Sorry, how many servings per packet?
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cheryldumais wrote: »Yup, bought naan once thinking it was 180 calories per piece. Wow great deal right... Then I rechecked the pkg and saw it was for half a piece? Who eats half a piece of bread?
This is the one I came to mention. Naan always seems to have half a piece as the serving size and it drives me crazy. Who is cutting that little six-inch round in half?
I like to use them as the base for a quick pizza-type snack for my husband, but I can't bring myself to eat them because 300 calories for a boring piece of bread...nope.
Yup bought it for pizza and was horrified when I realized I had been fooled. AFTER I ate it of course, lol. Never again.
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I got caught out by this with those packs of noodles in the refrigerator. 200 cals for the block? Amazing, I love these things! Except it's two servings - the grid on the back is laid out weirdly enough to account for with or without the sauce mix and that and my own wishful thinking got me to my wrong conclusion. How would you even separate those properly to save a serving for later? I know you could chop right down the middle but that would leave all scraggly noodles plus you're supposed to microwave them in the pack for a minute to loosen them up.5
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I was going to start a thread on serving size surprises.
I picked up a package of "Olives To Go!" thinking one cup was a serving size. THREE olives are a serving size, there are nine olives in one of those cups. A serving size is 40 calories, the cup is 120 calories (about) but I thought it was odd that this single serving cup has three servings in it.
I found a 'sun dried and garlic' stuffed olive, the serving size was ONE olive. Who is going to eat one olive?
Currently I weigh things, so the serving size means nothing. The label will say "Serving Size 1/2cup (64g) I weight it, if it is 62g I enter 62g into MFP. The problem is not everything on MFP has grams in the pull down selection.
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Ramen... 1/2 block
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cheryldumais wrote: »Yup, bought naan once thinking it was 180 calories per piece. Wow great deal right... Then I rechecked the pkg and saw it was for half a piece? Who eats half a piece of bread?
This is the one I came to mention. Naan always seems to have half a piece as the serving size and it drives me crazy. Who is cutting that little six-inch round in half?
I like to use them as the base for a quick pizza-type snack for my husband, but I can't bring myself to eat them because 300 calories for a boring piece of bread...nope.
Is this a bad moment to say that I've always had half a naan bread as a portion size? (normal sized, not mini naan obviously) Sometimes we used to rip them into thirds (but only when there was loads of other food and they were big naans)3 -
Running_and_Coffee wrote: »ruqayyahsmum wrote: »Protein cookies
A serving is half a cookie
What random weirdo is sat slicing a cookie in half to save for another day
My husband found a big box of sliced-in-half Larry's protein cookies in Ziploc bags. I am that random weirdo!! I stopped eating them a while ago....a TON of calories for such a small slice of a pseudo treat!
Lol bless you, I would have snaffled the lot5 -
Not necessarily a serving size but at a place like wetherspoons you get the burger calories without the chips included. So many calories I can only justify it if we're having a super long hike and end up at the pub or I've worked out a lot that day.0
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Queenmunchy wrote: »Ramen... 1/2 block
I found a recipe for a fabulous Asian ramen soup and to get the carbs and calories where I wanted it had to split the ramen in half. So yes, I am that person who only eats half a ramen at a time
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Lots of individually packaged muffins and cookies etc. will list a serving as "half a muffin" like wtf?? Who eats half a muffin? And a bag of chips at Jimmy Johns, a serving is "half a bag" ? um what? Why would you sell them individually packaged if it's not meant to be ONE SERVING!
YES!!! The chips at Jimmy Johns have hung me more than once. That drives me crazy!! Who can eat half a bag?? I sure can’t! 🤐
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I hate it when my regular yogurt is sold out at the grocery store. Its nutritional information is given per 175g whereas most others seem to be 125g. I'm the one standing in front of the fridges with her phone out doing the goddamn calculus to see which yogurt I should buy instead of my regular brand >.<14
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I'm also irritated by about. Don't tell me that servings per container is about 2 or about 5 or whatever.
Campbell's soup did everything they could to hide the number of calories in a whole can before the new labeling rules made them disclose that. The serving size was by volume but the amount in the can was listed by weight and a can had about 2 servings. I ended up filling an empty can with water so that I could weigh the water to get the volume of the can.
Campbell's soup was gonna be my rant! Who only eats 1/2 of those tiny cans???5 -
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jordanhillary wrote: »
You could pop it one tbsp at a time until you get the amount you want. :laugh:5 -
Microwave Popcorn. That should come with an advanced degree to figure out the maths needed to determine 1 serving size.jordanhillary wrote: »THIS!!! What is the point of giving us the calories for '1 TBSP unpopped'? I need that *kitten* popped!
I get a bag of plain kernels and pop it in a pan (with oil).
Jolly Time claims one serving is 2 T / 33 grams, but I like 44 grams, which is actually 1/4 C.2 -
cheryldumais wrote: »Yup, bought naan once thinking it was 180 calories per piece. Wow great deal right... Then I rechecked the pkg and saw it was for half a piece? Who eats half a piece of bread?
This is the one I came to mention. Naan always seems to have half a piece as the serving size and it drives me crazy. Who is cutting that little six-inch round in half?
I like to use them as the base for a quick pizza-type snack for my husband, but I can't bring myself to eat them because 300 calories for a boring piece of bread...nope.
Is this a bad moment to say that I've always had half a naan bread as a portion size? (normal sized, not mini naan obviously) Sometimes we used to rip them into thirds (but only when there was loads of other food and they were big naans)
I have naan more as a main component of a meal, like wrapped around a salad (instead of a tortilla or pita) or as a flatbread with toppings, so half a piece is a sad serving.
If you're just using them to mop up a sauce or something or accompany a meal, then I guess half a piece is reasonable, but I don't really eat bread with meals like that so I don't know.0 -
My ridiculous serving size complaint is with Kellogg's Sugar Frosted Flakes. This product is offered in a wide variety of packages, each of which nutrition label has a different serving size.5
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Microwave Popcorn. That should come with an advanced degree to figure out the maths needed to determine 1 serving size.
The package on the stuff I buy says 25 calories per popped cup, and I generally eat an entire bag by myself. I just measure the number of popped cups and multiply by 25. I have no idea if I'm measuring correctly or not, but I haven't got a Phd in Mathematics, so it's the best I can do.5 -
A serving of a prepared round pan cake is 1/9 th of a pan. Who cuts cake into 9 identical wedges and then tops it with 2 tbsps of frosting?6
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fitoverfortymom wrote: »
They could list it that way and it would make sense. The point is no one is cutting the round pizza into 5 slices .0
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