@Sturgis,
I see what you mean strugis. Your right, I look if it's something I'm interested in eating.
I mean the general "who looks" A lot of people do....for some items.
I get the shudder those people have when they do look at something that you finish off as one serving, a serving that actually seems totally appropriate. Then you see that it was meant to be 3 or 4 servings.
I'm not talking about American "Supersize Me" portions. Can't think of an example off hand, but we've all had the experience of eating a totally non-indulgent amount of something, and realizing some corporation made the serving size absurdly small, an amount that would satisfy no one, not even for the taste, with the clear motive of selling more product.
Ok, off my soapbox
I wrote a post month back that I found I had a ladle that measured a half cup, or a cup, and was using that.
That's morphed into a more comfortable thing where, I'm not fooling myself with amounts of food, but at the same time I don't need to be so exacting because if you eat foods that are very low carb, for instance spinach, brocolli, avocados, it's not going to matter if that avocado is more large or small, or if you ate 1.5 cups of brocolli, or 2 cups.
My belief is the way many have become accustomed to getting food, via a box or some other package, is the thing that's crazy making as far as portions sizes and measuring.
Plus the fact that the things I can eat until I'm satiated, fats, turns everything you know abuout eating on it's head. Another egg, piece of cheese, not paying attention how much olive oil you're pouring on your salad or meat, adding more salt because your body doesn't retain fluids and you actually need more salt, adding more cream to some tea you're drinking...none of that matters.
You don't walk away from a meal stuffed. You don't have a feeling your stomach is full. You just stopped eating because you got disinterested in the meal. Because it's not processed stuff, there's no additives that are making you crave more.
Here are the foods I can think of that came in some sort of a package, that I've eaten in the last month or 2...
Cream, meaning the carton
Cheese, since I have no interest in making my own.
Uncured bacon
Ground turkey, organic
Chicken quarters, organic
One can of sardines
The jars that contain the different fats I eat, or butter wrappers.
Peanut butter
That's it. None of those things are items I would need to be concerned about portions. Maybe the peanut butter, but instead of where you might want to eat half the jar, a spoon of it now foots the bill.
All the rest are produce, or frozen vegetables, or things like fresh fish or shrimp.
Honestly? It just all gets so simple and self balancing.
