• wander1236@sh.itjust.works
      45·
      2 days ago

      The “family size” lasagna is about 1400 Calories total. I think it’s reasonable to say that’s 2 adult servings, but Stouffer’s says it’s 5.

      • humorlessrepost@lemmy.worldEnglish
        20·
        2 days ago

        Yeah if that’s 5 servings, assuming three meals per day, that’s 840 calories per day. That’s not healthy, even for non-Americans.

        • SillyDude@lemmy.zip
          8·
          2 days ago

          You’re supposed to have a diverse diet. Mac and cheese, broccoli, a pork chop, some fruit. Its so weird that people keep narrowing their diet, globally. We’re monkeys that are supposed to be eating many different things.

          • humorlessrepost@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            1 day ago

            I’m not suggesting it would be normal to eat that same thing for each meal, just three similarly sized (in terms of calories) meals.

      • zurohki@aussie.zone
        English
        4·
        2 days ago

        They usually put a picture on the box of a ‘serving suggestion’ where the product is on a plate with a bunch of other things. So it’s five servings if each serving is a quarter of a full meal.

        • wander1236@sh.itjust.works
          10·
          1 day ago

          I’m sure that’s their excuse, but I think most people buying and heating a frozen lasagna are doing it because of time and effort, so it’s about on par with cereal companies calling their sugar pellets “part of a balanced breakfast”

          • BoneheadBruin@pawb.social
            2·
            4 hours ago

            I have no idea why we are even pretending servings have anything to do with what you’re supposed to eat. “Popcorn Perfect Butter Blast” has “0 fat, 0 calories” while being literally just oil i.e. pure fat because they divided 150g of it into 450 servings as if the average person i s individually buttering each piece of popcorn. Tictacs are pure sugar and round down to 0 calories and 0 sugar. I’ve seen cookies with 1/2 a cookie for the serving size. Legally they are supposed to reflect “typical consumption patterns” but it’s more like “the smallest portion the FDA will let us get away with”.