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ebony321

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I didnt quite know where to put this but it's about a 'product' i think so here goes..

Today i was in a hurry and bought a sandwich from Spar shop for my dinner. YUCK!

I went to eat and checked to see how many carbs were in it, and it only said a value per 100g's

I checked the packet, my friend checked the packet. i checked it again,

And there certainly was not ANY weight value for the entire sandwich!

So how am i supposed to work out the value??

I knew that the sandwich didnt weigh 100g.

Well i finally worked out from the front of the packet (only amount of sugar on the front btw) amount of calories in the sandwich VS the amount of calories per 100g to find out how much the sandwich must weigh...

By this time i was angry that i'd wasted half my dinner time staring at a sandwich that was hard round the edges and sparingly filling, threw it away after half a bite and vowed never to go to spar again for a sandwich.

Is this a common thing? shouldn't they have the weight of the product on there? otherwise unless you have a brain like einstein or a calculator near by your definately going to have to guess or starve!

GRRR! :evil:
 
There's a lot wwrong with nutrition labelling and not just from the POV of diabetics.

Why just put (simple) sugars on the front of packaging, when all carbohydrates are sugars and all will end up as glucose in your body anyway, even non-diabetics looking after their weight would want to know that.

And, when it comes to the so-called "look after yourself" ranges in the major supermarkets, all of them emphasise the fat content, totally ignoring the carb content. I tend to avoid these "be good to yourself" products because they usually compensate for the lack of fat by adding extra carbs.

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Yeah it's very very annoying!

i remember seeing a documentary about hidden things in food like a yoghurt saying 'no fat' and a man had it on a table in public and pured it into a bowl and said look its non-fat.. whilst puring an entire bag of sugar in the bowl he was saying 'it's still non fat'.. over and over.

So they just advertise it's low in fat like you said but make it taste better by making it up with sugar and salt. :evil:
 
I had the same fustrating experience with a salad dressing. The nutritonal content was give per 100gm, the bottle was measured in millilitres :?

There was no way on earth I could convert grams to millilitres - what on earth is the justifacation for that?
 

Hmmm...

Well i guess salad dressing could technically be a liquid?

But still match the content with the weight in one or the other!!

The more i'm eaing foods i havent in while and check labels, calculate the more i find labels quite unhelpful at times!!
 
My favourite us when they tell you the carbs per portion and don't tell you how big a portion is. Handy!

And you can never be quite sure of estimates. I was always told a slice of bread is 10 - 15g carbs. So I would expect a normal sized sandwich to be 30ish. So how come a cheese & ham toastie from costa coffee is 47g? What the hell are they putting in there? Mars bars?

When I lived near a Spar I basically lived on dairylea Dunkers and lemonade sparkle ice lollies. I don't think they sell any real food
 
Just looked at a Tesco's Soft White Medium loaf (the wifes ) and it says 46.4g per 100g and typically 18.6g per slice so expect a white bread sandwich to contain at least 37g of carbs.
 
Good job I hardly ever eat sandwiches then!
Has bread got bigger or did they just give out really ****** advice? When I was a kid I was always told bread was about 10g per slice. Also a packet of crisps was 10g, but whenever I buy crisps it's closer to 20g.
On the other hand, cornettos have got smaller! I remember not being allowed them because they had enough carbs for almost an entire meal. Had one the other week and it was 20g, which is half the carbs of my smallest meal when I was a kid.

Still sulking about Eat Natural cereal bars. I bought a pack of 4 then realised they're much smaller than the bars that are sold singly, even though the outer box is easily big enough to accommodate proper sized bars. And with this huge expanse of cardboard to spare, they still can't be bothered to put the nutritional info on the pack! I had to find their website to work out the carbs, which is not entirely practical. I thought nutrition labelling was a requirement.
 
mmmmm... cornetto's *drools*

i haven't had one in so long.. and hearing they are 20g of carbs makes me want to go out and get one right now.. :lol:

i also thought it was a requirement to state full nutritional requirements!

I'm still angry about my sandwich :lol: ... they should but the FULL amount of carbs and sugar on the front of things. would make my shopping trips with the mother much quicker!!

i always count a slice of bread as 11/2 and i got a sandwich from greggs .. simple chicken and salad i've got a leaflet in my drawer at work for the nutrition in all greggs foods.. and it was almost 60g of carbs!! safe to say i won't be going near those sandwiches in a hurry...

certainly must have marsbars tucked in there somewhere!! :lol:
 
ice creams are another oddity. Its solid but they use ml for most of the nutrional tables or suggest scoop serving option. And what size is a scoop? I have two and they hold totally different quantities.

Bread - Well Waitrose do a really nice wholemeal and seeds thick slice loaf which gives 11.9 per slice. If you go for their Farmhouse equivent the cho per slice jumps to about 18 or 19 and looks exactly the same. I do stick with the first variety which is in fact the tastier of the two. But I agree that breads vary widely.
 
thats a very good point about the icecream!!

i dont often eat it but i'll look out for that! probably better weighing it out if it has a value per 100g's..

i dont mean this in a bad way but it's good thing to know i'm not the only one with these fustrations with food packaging and nutrional values!

i've also noticed in small shops if you buy something that was originally meant to be whole sale the nutrition is on the box so you have no idea what it is!
 
Oh, Tescos are awful for that, gioving you the nutritional valuer per 100g but not trelling you what the sandwich weighs :evil: I always estimated it at 150g but the other day I bought a sandwich from Sainsbury's who do put nutritional information for the pack and it was just under 200g so I've been working the Tesco ones out wrong for about a year!
 

And to think their motto is every little helps!! i definately avoid those sandwiches now for this exact reason! very very irritating! and i'm sure simply putting the weight would please alot of people including those without diabetes!!
 
Much prefer to make my own sandwiches, that way I know the carb value and probably a lot healthier than the shop bought varieties that contain above average levels of salt and fat, but most of all...............I couldn't afford to buy them!

Nigel
 
noblehead said:
Much prefer to make my own sandwiches, that way I know the carb value and probably a lot healthier than the shop bought varieties that contain above average levels of salt and fat, but most of all...............I couldn't afford to buy them!

Nigel
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woah woah woah!! considering salt and fat too aswell as carbs!! one step at a time :lol:

Nah only joking!!.. i get what you mean really! alot healthier to make your own which i often do but in a rushed situation i have bought them in the past then when i started to carb count and bought one thats when this problem arised!!
 
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