Snack Pak

[smoke gets in my eyes]

Yes. This is really about Snack Pak. The pudding. Well, okay... really it's about portions. Y'know... XXX calories per serving. Only what they think is a serving and what you think is a serving are two different billygoats. The demons are the bags of chips that say "220 calories per serving". Who goes on to read that the bag that isn't as big as the palm of your hand has 3 servings in it??? Absurd. Why aren't they realistic? Who eats 5 chips? Now Snack Pak... there's a hors d'oeurvre of a different color. A serving is one of those little cups. Perfectly straightforward. The caramel creme has 110 calories per serving. But... I think I'd eat less if they were twice as big. Stop gaping. C'mon... you get three spoonfuls of pudding. Is that satisfying? NO. So I'll have just one more. It's only 110 calories per serving. I might as well finish the package since it's open. After all I'll need to do that to get just 16% of the calcium I need today. I'd better. It's okay, it's only 110 calories per serving.

I really think I would stop after one (I mean two) if they were in the same cup and it said there were 220 calories in a serving. I mean... that's over 1/10th of the calories I'm supposed to have in a day on maintenance!

And another thing... there's no lo-cal Snack Pak. Why? Well why should they? It's only 110 calories per serving. :saywhat?:

[wantneeda]

lol...funny you mention pudding...one of the ladies at work is a diabetic. They have sugar free pudding for her, apparently hard to find, anyways every night we have the same convo. If her sugar is high...she usually has half of her pudding left over at tea time form supper and doesn't believe that the pudding has anything in it that won;t up her sugar. Finally the other night she asked to see the box. Sure enought the carb content is significant. Carbs up her sugar. So i was eating this pudding at work thinking it's ok cause its low fat, sugar free, and yes sometimes just to satify my sweet tooth i'd stick a spoon in the bowl and just have one.but sure enough not long after I'm searching for something else to put in my mouth. Now that i know it's not so good i haven't been eating it.
Ya really, 5 chips...thats just rediculous!!!!! Along the same lines as the great big bag that when opened is less than 1/2 full....

[Nina Kay]

Smoke, I agree with you about how small the servings on the packages of things are. I asked a lady who told me that it really comes down to eating 10 - 1/2 cup servings a day of anything you choose, as long as you don't go over 10 in one day. I said, Do you mean that you actually live off of that little amount? LOL !!!

Wendy, That's the same way that I react to anything sugarfree.

[smoke gets in my eyes]

I bet if I ate 10 1/2 cup servings of Hershey's Syrup it would foil her equation.

[Nina Kay]

:Lmao

[tobstah]

you know what a good subsitute for pudding is? 0% yogurt! in montreal we have a brand called SOURCE (i dont know if it exists in the states) and a little cup thingy is 50 cals!!!!!!!! and they make apple crumble flavour. MMM MMM GOOD! and God bless splenda! lol.

anyway I highly recomend looking into the low no fat low calorie yogurts. you can eat like 3 instead of 1 of those pudding things.

[smoke gets in my eyes]

I eat those yogurts all the time. I think of them as medicine. My palate is very hip to the difference.