Do you ever read the suggested serving size and weep with joy?

I do! It’s a shame it happens so rarely.

Imagine 8 servings to a pint of icecream. Thats about 2 teaspoons each, or it was the last time I ate a pint of Cherry Garcia (sigh)

The 7 dwarves hadn’t come home from work

I think it’s 4 to a pint now. I told my boyfriend we had to start eating healthy and that meant eating the serving sizes on ice cream. He was not pleased with me. We’re both big ice cream eaters.

Yeah. “One tablespoon” of salad dressing always throws me for a loop. I use a huge bowl of lettuce with lots of vegetables, and a tablespoon of Ranch would be lost in there.

Same with 2.5 servings for the Coca Cola that comes out of our vending machine at work. Who splits one with another person, let alone a friend-and-a-half?

Mostly I weep tears of sadness after having completed an entire pint of Ben and Jerry’s Phish Food and reading that it contained 12 servings of one teaspoon each. At times I have been please to encounter recommended serving sizes larger than what I expect and at those time I do indeed cry tears of joy.

Consider some manufacturers change their serving sizes such that they can label them as “fat-free” or “carb-free” or “Whatever-free”, as most legislation about such labeling says that any food with less than a certain amount per serving can be advertised as “free” of it. Take this to an extreme: theoretically a box of chocolate covered butter chunks could be labeled fat-free if the serving size was small enough!!

Serving size for goldfish is 32, by the way.

You have NO idea how much I love Goldfish snack crackers. I literally have a closet full of empty boxes as a trophy. No exaggeration.

Normally I feel the other way around—that I want to eat way more than the serving size! Though, with chocolate especially I can never handle the serving size suggested, which always make me feel a little better. Thanks for all the Ben and Jerry’s love! I’m from Vermont which has forever tainted my ability to appreciate anything less than the highest quality ice cream ; )

As a diabetic, I have to read serving sizes more often than not on many occasions when I eat. Sometimes I like the nice portions you can get from a product and other times I look at the suggestions on the packaging and think, you can barely even get a liking or a taste from such a small portion. What a drag.

Mmmmm, chocolate covered butter chunks.

I’m only 5’7 and 165lbs and and never gain a pound no matter what I eat. If I ate suggested serving sizes I think I would starve to death.