Well, first of all... how about those new Orville Redenbacher's Smart Pop
Mini Bags?!?!?!? And it's 2 points for the bag, very tasty, and addresses what (IMHO) is a core concept in everything we're trying to do here: Eating smaller portions.
That being said... How do you count your popcorn?
As an example, I have here a 3 oz. (85g) bag of Jolly Time Healthy Pop (94% Fat Free) Butter Flavor Popcorn. Says 0% saturated fat, which is good.
On the back I see... [and I'm not gonna do the whole darn label, just the stuff that's pertinent to WW]
Quote:
Serving Size 2 Tbsp. (34g) Unpopped, (Makes 5 cups popped)
Servings per bag: 2.5 (About 12.5 cups popped)
Amount/Serving As Pkgd/2 Tbsp. Unpopped 1 Cup Popped
Calories 90 20
Total Fat 2g 0g
Dietary Fiber 9g 1g
Okay, how do you do this?
My inclination is to take the first column--90, 2, 9 respecitively--multiply each number by 2.5 (number of servings in a bag), which gives me 225 calories, 5g fat, 22.5g fiber, which I'll round down to 22.
When the whole points system first came out, there was no upper cap on the number of fiber grams you could plug into the formula; today, the limit is 4. I kinda think this is a crock, simply because if I'm expected to be honest about the calories and fat, then why not be honest about the fiber as well?
Anyways... just taking two different routes with the fiber numbers and plugging them into my WW Palm Journal (the one that's banned, but again, screw 'em!), here's what I get:
225 calories
5g fat
22g fiber
0.6 points
225 calories
5g fat
4g fiber
4.2 points
Okay... dig in folks! Where did I go wrong, if I did?
CD
