discussion has been closed.

Categories