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T.v. commercials and online "recipes"- wondering what other CD members think of this: taking nice little snacks, and presenting them as "dinner."
When I first saw it, my first impression was "how many of these would a person have to eat to be satisfied?"
The recipe says ONE piece is a serving!
Second impression: "where are the veggies, etc.?"
Even if you dismiss the high sodium and fat content, there's too much "essential nutrition" that's missing.
So what do you think- singles and families- would you consider one of these things "dinner"?
(to add: it's not limited to this one specific recipe, either- there are plenty of others in the category of "a mouthful of taste and little to no nutrition")
Of course, I wouldn't consider one of these "things" dinner. I would serve the things with a hearty soup, or a salad, or a soup AND a salad.
There is nothing carved in stone that says you can only eat one. If I wanted to, I could eat two. Or three. Just because Pillsbury says "one is a serving" doesn't mean it's true for me. (They aren't watching, are they?) If a body had a big lunch, maybe just a little dinner is all they want. Small children might find one of these things filling. So they don't have veggies tonight. They had veggies last night. They'll have veggies tomorrow night. It's okay to skip once in a while.
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I don't think that "one serving" means "one MEAL." Everything is written as "serving" -- it means nothing in terms of its function as part of your meal.
I like when the nutritional information is broken down by the individual item, actually. That way, if I have 3 of them, I know what that equates to in terms of calories, fat, etc... It's easier math than if they say the serving size is 3, and I only have 2.
On a box of cookies that says "serving size: 3" -- they know that cookies aren't a meal! (Well, I could make a meal out of cookies, but that's a whole other issue. ) I'd rather they say "serving size: 1" so that, when I have 7 of them, the math is easier.
No one is making those ham and cheese roll ups and presenting just one as the entire meal. Why couldn't they be served with a side or two of vegetables? When you make chicken for dinner, its not like a piece of chicken is the entire meal. You would make sides to go with the chicken, so why are these any different? Its not like Pillsbury is claiming ham and cheese roll ups to be a one pot meal.
I've made miniature pot pies before with Crescent rolls. I never considered them the whole meal even though they did have chicken and vegetables inside them. We had salad and some other vegetable side with them.
Those looked delicious. I'd definitely do that and a salad and maybe a soup - but I'm sure those have a lot of sodium,maybe skip the soup.
You kmpw those are the ones that are totally getting demolished first at a Sunday church get together.
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) I'd rather they say "serving size: 1" so that, when I have 7 of them, the math is easier.
A snack is when I have an apple or peanut butter crackers or celery. If I have to cook it, it's supper.
