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    • Posts: 7,492 Member
      antdelsa wrote: »
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      3/4 cup ... why?!?! I don't eat it often either but that blew my mind when i realized the actual serving size.. it's a bit crazy considering how bad things can get out of control really quickly with a bowl of cereal ..3/4 cup, no i want a bowl of cereal lol not whats floating in the milk when I'm nearly done

      yep cereal is an eye opener.
    • Posts: 9,150 Member
      Cereal and Oven Chips. Horrendous estimates of both before I started weighing, most other stuff I'm pretty good at eyeballing.
    • Posts: 317 Member
      Peanut butter, ice cream, and cereal. I want to punch whatever *kitten* decided 1/2 cup of cereal or ice cream is anywhere close to what a normal human being would eat as a serving.
    • Posts: 1,306 Member
      mudonthetires856 wrote: »
      Crazy serving sizes sometimes. Pickles. I love pickles but was flabbergasted at the serving size. 3/4's of a spear. What?!? Who eats 3/4's of a spear? No sense.

      I hate pickles....but, that makes me chuckle too. Those kind of marketers should be jailed along with those people who design the heavy plastic packaging that's almost impossible to open (and can cut you if you're not careful).

      3/4 of spear?!
    • Posts: 11,751 Member
      antdelsa wrote: »
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      3/4 cup ... why?!?! I don't eat it often either but that blew my mind when i realized the actual serving size.. it's a bit crazy considering how bad things can get out of control really quickly with a bowl of cereal ..3/4 cup, no i want a bowl of cereal lol not whats floating in the milk when I'm nearly done

      3/4 cup seems like heaven after you weigh it and realise "3/4 cup" is a piddly little spoon full.
    • Posts: 11,751 Member
      seska422 wrote: »
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      The sweet potato is washed and ready to microwave.

      In the plastic? We don't have those here... Not that I have a microwave anymore, but I never used to wrap potatoes to microwave them!
    • Posts: 3,217 Member
      edited April 2017
      livingleanlivingclean wrote: »
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      In the plastic? We don't have those here... Not that I have a microwave anymore, but I never used to wrap potatoes to microwave them!

      You can't just grab some plastic wrap and do it yourself. The company shrink-wraps the potato in such a way that it facilitates microwaving. I've only bought them a couple of times because (at least with the ones I bought) "washed" was kind of a stretch. I did like the final texture of the sweet potato but I eat the skin and it still had grit in it. :s

      It's cheaper and cleaner to buy a bag, wash and poke holes in one, and wrap it in a wet paper towel if I want to microwave it. There's even a Potato button on my microwave with the time and power preset.
    • Posts: 853 Member
      Pasta, I regularly ate 1600 calories, before sauce, meat, cheese and you have to have bread!

      Now no bread, 300 calories of pasta. Nice homade sauce with wonderful meatballs and I know the calories.
    • Posts: 12 Member
      livingleanlivingclean wrote: »
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      In the plastic? We don't have those here... Not that I have a microwave anymore, but I never used to wrap potatoes to microwave them!
      livingleanlivingclean wrote: »
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      In the plastic? We don't have those here... Not that I have a microwave anymore, but I never used to wrap potatoes to microwave them!
      livingleanlivingclean wrote: »
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      In the plastic? We don't have those here... Not that I have a microwave anymore, but I never used to wrap potatoes to microwave them!

      It's a way for the manufacturers to charge a lot more for a single sweet potato.
    • Posts: 12 Member
      Forgive the multiple quotes. I'm on my phone. Also a bit technologically challenged
    • Posts: 67 Member
      Peanut butter as well. Had some dental stuff going on and couldnt chew, ate a whole jar of peanut butter in a day.

      Now its 16g and not more! :(
    • Posts: 2,171 Member
      cmtigger wrote: »
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      I eat large bowls of popcorn too, about 50-60g unpopped. It is a couple hundred calories. It's the oil or butter toppings that add to it.

