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<blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 8086921" data-attributes="member: 19675"><p>[USER=23023]@Dog Moon[/USER] </p><p></p><p></p><p>That’s the kind of thing that can definitely get you in trouble, which is why I did what I did about not accepting substitutes. (The end of point #1.) In fact, that kind of logic is part of why America has an obesity/malnutrition problem, especially in poorer neighborhoods. </p><p></p><p>There’s a thing they call “food deserts”. If you live in one, there are few grocery stores and most of the dining opportunities are of the fast food variety. It’s harder to get fresh veggies and fruits, but they can get all kinds of junk foods high in salt, fats and calories. Which are also typically low in key vitamins, etc.</p><p></p><p>In your case, step one might be checking the actual caloric content of those cheaper pizzas, with special attention to serving sizes & number of servings per container. You might be surprised by what you find. When my family started having to get serious about our diet- over 100lbs ago- one of the things we found reading labels was that serving sizes on some things we loved were NOT what we thought. For instance, there was a frozen Mac & cheese my Dad bought regularly- he’d often have one as a side with his steaks. Then he found out that the box he’d been eating as a single side was actually SIX SERVINGS. By eating the whole box, he was consuming several times the RDA in salt and calories for an adult male just with the side dish.</p><p></p><p>We stopped buying them after that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dannyalcatraz, post: 8086921, member: 19675"] [USER=23023]@Dog Moon[/USER] That’s the kind of thing that can definitely get you in trouble, which is why I did what I did about not accepting substitutes. (The end of point #1.) In fact, that kind of logic is part of why America has an obesity/malnutrition problem, especially in poorer neighborhoods. There’s a thing they call “food deserts”. If you live in one, there are few grocery stores and most of the dining opportunities are of the fast food variety. It’s harder to get fresh veggies and fruits, but they can get all kinds of junk foods high in salt, fats and calories. Which are also typically low in key vitamins, etc. In your case, step one might be checking the actual caloric content of those cheaper pizzas, with special attention to serving sizes & number of servings per container. You might be surprised by what you find. When my family started having to get serious about our diet- over 100lbs ago- one of the things we found reading labels was that serving sizes on some things we loved were NOT what we thought. For instance, there was a frozen Mac & cheese my Dad bought regularly- he’d often have one as a side with his steaks. Then he found out that the box he’d been eating as a single side was actually SIX SERVINGS. By eating the whole box, he was consuming several times the RDA in salt and calories for an adult male just with the side dish. We stopped buying them after that. [/QUOTE]
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