I said 4 or more; that’s because I deliberately save some for the kids. I’m delighted to see votes for 1 or 2, as my own delight for cookies and chocolate sometimes makes me wonder if gluttony needs to be added to my own list of vices.
I’ve mentioned our isolation before. AFAIK, no swiss cheese is for sale within 2 hours of our location; that and Pepperidge Farm Cookies were among the treats I’d bring back from Bangkok. But recently I found a supermarket an hour’s drive away that sells Pepperidge Farm Cookies. We may be eating them more often now!
I am unfamiliar with the term used to mean that a single item which makes up your entire meal.
I am more familiar with definition number two from here: *.
a single portion of food or drink; helping.
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So a scoop of green beans would be a serving - the portion or amount I would eat at one sitting. It would not imply an all-grean-beans meal.
Me, too. I have all kinds of self-discipline when it comes to eating, but I’m not sure I can resist Pepperidge Farm cookies, so I just don’t keep them in the house. (Not that I ever really have.)
Yes…but cookies can be a stand-alone snack (in which case I might have a snack-sized serving) or a dessert (in which case I might have a dessert-sized serving). Or I could eat cookies for supper, in theory (and in practice on several occasions during my bachelor days).
I don’t know how many cookies fit in one of those, but I consider something in the range of one or two cookies (depending on their size) to be a serving.
I split the difference at two. I can very easily devour the entire bag by myself. But usually I’ll either share half or save half for later. Occasionally I’ll be very thrifty and only eat one layer at each session.
For scientific accuracy purposes, I pretty much only eat Milanos.
The suggested serving size on the label of just about any product you buy always seems ridiculously small. Am I just a pig or are these sizes suggested by anorexic dwarves?
Personally, they seem reasonable to me, but there’s also an assumption that you’re not eating only cookies for your entire meal. Like I said above, one or two cookies, depending on their size, seems right. Looking at the Pepperidge Farm cookies, which look like they’re about the size of the palm of your hand, one seems right.