      I think our definition of "large bowl" is different. I was routinely eating 2/3 of a cup (unpopped volume), and thought that was only 150 calories or so.

      I got fat eating popcorn with no butter or any other topppings.
    • Posts: 125 Member
      I recently noticed when buying meats on special, especially chicken, that I'm paying extra for water weight in the absorption pad and packaging. 6 pounds of bone in chicken breast, turns out to be 4 pounds outside the package, and then 2.5 pounds after cooking and pulling the meat off the bone.

      So $1.00 a pound really is about $2.40 a pound cooked or $1.50 uncooked with bone in. I've been testing out different brands and meats. I'm trying to find the most honest pricing at the best price.
    • Posts: 7,122 Member
      Quaker Harvest Crunch.

      Serving size 2/3 cup for 210 calories. Happily logged 1.5 servings as I'd pour a cup into my bowl.

      Then I got a scale. 1 cup was ~ 95 grams. Not the 67.5 grams I had been logging. So not the ~300 calories I had been logging, but almost 50% more.

      Finished the box and have not bought another one since.
    • Posts: 1,503 Member
      Daddy78230 wrote: »
      I recently noticed when buying meats on special, especially chicken, that I'm paying extra for water weight in the absorption pad and packaging. 6 pounds of bone in chicken breast, turns out to be 4 pounds outside the package, and then 2.5 pounds after cooking and pulling the meat off the bone.

      So $1.00 a pound really is about $2.40 a pound cooked or $1.50 uncooked with bone in. I've been testing out different brands and meats. I'm trying to find the most honest pricing at the best price.

      This! Also a similar issue drives me crazy with purchasing frozen unpeeled shrimp. The total package weight quoted (340g) clearly refers to the weight of the shrimp unpeeled, the serving suggestion (90g or 1/3 package= 270g edible total weight) refers to them being peeled (implying that they are aware most people will be purchasing them to consume peeled). Its like a 70g discrepancy every time on a fairly expensive protein. Misleading labeling bugs me...
    • Posts: 415 Member
      It sucks because I can't eat peanut butter. It breaks me out. But yeah, I cry all the time (In my head of course)
    • Posts: 1,758 Member
      canned tuna actually ends up being way less than stated on the can once it's been drained. i don't know, maybe some people don't drain it, but my kitties would revolt if they heard a can opener and didn't get snacks.
    • Posts: 167 Member
      PB...I used to think how much peanut butter would fit on a tablespoon was 1 tbs. When i measured a tbs of PB i was shocked. I could fit 5 tbs on my spoon.
    • Posts: 539 Member
      This is so depressing, especially the sweet potato. I always believed them. Darn manufacturers. They're like drug dealers. Keep us coming back for more food to stuff ourselves. Good grief!!
    • Posts: 126 Member
      Cheese, cheese, oh man, this one was/is so hard.

      The actual measurement of a liquid on everything from milk to beer!

      Currently I'm learning about macros and that might be even more disappointing, empty cals everywhere!
    • Posts: 28,052 Member
      YalithKBK wrote: »
      Peanut butter, ice cream, and cereal. I want to punch whatever *kitten* decided 1/2 cup of cereal or ice cream is anywhere close to what a normal human being would eat as a serving.

      I still eat PB and ice cream (mournfully) but have given up cereal.
    • Posts: 24 Member
      I was pleasantly surprised when I measured champagne. I was disappointed weighing cheese.
    • Posts: 1,804 Member
      Pasta. Cereal. Bread.

      I love Alpen cereal, but holy crap that stuff is calorie dense! So, it's now a rare treat. I've also completely given up on store bought granola and only rarely have the homemade kind. (Fortunately, the amazing homemade granola recipe in the Baked cookbook killed any desire I have to eat store bought granola anymore.)
    • Posts: 91 Member
      Everything. I'm surprised the most by how calorific some fruits are :(
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