You're supposed to have a diverse diet. Mac and cheese, broccoli, a pork chop, some fruit. Its so weird that people keep narrowing their diet, globally. We're monkeys that are supposed to be eating many different things.
They usually put a picture on the box of a 'serving suggestion' where the product is on a plate with a bunch of other things. So it's five servings if each serving is a quarter of a full meal.
I'm sure that's their excuse, but I think most people buying and heating a frozen lasagna are doing it because of time and effort, so it's about on par with cereal companies calling their sugar pellets "part of a balanced breakfast"
I have no idea why we are even pretending servings have anything to do with what you're supposed to eat. "Popcorn Perfect Butter Blast" has "0 fat, 0 calories" while being literally just oil i.e. pure fat because they divided 150g of it into 450 servings as if the average person i s individually buttering each piece of popcorn. Tictacs are pure sugar and round down to 0 calories and 0 sugar. I've seen cookies with 1/2 a cookie for the serving size. Legally they are supposed to reflect "typical consumption patterns" but it's more like "the smallest portion the FDA will let us get away with".
17 Comments
WhatsHerBucket@lemmy.world · 49 pts · 73d
Any pizza is a personal pizza with enough determination
frog@feddit.uk · 15 pts · 73d
Thank you Costco $10 whole pizza.
gaiussabinus@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 73d
The meal isn't over when you are full, its over when you hate yourself.
ArtVandelay@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 72d
Oh man that's a throwback, I liked Brian Reagan
redparadise@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 73d
All mushrooms are edible at least once.
justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 68d
with determination? a pizza usually comes in standard meal portions
cRazi_man@europe.pub · 21 pts · 72d
Thats why my pronoun is "they/them". Please refer to me in the plural.
diabetic_porcupine@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 72d
Maybe I am a stouffers lasagna
slothrop@lemmy.ca · -17 pts · 73d
Spot the American!
wander1236@sh.itjust.works · 45 pts · 73d
The "family size" lasagna is about 1400 Calories total. I think it's reasonable to say that's 2 adult servings, but Stouffer's says it's 5.
humorlessrepost@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 73d
Yeah if that’s 5 servings, assuming three meals per day, that’s 840 calories per day. That’s not healthy, even for non-Americans.
SillyDude@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 73d
You're supposed to have a diverse diet. Mac and cheese, broccoli, a pork chop, some fruit. Its so weird that people keep narrowing their diet, globally. We're monkeys that are supposed to be eating many different things.
humorlessrepost@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 72d
I’m not suggesting it would be normal to eat that same thing for each meal, just three similarly sized (in terms of calories) meals.
zurohki@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 73d
They usually put a picture on the box of a 'serving suggestion' where the product is on a plate with a bunch of other things. So it's five servings if each serving is a quarter of a full meal.
wander1236@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 73d
I'm sure that's their excuse, but I think most people buying and heating a frozen lasagna are doing it because of time and effort, so it's about on par with cereal companies calling their sugar pellets "part of a balanced breakfast"
BoneheadBruin@pawb.social · 2 pts · 72d
I have no idea why we are even pretending servings have anything to do with what you're supposed to eat. "Popcorn Perfect Butter Blast" has "0 fat, 0 calories" while being literally just oil i.e. pure fat because they divided 150g of it into 450 servings as if the average person i s individually buttering each piece of popcorn. Tictacs are pure sugar and round down to 0 calories and 0 sugar. I've seen cookies with 1/2 a cookie for the serving size. Legally they are supposed to reflect "typical consumption patterns" but it's more like "the smallest portion the FDA will let us get away with".
silver@das-eck.haus · 8 pts · 73d
True, only Americans eat lasagna