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Permalink Reply by The Diabetic Welfare Queen on August 24, 2010 at 7:31am

I read it... and yes, I know very well to not shovel food in my mouth. I don't not have food because of that... Also, perhaps the economy you went to college in is not the same as today, cus I could do magic with $300 a week, back then. I don't get $300 a week, right now... I get $300 dollars a MONTH. So no, it doesn't help, for very much. Some months I make it, and most months I don't, and I end up at food pantries, etc. Your post doesn't help me. Useful for one day, when I have any kind of income, perhaps. But right now, it doesn't help me.

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Permalink Reply by Diabetes Chef on August 24, 2010 at 7:47am

I am sorry oops that was a typo error..should have proof read it more...$300 per month and $75 per week to pay for rent,utilities,food, entertainment etc..and that's all I got from my part time job. So you say you go to food pantries..that's awesome..do they limit you as what you can take or do they give you a bag of food and say "here u go have a nice day" When I was poor and sometimes living in the streets I had to be very creative at times. Those food pantries I went to gave me a bag groceries. With the dollars and cents i allocated for food from the $300 per month I was able to satisfy appetite.

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Permalink Reply by The Diabetic Welfare Queen on August 24, 2010 at 7:51am

Well... my $300 is supposed to feed me, and my 5"11 husband. lol The give us very strict limits as to what we can have, at the food pantries. And it's really never very much.

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Permalink Reply by Diabetes Chef on August 24, 2010 at 7:59am

I have family of three and spend $280 per month..so it's definitely possible to eat healthy and live well..Please out some of my recipes at www.mynutritionstrategist4u.com and go to "Resource Library and take a look at some of our recipes and meal plans to get some idea on how to use that $300 wisely per month. And if you have face book checkout our Health Consultants4u page. please send us your comments

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Permalink Reply by The Diabetic Welfare Queen on August 24, 2010 at 8:07am

I find it quite hard to believe... At least, not a low carb diet.

Permalink Reply by Brian (bsc) on August 24, 2010 at 2:02pm

I would be very interested in how you eat for $280/mnth. I cook from scratch, buy in bulk, buy from farmers and everything, but whole fresh foods cost $$$. Can you give us an idea of how you do this? I feel fortunate to keep my "weekly" costs for a family of 4 to $280. There are plenty of cheap poor sources of calories, but these are often not healthy and I try not to make them a major part of my family's diet.

I am fortunate that I can afford my food. But many Americans are under financial pressure, and although macaroni and cheese in a box is cheap, I don't consider an element of a healthy diet.

Permalink Reply by Terry Keelan on February 26, 2010 at 7:22am

Multiply by five then divide by the number of slices you're actually going to make. Or cut it into sixths and throw one away. :)

Why do they make is so difficult and obscure? It must be the marketing department. They slice the product up into enough 'servings' to make the calories or other items look more attractive and count on you not to pay attention to the number of servings.

Terry

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Permalink Reply by TimmyMac on February 26, 2010 at 12:00pm

i saw a funny one on a pack of chocolate peanuts that i got out of a vending machine when i was low.. serving size: 25 peanuts. servings per container 1.25.

I mean seriously? 1.25...? who is going to just eat the one serving and leave about 6 peanuts in the bag?

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Permalink Reply by Diabetes Chef on August 24, 2010 at 6:46am

Yes, I have seen many like those..or how about Sports Gatorade where it says caloreies from sugar=96 when total calories per serving is 90 calories. Have no fear we are speaking to food companies and getting them to make food labeling improvements. However, Trying to get them to move is like trying to move a mountain...sometimes you need dynamite power of persuasion to change minds. Change is very hard at times

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Permalink Reply by Diabetes Chef on August 24, 2010 at 6:41am

Yes, Maria I feel your pain....there many folks like you that are trying to make of our food labels and its parent. Have no Fear our team at Health Consultants4u are working with Campbells soup and other food manufacturers to redisign labels and edit them for clarity. We tell them if you want consumers to buy your product then work with us to make "sense of these numbers"

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Permalink Reply by JeffD on August 24, 2010 at 6:59am

You know that cereal Shreded Wheat? Comes three biscuits to a package, and I don't know 8 packages to a box. You take out a package, remove the biscuits and mash em up and add milk. Well the serving size on the nutrition lable is two biscuits!! Why make us do the math.

Then there are the breakfast cereals whose serving size is half a cup. What is that, three spoonfulls? Are they trying to hide threir high carb by lowering the serving size?

I came across a candy bar whose serving size was one third of the candy bar? And it wasn't a big one either?

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Permalink Reply by Diabetes Chef on August 24, 2010 at 7:06am

Oh yes what wicked and strange scheme of deception these guys are doing to us...one of our clients once told me that maybe these companies are trying to make us use our brains and realize that once we read the ingredient label we won't buy their product. Maybe, that's it Boycott product and find another similar product with less carbs,sodium,fats etc...force them to change. People power at its best

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