Small food trend

Jane,

First of all, congrats on the spectacular weight loss!!!

Re the portion sizes. Yesterday my sweetie and I went out for dinner.
Afterwards we stopped at our favorite coffee place and he bought 1 large
chocolate chip cookie which he brought home in a bag. It looked pretty big,
so out of curiousity, I weighed it.. It came in at almost 7 ounces!

I put that weight in my diet software and found that ONE of these cookies
weighs in at 800 calories and over 100 gms of carbs. Eight hundred
calories!!! And you know people eat them and think "I didn't really go off
my diet, I only had one cookie."

You do start understanding why you see so many fat people walking around,
though. It isn't at all hard to eat 3,000 or more calories a day if you eat
out.
--
Jenny

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"Jane Lumley" wrote in message
...
In article , krtyrrell
writes

Interestingly enough I was just thinking about this.
I made cookies for my family /daycare kids.. and I was thinking about
the yield of my recipe. It's a very old one.. and it claims that you
should average 4 dozen cookies. I Seldom got more than 2 dozens prior
to LC.

so this last time I made them.. I aimed to get the 4 dozen.. The
cookies were about the size of a tablespoon when cooked.
Since when did they have to be the size of a large mouthed glass ?
like I had previously been making them.

So true! Same with cupcakes, or fairy cakes as we call them - I used to
fill up muffin tins. Now I make the number my ancient cookbook says
they SHOULD make instead of doubling quantities to get that number.

And look at the VAST sizes of coffees. Mugs are much bigger than cups,
and then there's cappuccino grande! Venti! When I was young, it was
just a cup size of cappuccino, and corresponding amounts of milk and
sweetening.

And Starbucks biscuits, in packs of two or even four, where one
digestive used to be enough. I know the idea might be to share them,
but most people want to pick their own flavour. And, yes, our vast
plates. one key thing for me is that I never use dinner plates now.
Crisps, too - when I was a kid a crisp packet only had about ten crisps
in it.
--
Jane Lumley
179/141/140

Jenny wrote:

Jane,

First of all, congrats on the spectacular weight loss!!!

Re the portion sizes. Yesterday my sweetie and I went out for dinner.
Afterwards we stopped at our favorite coffee place and he bought 1 large
chocolate chip cookie which he brought home in a bag. It looked pretty big,
so out of curiousity, I weighed it.. It came in at almost 7 ounces!

I put that weight in my diet software and found that ONE of these cookies
weighs in at 800 calories and over 100 gms of carbs. Eight hundred
calories!!! And you know people eat them and think "I didn't really go off
my diet, I only had one cookie."

You do start understanding why you see so many fat people walking around,
though. It isn't at all hard to eat 3,000 or more calories a day if you eat
out.
--
Jenny


You can actually find the precise nutritional info online for a
lot of that junk. Well, precise inasmuch as the cookies etc.
weigh exactly the same amount, which they don't. How ould you
just weight the cookie and come out with their nutritional
content? You wouldn't know the exact ratios of the ingredients,
would you?

--
Jean B., 12 miles west of Boston, Massachusetts, USA