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Originally Posted by HarryT
One example of that I found the other day is cereals. I have a bowl of cornflakes every morning for breakfast. Nothing wrong with that - it's a reasonably healthy breakfast; when you read the box it tells you it has 180 calories in a 30g serving with 125ml of semi-skimmed milk. It suddenly occurred to me to wonder, however, how much 30g of cornflakes actually is, so I weighed it one morning - and it's about a third of the amount I'd normally been eating!
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I did the same thing. I started using a smaller bowl and for a month used a measuring cup until I felt like I knew what a serving looked like. And a serving of juice is 8 ounces, the cups we use are 16 ounces. That is what I mean about portion size. I started buying the prepackaged bags of nuts and crackers and the like because at least I knew how much I was eating.
I swear, we have no sense of portion control any more.