You know what honks me off? Nutrition information labels.
Not all of them, mostly the ones that are on snack foods. The ones that hope you don’t notice that they are playing you for a dumb ass.
I have the kind of job where there are days that I have at least one hour for lunch and can run all kinds of errands. Then I have days when I feel fortunate to find three minutes to pee.
On the latter days, I usually run to the vending machine to find something vaguely edible. My preferred choice is a Three Musketeer candy bar, but as this blog has blathered on about at length, I am trying to change my evil ways. So this week, I made this choice:
Nuts, raisins, seeds, little yogurt bits. Not salted. It’s from Mr. Nature! It crosses the border to HealthyLand.
And it’s damn tasty! And filling! Gave me energy without the crash. I’m think this is a helluva deal for less than a buck. And I checked he nutrition label on the back and felt even better about it. Look what it says:
Under 200 calories and under 10 grams of fat. This is pretty damn cool. Until I look up above the big black line and notice the “servings per container” is TWO.
What. The. Fuck.
What douche bag eats half of a bag of nuts and raisins? No one that I would choose to know. The damn bag only weighs two freakin’ ounces. Are they marketing this shit to anorexic supermodels?
They assume, and in this case correctly, that it SEEMS so much better at 130 calories and 7 grams of fat. Because an hungry, time-strapped idiot like me might balk at indulging in a snack that has as many calories and more fat grams than a frozen dinner, so if they play with the numbers, we feel better about our choice.
This sucks balls and it’s disingenuous, Mr. Nature. A reasonable person is going to eat the whole bag, so put the real numbers on the bag, dickheads. I may be Fatty McFatterstien, but I can do the math here.
See you tomorrow, Mr. Nature. But just so you know, I’m on to you.
It is really sad just how bad those snack type foods are and the fact that they have more than one serving. Ridiculous. You should premake a big batch at home and bring it with you to have on hand.One that I like to make is with cashews or almonds, raisins, and dark chocolate chips.(so yummy) Some really great “bars” that I love to carry in my purse in case I need something are Larabars. They are super healthy and very satifying.
Sometimes food just plain sucks!
You are right and indeed, I should make my own and have done that in the past. This was just an emergency I-gotta-have-something-NOW thing. It’s just honks me off that they write nutrition labels like that.