Intriguing
Sep. 18th, 2012 06:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sailorzeoSo, one of the things with tracking calories, and I've noticed this before, but I always forget about it in between bouts, is that when I start paying attention to serving sizes, I'm always surprised by some of them.
For instance, this morning, we had pancakes. Matt made them, so I entered the recipe into LoseIt, then just adjusted the number of servings to be the number of pancakes made. That was pretty straightforward. The spread serving size was a tablespoon; that seemed generous enough for 3 pancakes. The maple syrup (real maple syrup; I stopped using "maple-flavored" syrup years ago) had a serving size of a quarter-cup. I didn't have a clean quarter-cup measure, so I used the eighth-cup measure...and one of those was more than enough syrup for 3 pancakes.
I remember back in 1999-2000-ish, trying to keep track of what I ate by using recommended serving sizes only. I made a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, and was amazed at, I think, the serving size of the jelly compared to the peanut butter. I don't remember now which was bigger; I just rememeber a comically unbalanced sandwich.
For instance, this morning, we had pancakes. Matt made them, so I entered the recipe into LoseIt, then just adjusted the number of servings to be the number of pancakes made. That was pretty straightforward. The spread serving size was a tablespoon; that seemed generous enough for 3 pancakes. The maple syrup (real maple syrup; I stopped using "maple-flavored" syrup years ago) had a serving size of a quarter-cup. I didn't have a clean quarter-cup measure, so I used the eighth-cup measure...and one of those was more than enough syrup for 3 pancakes.
I remember back in 1999-2000-ish, trying to keep track of what I ate by using recommended serving sizes only. I made a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, and was amazed at, I think, the serving size of the jelly compared to the peanut butter. I don't remember now which was bigger; I just rememeber a comically unbalanced sandwich.
