Serving size confusion...

quickentree
quickentree Posts: 3 Member
edited November 25 in Health and Weight Loss
Okay so. I've used a food scale for about a year now. It's gotten me through 70 pounds of weight loss, so I kind of trust that it's accurate. I've checked it against other sources a couple times and it does appear to be.

But I've run into an issue recently. I've started eating the Complete Cookies from Lenny & Larry. They say a serving size is 2 oz, and there are 2 per cookie. I weighed one one day out of curiosity, and my scale says a half of a cookie is 1 oz. I've done it a few times since, and every time, it has said it's 1 oz.

So I'm not sure what to go by. Do I go with the packaging or my scale? Is it even possible for the package to be so wrong?

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  • arditarose
    arditarose Posts: 15,573 Member
    Dang those cookies. They don't fit in my goal and I get mad at them every time I pick them up!

    So the package has two cookies, right? But each cookie is two servings, so there are 4 in the package? For some reason I thought that there were two servings total.
  • quickentree
    quickentree Posts: 3 Member
    arditarose wrote: »
    Dang those cookies. They don't fit in my goal and I get mad at them every time I pick them up!

    So the package has two cookies, right? But each cookie is two servings, so there are 4 in the package? For some reason I thought that there were two servings total.

    Guhhh, I know!! They're such frustrating little (or huge) things.

    Do your packages have two cookies in them? Mine have only ever had one. Unless I'm misunderstanding something.
  • arditarose
    arditarose Posts: 15,573 Member
    The calories are for half of the cookie then. Your scale measures a cookie at 2 oz. What's confusing? There's two servings in a cookie
  • quickentree
    quickentree Posts: 3 Member
    edited October 2015
    arditarose wrote: »
    The calories are for half of the cookie then. Your scale measures a cookie at 2 oz. What's confusing? There's two servings in a cookie

    It says a serving size is 2 ounces, and that there are 2 servings per package. My packages only have 1 cookie in them, and that 1 cookie is 2 ounces. So it only has one serving in it, not two, if my scale is correct. Im pretty sure its saying 1 cookie is 4 oz, not 2 oz. Does that make sense? Maybe I sound like an idiot lol :s
  • arditarose
    arditarose Posts: 15,573 Member
    quickentree wrote: »
    arditarose wrote: »
    The calories are for half of the cookie then. Your scale measures a cookie at 2 oz. What's confusing? There's two servings in a cookie

    It says a serving size is 2 ounces, and that there are 2 servings per package. My packages only have 1 cookie in them, and that 1 cookie is 2 ounces. So it only has one serving in it, not two, if my scale is correct. Does that make sense? Maybe I sound like an idiot lol

    lol. Crap. I don't know then.

    And I actually can't remember if I see packages with two cookies in them or not. I could be making that up. So I am no help.

    I just know that I wasn't being careful the other week and started chomping down on one of the brownies thinking the whole thing was "x" amount of calories, even though I have read those packages so many times and have seen they have two servings in them. Screwed my day.
  • BurnWithBarn2015
    BurnWithBarn2015 Posts: 1,026 Member
    yes one cookie of Lenny & Larry's is TWO servings!

    i had them...and looked it up too.
    Delicious cookie but indeed 2 servings a cookie


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  • BurnWithBarn2015
    BurnWithBarn2015 Posts: 1,026 Member
    Here some others who complain about the misleading serving sizes

    http://reviews.bodybuilding.com/Lenny_and_Larrys/The_Complete_Cookie/


    Another good reason to always weigh your food ;)


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  • kellyjellybellyjelly
    kellyjellybellyjelly Posts: 9,480 Member
    edited October 2015
    I'm usually a fatty, & eat the whole cookie.

    The best that I've tried so far in order are:

    1. Snickerdoodle
    2. White Chocolate Macadamia
    3. Lemon Poppyseed
    4. Pumpkin
  • Azuriaz
    Azuriaz Posts: 785 Member
    Unless it's the size of a full pancake (not those silver dollar ones, a real pancake) a cookie is not two servings. Manufacturers can get bent.
  • Liftng4Lis
    Liftng4Lis Posts: 15,151 Member
    Never heard of these, but follow the packaging. It says 2 servings per cookie, therefore a half a cookie is 1 serving.
  • cerise_noir
    cerise_noir Posts: 5,468 Member
    Azuriaz wrote: »
    Unless it's the size of a full pancake (not those silver dollar ones, a real pancake) a cookie is not two servings. Manufacturers can get bent.
    This. :smiley:

    Many times, I have measured something and the weight is higher for a serving than the package states. Liar manufacturers bs-ing us.

  • MrsSylvie
    MrsSylvie Posts: 301 Member
    i would go by your scale if everything else is getting weight right on it!
    those cookies are suppose to be 4oz each, so one seving, half a cookie, would be 2oz.
    did you weight the whole cookie first? hard to believe the other half of your cookie would be 3oz though so it sounds like you may of gotten a batch of mis-made cookies to me. i would contact manufacturer, give them lot number and tell them problem, they may send you some freebies.
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