When you eat vittles, do you look at the nutrition label beforehand?

[Deja Q]

Poll question: When you eat vittles, do you look at the nutrition label beforehand?

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/2020/GiveMeABreak/Serving_size_040813-1.html

Apparently, some people don't. Johnnie Stossel sums it up as this:

So it's the government's mandates that now allow food companies to say a blueberry muffin serves three people...

Worse is this, which only adds credibility to the sad idea that Americans are spoon-fed duncels: People seemed to have a good idea about why the food industry is labeling products this way. "It's to make more money, and to make people think they're eating healthier than they are," one woman said.

Sheesh, I get frustrated when working on a counter PC and the waiting customers think I'm a freak because, OMG, I freely show my emotions (I'm a human, not a robot, sorry...). You know, I'm surreptitiously scrutinizing them as well. Oh, I may have an anxiety disorder but they just don't have a clue as to what they are projecting about themselves...

I have no idea how the halliburton I digressed from that subject, but oh well.

[supernova]

1. Yes, I read the labels

scrupoulously now. I'm a portion nazi now like I have never been before. :P

Even when I make sugar free pudding I make it last for days and just eat a 1/2 C at a time.

I also bought a food scale that measures out portions.

[tandot]

14. I always read nutrition labels...but I might eat it anyway

Some things have like 2 servings in it but the nutrition label information is only for 1 serving.

For lunch, I had one of those can of soups today that is supposed to have two servings in it. F*ck that. One serving had only 2 grams of fat.

I pay attention to labels. However, if I feel like eating one of those triple sized muffins, I'll do it anyway. I know what I put in my body and probably am carefully for the next day or two.

[rfranklin]

2. We were looking at a Swanson chicken pot pie this evening...

It had 700 calories (and it was small.) Fat content was 98% of RDA. We threw it out.

[Deja Q]

3. YEOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bloody 'ell, no wonder there's an obesity problem in this country.

700 calories and 98% fat content for a pot pie (and those buggers are small...) :wow:

[amber dog democrat]

5. you don't want to get busted for pot here.

a Swansons can get you 5 years. or probation.

[KoKo]

15. ...and RODENT HAIRS! ...well that was a long time ago...they might have

cleaned up their act since Consumer Reports Mag. said that they found huge numbers of "rodent hairs" and some "fecal matter," in Swanson's Pot Pies.

However my Dad has eaten them all his life and he's 96...he just became senile..so there's hope that whatever's in the rodent hairs contributed to his longevity...Rodent hairs may have a vitamin that we are missing.

:evilgrin:

[supernova]

4. You could 1/2 it

and not eat the whole thing.

My grandma used to make chicken pies. :9

[Beaverhausen]

6. John Stossel is an asshole! n/t

[HysteryDiagnosis]

7. I read the labels.....

afterwards.... so I can ID the aromas wafting in the room. :)

[ChoralScholar]

8. Yes.. here's the worst one I've ever seen

Try an take a guess what it comes from... if no one figures it out I'll post it in 15 or 20 minutes.

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

11. Ho-LEE crap!!!

WTF???? Whatever it is, I've probably eaten it! Yikes!!!!

[ChoralScholar]

12. And here's the winner:

And here's a link to a 'funnier than shit' article about it. And you know how funny shit is! This is FUNNIER than THAT!

http://www.x-entertainment.com/articles/0744/

<snip>
"Careful. It's poison. Okay, it's not really poison, but you'd probably have to drink oil to flush this shit out, and that's poison. Swanson, producers of some of the world's fattiest TV dinners, is seeking to take over the breakfast market with a new line of microwaveable morning meals. It's called the 'Hungry Man All Day Breakfast,' and it's threatening to turn people into manatees."
<snip>

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

13. Oh. My. God.

Ok I take it back, I HAVEN'T eaten that and never would. My GOD.

I eat a bowl of cold cereal with skim milk for breakfast every day, maybe with a cup of orange juice. That's it. Every day.

[Bertha Venation]

17. I have eaten similar meals more than once in my life, at Denny's.

And you all wonder how I arrived at the fabulous shape I am in! *tsk*

I DO have a fabulous shape! Round is a shape . . . .

[Deja Q]

18. Do you know what the eggs and bacon there remind me of?

Groucho Marx with a ciggie in his mouth...

Of course, it means that, um, other thing, as well... O8)

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

9. I try not to ever look at the label

unless there's something specific I want to know, but I mostly look at INGREDIENTS.

We avoid artificial colors and try to avoid artificial flavors everywhere we can. If it says Red 1 or Blue 1 or anything like that, forget it.

[Padraig18]

10. We try to eat healthy, so yes, we read labels.

We're not fanatics about it, but we do like to know what's in what we eat, and how much, so we can plan a decent meal.

[Bertha Venation]

16. Yes, AAMOF I do. And I also read the serving sizes, and do the math --

because I am not the blistering idiot they take me for.

It pays off too. I'm down to 1300 cal per day and I'm 39% of the way to my first goal.

It's early, but I'm tired. 'night, all.

(:hi: Toad)

[Deja Q]

19. Congrats on the 39%!!

:party:

:toast:

[Bertha Venation]

20. Thanks, HT. You're actually the first I've told outside my family.

:bounce: