Most ridiculous serving size?

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  • thinkpositive92
    thinkpositive92 Posts: 111 Member
    I don't understand the huge hype over oreos?! They taste yuck!
  • mcibty
    mcibty Posts: 1,252 Member
    30g of cheese.

    DO YOU EVEN KNOW HOW MUCH 30g OF CHEESE IS? IT'S NOTHING.
  • mazdauk
    mazdauk Posts: 1,380 Member
    30g of cheese.

    DO YOU EVEN KNOW HOW MUCH 30g OF CHEESE IS? IT'S NOTHING.

    30g is the bit you cut off because you've cut too big a bit for the recipe. And therefore it has no calories:wink: I so love cheese I had to get low fat cheese, as its fine for sandwiches and cooking but not sufficiently delicious to hack off a lump in passing:laugh:
  • mrandolph69
    mrandolph69 Posts: 197 Member
    A round cake at Publix which lists a serving as 1/9th of the cake! Who the heck can cut a ROUND cake into 9 slices? After thinking about it, I finally figured out they were using the portion size from their rectangular sheet cakes which you can easily cut 3x3 and thus have 9 slices. Apparently, someone was too lazy to recalculate the portion size for 1/8th instead of 1/9th.
  • glenmchale
    glenmchale Posts: 1,307 Member
    any serving suggestion/size of pringles (sorry if its already been mentioned) is just pointless, its all or nothing, same goes for jelly belly jelly beans
  • BoxerBrawler
    BoxerBrawler Posts: 2,032 Member
    Cereal! Who can eat 1/4 cup of cereal, really? I certainly can't! So I don't eat it much... when I eat it I need a giant bowl of it! HAHA
  • mcibty
    mcibty Posts: 1,252 Member
    any serving suggestion/size of pringles (sorry if its already been mentioned) is just pointless, its all or nothing, same goes for jelly belly jelly beans

    One tube = One serving size as far as I'm concerned. And I ain't talking snack size.
  • glenmchale
    glenmchale Posts: 1,307 Member
    any serving suggestion/size of pringles (sorry if its already been mentioned) is just pointless, its all or nothing, same goes for jelly belly jelly beans

    One tube = One serving size as far as I'm concerned. And I ain't talking snack size.

    true dat
  • freemystery
    freemystery Posts: 184 Member
    Cereal! Who can eat 1/4 cup of cereal, really? I certainly can't! So I don't eat it much... when I eat it I need a giant bowl of it! HAHA

    Oh gosh yes THIS! When you finally get that scale and you're like YES I'm going to weigh this and log this, 1 serving is...

    ...and there's this sad spoonful of cereal and a splash of milk adrift in the big empty bowl.
    And you think hmm well there must be some mistake, maybe I didn't read it right.

    But nah, that's what the cereal guys are trying to say, they probably don't believe that this is a reasonable portion for an adult any more than we do.

    :grumble:
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    To be fair, only granola is 1/4 cup a serving. Normal cereal is 3/4 cup or 1 cup (although if you weigh it, it's often less than that).
  • PayneAS
    PayneAS Posts: 669 Member
    I eat Cheerios and using my scale to weigh out 28g is a WHOLE lot of cereal (to me at least) and much more than a "1 cup" serving. So maybe all these folks freaking out about cereal need to start actually weighing it or maybe I'm just weird in thinking that 28g is a huge serving.

    The thread has been entirely entertaining to re-read though. Thus the necro.
  • Point202
    Point202 Posts: 55 Member
    Bookmarking to read the original thread later. I'm reading at work and am cracking up so loud I'm embarrassing myself!

    Related to this - Now that I'm measuring and counting, it is a daily affair for me to measure out one serving of something, see how small it is, and exclaim "no wonder I'm fat."
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    I eat Cheerios and using my scale to weigh out 28g is a WHOLE lot of cereal (to me at least) and much more than a "1 cup" serving. So maybe all these folks freaking out about cereal need to start actually weighing it or maybe I'm just weird in thinking that 28g is a huge serving.

    The thread has been entirely entertaining to re-read though. Thus the necro.

    No way. I just tried - a serving is 3/4 of a cup, and that was pretty dead on.
  • onefortyone
    onefortyone Posts: 531 Member
    I don't know if it's the same in America, but when I was in England I'd drink those plastic bottles of coke, y'know, with lunch or something. And once I actually read the side and one bottle counts as two servings?? Are you kidding me? Who would you share that with? Or would you be expected to put the bottle away and have flat coke the next day? Come on!

    Also, anything that serves 0.5 of a person. Like servings per container: 3.5. Just a giant pet peeve.
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    I bought some prepackaged kugel today. Love the stuff, and that brand doesn't have preservatives in it. It's the size of a normal one person packaged meal. Except it has 8 servings :sad: I bought it anyway, will try and make it last. It's kinda sad when you eat 1/4 of it and it ends up being 340 calories though.
  • missjones513
    missjones513 Posts: 345 Member
    Smart Ones sundaes. I need the people at Smart Ones to make those a little bit bigger.
  • tniemiec1
    tniemiec1 Posts: 8
    mine is peanut butter...a serving size = 2 tbsp! which is not as much as what people think. I love peanut butter or almond butter and this just isn't right...
  • rm33064
    rm33064 Posts: 270 Member
    I was looking at my cooking spray and the serving size was 1/4 of a second. Has to be the most ridiculous ever, on so many levels.
  • rm33064
    rm33064 Posts: 270 Member
    I eat Cheerios and using my scale to weigh out 28g is a WHOLE lot of cereal (to me at least) and much more than a "1 cup" serving. So maybe all these folks freaking out about cereal need to start actually weighing it or maybe I'm just weird in thinking that 28g is a huge serving.

    The thread has been entirely entertaining to re-read though. Thus the necro.

    You're weird. 28g is like one bite. I can eat 5 servings in one bowl. easy. In fact I ate like 3 last night as a snack. One serving is stupid.

    28 grams is 1 ounce. You must have meant 280g? I hope...
  • MBrothers22
    MBrothers22 Posts: 323 Member
    I eat Cheerios and using my scale to weigh out 28g is a WHOLE lot of cereal (to me at least) and much more than a "1 cup" serving. So maybe all these folks freaking out about cereal need to start actually weighing it or maybe I'm just weird in thinking that 28g is a huge serving.

    The thread has been entirely entertaining to re-read though. Thus the necro.

    If I have cereal I eat 2 servings and one cup of milk. Cocoa puffs is 100 cal per serving (27g) and 1/2% milk is 90 calories for 1 cup. 290 is pretty low if you ask me for a breakfast.

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