Now that I’m starting to get into this whole healthy eating thing I find myself looking at labels more and more. I tend to ignore the fat figure and instead concentrate on the number of calories but there is one thing that is beginning to bug me. Who exactly are the “recommended portions” recommended for? Surely it can’t be for a grown man, I imagine a 5 year old kid would die of malnutrition if they stuck to the manufacturers recommended portion size. For example yesterday I opened a tin of peas to have with my chicken and chips dinner. On reading the tin I find out that each portion contained 48 calories, OK, that’s fair enough. However when I looked each portion was 1/3 of the tin. It was a small tin. One third would have been about a dozen peas, what good is that to anybody? Who in their right mind would have a dozen peas on their plate? It seems that every label I look at is like this, the irony being of course that if you stuck to their recommended portions you’d be more likely to collapse from a lack of energy rather than lose weight, especially if you are somebody like me who prefers to eat 3 solid meals a day rather than be snacking all the time. I’m picturing in my head the sort of person that can eat these portions are probably the same type of person that has soup with a tea spoon.
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