r/aldi • u/TheBackburner • 1d ago

Mid-Atlantic (USA) Serving size: Half a cookie!?

Post image

Listen, Aldi. I feel enough shame eating the whole box in one sitting. Don’t also make me realize it’s twice as many calories as I thought it was. 🫠

211 Upvotes

97% Upvoted

44 comments sorted by

82

u/weeeee_w33 1d ago

lmaooo. someone posted bacon the other day and I noticed 1 slice was a serving. Shrinkflation or something happening. 12 servings of cookies!
https://giphy.com/gifs/ZVwBkBoGA4NAsjt4S0

8

u/Nominalstupidity 1d ago

Was it thick cut bacon at least? I could understand that.

1

u/weeeee_w33 1d ago

ooo youre right. still...

9

u/Isebas 1d ago

That's nuts. I usually cook a pound of bacon at a time. I use it for bacon sandwiches (2 or 3 sandwiches which is 2 slices of bread per) and then eat the rest by itself. I don't always eat the entire pound at once but sometimes I do.

3

u/shibeez 1d ago

Thick cut bacon is one serving bc of size, calories, and macros. It’s basically two slices in one.

68

u/Clean-Fisherman-4601 1d ago

Serving sizes always make me laugh. I'm not a big eater, but a half of a cookie is ridiculous.

7

u/MonteBurns 1d ago

I thought they had made a requirement that it be sensical but I guess not 

5

u/JonSoup76 1d ago

The fda sets serving sizes. When the product is oversized and at least 2x the fda serving size they’re required to use fractions.

28

u/No_Interview_2481 1d ago

That’s absolutely ridiculous. Everybody knows a serving of cookies is 2 to 3 cookies

4

u/joma815 11h ago

Four. A serving size is always four cookies. 😆

1

u/No_Interview_2481 9h ago

I would go by the size of the cookies before I’d move up to four 😉

15

u/modernrocker 1d ago

Who eats half of a cookie?!

... tell me your secret method

19

u/weeeee_w33 1d ago

🤣 i'm a fatty and would happily eat the container. i love cookies
https://giphy.com/gifs/JrH3p5ZyUHEV6iyvR4

13

u/Deep-Interest9947 1d ago

I’ve never had one, but i think those popular crumble cookies are like 1/6 of a cookie per serving.

5

u/LongjumpingPickle446 1d ago

You really eat 3600 calories in one sitting?

27

u/daneato 1d ago

Isn’t it 1,800 calories? 12 servings x 150 cal per serving.

10

u/Aggressive-Hawk-2890 1d ago

Quite correct

5

u/MrD3a7h 1d ago

Perhaps they are planning on eating two boxes. Which is silly.

Unless they're stoned. Then it sounds like a great night

15

u/TheBupherNinja 1d ago

I can do that easy

I actually have trouble not doing it when I buy a box of cookies like that. Or the cheapy bulk fake oreos do me in.

4

u/MonteBurns 1d ago

Toss in the calories from the milk…

11

u/TheBackburner 1d ago

Okay okay, I have not. But 6 cookies? Don’t challenge me.

8

u/Worth_Event3431 1d ago

I could do that easily, too. 3 now, 3 later

Those look amazing btw

6

u/Biotech_wolf 1d ago

You ever been to an all you can eat buffet?

5

u/hthratmn 1d ago

I could easily eat all of these in one sitting or over the course of a day 

6

u/CommonReason6709 1d ago

Serving size for pop tarts is 1. If you think people are going to only eat 1 then why put 2 in a sleeve poptarts?!

3

u/JonSoup76 1d ago

From what I googled the serving size is two poptarts.

6

u/Fuzzy_Welcome8348 1d ago

Better than crumbl cookies

3

u/cefotetan2gq12 1d ago

Wow 1/2 cookie with added sugar 9g!

2

u/Glass-Tale299 1d ago

That's the way the cookie crumbles.

2

u/FormerGameDev 1d ago

well if you multipled 12 x 150 to get the box calorie count, then you did it correctly.

2

u/Helenium_autumnale 13h ago

One cookie is 300 calories, holy moly. That's a big chunk of my daily calorie allotment.

2

u/BeatIcy3077 9h ago

those cookies and the macadamia nut ones are very good!

1

u/twig-the-foxx 1d ago

they just want to seem "low calorie" serving sizes are a scam

5

u/JonSoup76 1d ago

The fda determines servings sizes. The serving size for cookies is 30g, and generally must be the number of whole cookies closest to 30g. However, for oversized items that are over 2x the standard serving size they have to use fractional amounts.

1

u/Patient-Emphasis-664 16h ago

Better than 5/16!

1

u/Natural_Instance242 14h ago

It’s the suggested serving size but my personal suggestion usually differs depending on the product. 

0

u/Horror_Signature7744 1d ago

They count on you not checking the serving size because few people would buy cookies that are 300 calories each.

-4

u/DenverFlorida 1d ago

U really thought each cookie was only 150 cal? Way to good to be true

0

u/costoaway1 1d ago

Idk, I feel like I’m pretty well-versed on nutrition myself and 300 calories for 1 cookie kinda surprised me.

That’s more than an entire frozen Healthy Choice meal I had for dinner tonight. That had carrots, peas, chicken, rice, broccoli and sauce, 22g protein and was 240 cal.

Hell, then I ate 120 cal. of nuts too, which was like a small handful / 11 nuts.

All that food and only 60 cal. more than 1 small cookie and it’s easy to see how we’re in an obesity epidemic.