Quote Originally Posted by channlluv View Post
I think a lot of it is poor education on what constitutes a serving, too. And is farm-raised salmon healthy for you?

Ixnay on farmed salmon. The Monterey Bay Aquarium's seafood factsheet is highly regarded.

Don't you have a farmer's market or local butcher where you can get chicken?

I disagree about "poor education" on serving size though. People shouldn't have to go to school to learn what the food companies mean by a serving. Granted that serving sizes have increased by 30 to even 50% in recent years, but when the companies define a "serving" as 1/4 or 1/5 of what an ordinary person would put on their plate, that's not right either.

Then there's the other extreme. On the rare occasion when I open a can of soup or nuke a frozen dinner, I expect it to be a whole meal, as a couple of bowls of homemade soup or a plate of food would be. But it's 200 or at most 300 calories. What's up with that?