One bowl stronger: Every spoonful of lightly sweetened, deliciously toasty
oat bran flakes and crunchy oat clusters is good for the health of your heart.
So get into the Smart Start habit - one tasty bowl after another.
And lest you think I am using funny camera angles here...another view:
Wait just a gosh darn minute! Where the rest of my cereal? The other 2/3 of my brimming bowl!? Well, just for fun, let's see how much cereal would be in that bowl. Here's a full bowl, just like the picture.
And here is that same cereal, measured out into a 2-cup measuring cup and 2 1-cup measuring cups.
So that one bowl full - the same bowl that they SENT ME and clearly pictured on the box - is actually three and a half servings of cereal. *sigh* It goes beyond supersizing combo meals - everything, even healthy eating - is out of control portion sizes. Ugh.
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Side notes:
-Today David is 5 months old, and it's the first day of school around here. Where, oh where did the summer go? I truly can't believe it. And FOOTBALL starts this weekend. Wow.
-If I needed any motivation to start potty training, I changed 6 diapers (4 of them poopy) in a 45 minute span yesterday afternoon. And nobody's sick, there was just a lot of...um...movement in our house at the time.
-It's raining today, and I'm loving it. There's such a nice breeze through the house, it sounds quiet and comforting, and it's an excuse not to go out and play. In a few months, I'll be dying for weather that's nice enough to go outside, but today I'm thankful for a day to stay in.
6 comments:
Fun with serving sizes. This is why I bought a digital food scale.
Don't know if this matters to you, but that cereal also has evil High Fructose Corn Syrup high in the ingrediants list. :-P~
Every since having gestational diabetes when pregnant with Emmaline, I've been really big on reading labels. It is so frustrating when companies don't make it easy to eat healthy. I know they are trying to make money and all, but I'm also trying to get my family to eat healthy and stay on a budget. I feel your pain!
What an eye-opener! Yikes! I'm a big fan of cereal as well. It even seems like a relatively healthy snack option -- you know as opposed to cookies or brownies or Doritos, but maybe not if that's what a serving size really is!
Emily,
The solution is simple - throw away the free bowl and buy a much bigger one. That way you'll not notice the portion size.
Seriously, it's a hard life when we can't even pig out on cereal isn't it?
No! Noooooo! I do NOT WANT TO KNOW THIS ABOUT CEREAL!
Look at the bright side. If you ate 3-1/2 servings of Smart Start with milk, you would only have been able to have a Quarter Pounder with Cheese and a SMALL french fry at McDonalds for your 700 calories. I'm sure the Smart Start has more fiber and less fat than the McDonald's fare.
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