"Ms P" wrote:
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> > James Silverton wrote:
> >> Hello All!
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> >> Today, I used some Campbell's French Onion Soup. The ingredient
> >> list indicated "about 2.5 servings". Why would any want to serve
> >> half a person or is it just a way to reduce the amounts of fat
> >> or salt listed?
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> > Serving sizes are probably regulated by someone, somehow, for some obscure
> > reason. �It always kills me to see what you describe. �Like what, you're
> > going to feed two adults and a small child from that can of soup?
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> > What says "serves 4" means serves 2, at least in my world. �My serving
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> > isn't generally 5 tablespoonfuls of whatever.
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> > Wouldn't it be funny if they started marking vegetables this way? �Oh no,
> > sorry, that big honkin' baked potato serves 4!
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> > Jill
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> What you put on your plate or in your bowl is not the serving size.
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> That big honkin' baked potato might very well be 4 SERVINGS and not serve 4
> people. �A single serving is about 1/2 cup. �You can of course have more
> than ONE serving. �Unless of course you consider that big honkin' potato ONE
> serving then you're going to be way over eating.

Depends on many other factors... if you don't eat the hunks of bread
slathered with butter, don't have the typical empty calorie
appetizers, no dessert and don't drink the entirte bottle of dago red
then that jumbo spud is not over eating... potatoes in of themselvs
are not fattening, in fact just the opposite, they make a healthful
filling vegetable so you don't eat all the chazeri. A large baked
potato with a dollop of fat free yogurt sprinkled with herbs makes for
a very nutritious and health conscious part of a meal, goes a long way
to keep the meat portion smaller too.