skinny cow update

I'm sure you all are just holding your breath on this one - like we need another
new item to tempt us. G

When at the store the other day I noticed a display of new skinny cow items ...
scoopable icecream in quart sized tubs! My local store had vanilla, mint
chocolate chip, strawberry cheesecake and maybe another variety that is not coming
to my mind at the moment. I picked up a vanilla, is really a nice switch from the
sandwiches and bars. As much as I like the no fat/no sugar added icecreams, the
skinny cow stuff is definitely better!

Joyce

How did the price compare to the other low fat brands?
Laura hooked on the fudge bars

"Joyce" wrote in message
...
I'm sure you all are just holding your breath on this one - like we need
another
new item to tempt us. G

When at the store the other day I noticed a display of new skinny cow
items ...
scoopable icecream in quart sized tubs! My local store had vanilla, mint
chocolate chip, strawberry cheesecake and maybe another variety that is
not coming
to my mind at the moment. I picked up a vanilla, is really a nice switch
from the
sandwiches and bars. As much as I like the no fat/no sugar added
icecreams, the
skinny cow stuff is definitely better!

Joyce

To tell the truth Laura, I didn't notice. g I am a horrid grocery shopper,
tend to just buy what I want/need. It also didn't help that my grocer had a
special ... buy one get one free. I believe it was right up there with the price
of Breyer's/Edy's, etc. Definitely more expensive than the generic/cheaper brands
- but right in the price range of most other brands. It sure is good though.

Joyce

On Sat, 03 Jan 2004 15:24:24 GMT, "Laura" wrote:

How did the price compare to the other low fat brands?
Laura hooked on the fudge bars

"Joyce" wrote in message
.. .
I'm sure you all are just holding your breath on this one - like we need
another
new item to tempt us. G

When at the store the other day I noticed a display of new skinny cow
items ...
scoopable icecream in quart sized tubs! My local store had vanilla, mint
chocolate chip, strawberry cheesecake and maybe another variety that is
not coming
to my mind at the moment. I picked up a vanilla, is really a nice switch
from the
sandwiches and bars. As much as I like the no fat/no sugar added
icecreams, the
skinny cow stuff is definitely better!

Joyce

Thanks for posting this....i am going to keep my eyes open for this.
Your post did make me smile...when i first started trying to find the
Skinny Cow produts, i made the huge mistake of getting 'Brown
Cow'.....needless to say, the Brown Cow products have ALOT MORE
POINTS!

isabela



Joyce wrote in message . ..
I'm sure you all are just holding your breath on this one - like we need another
new item to tempt us. G

When at the store the other day I noticed a display of new skinny cow items ...
scoopable icecream in quart sized tubs! My local store had vanilla, mint
chocolate chip, strawberry cheesecake and maybe another variety that is not coming
to my mind at the moment. I picked up a vanilla, is really a nice switch from the
sandwiches and bars. As much as I like the no fat/no sugar added icecreams, the
skinny cow stuff is definitely better!

Joyce

LOL! I haven't seen any Brown Cow products, guess I was lucky in that department.
This new product wasn't in the same section as the bars and ice cream sandwiches,
but the carton is so unique (the cow print again) that it really did stand out.
I'm sure people thought I was nuts because I was so excited over silly icecream.

Joyce

On 3 Jan 2004 13:33:42 -0800, (isabela) wrote:

Thanks for posting this....i am going to keep my eyes open for this.
Your post did make me smile...when i first started trying to find the
Skinny Cow produts, i made the huge mistake of getting 'Brown
Cow'.....needless to say, the Brown Cow products have ALOT MORE
POINTS!

isabela



Joyce wrote in message . ..
I'm sure you all are just holding your breath on this one - like we need another
new item to tempt us. G

When at the store the other day I noticed a display of new skinny cow items ...
scoopable icecream in quart sized tubs! My local store had vanilla, mint
chocolate chip, strawberry cheesecake and maybe another variety that is not coming
to my mind at the moment. I picked up a vanilla, is really a nice switch from the
sandwiches and bars. As much as I like the no fat/no sugar added icecreams, the
skinny cow stuff is definitely better!

Joyce

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp.../food_portions


That's why I will NOT buy this new item. Funny, just this morning
(when it was MINUS 14F) I was discussing the info on the above link
and that certain things, including Skinny Cows, limited portions and
that was why they were "good!" A TUB will make me a TUB!!!!

But for this who want instant info rather than a link (sorry for
length and copyright)


Food Portions

Sat Jan 3, 3:07 PM ET

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - With self-refilling bowls of soup and jumbo buckets
of stale popcorn, professor Brian Wansink has identified one culprit
for U.S. obesity: excessive food portions.

The University of Illinois researcher has set up several food
experiments that show the more people are given, the more they will
eat — regardless of whether they are full or think the food tastes
good.

"In the obesity war, portion size is the first casualty," said
Wansink, who founded the University of Illinois' Food & Brand Lab.
"It's easy to point at, and we don't have to take responsibility
because we can blame the restaurant or the packaged food
manufacturer."

Wansink and other researchers hope the results can help the federal
government devise more user-friendly nutrition labels for packaged
foods. For example, instead of stating that a handful of granola has
200 calories, the label instead could say the consumer would have to
walk 2 miles to burn it off.

His experiments — which have included tomato soup, popcorn and potato
chips — target the visual clues people use to tell them it's time to
stop eating.

In the soup experiment, participants come to the lab expecting a taste
test. Some bowls are rigged with hidden tubes that keep them full,
while others are not.

Over two years of the experiment, students with bottomless bowls
tended to eat 40 percent more than test subjects with regular bowls.

"I wasn't aware of it," said Nina Huesgen, one of the students who got
a trick bowl in a recent experiment. "That's why I feel so filled up,
I guess."

James Painter, chairman of Eastern Illinois University's Family and
Consumer Sciences Department, who collaborated with Wansink on the
experiment, said one student drank almost a quart of soup.

"I said, 'What were you doing?' And he said, 'I was trying to reach
the bottom of the bowl,'" Painter said.

Another telling experiment came outside Philadelphia, where Wansink
offered free popcorn to moviegoers at a $1 movie theater. Half the
audience was given fresh popcorn, either in small containers or in
jumbo buckets; half received 14-day-old popcorn in small and jumbo
containers.

Even though 82 percent of the people with the old popcorn reported it
tasted terrible, those with the jumbo buckets ate 33 percent more than
those with the smaller container.

Wansink has come up with ways the food industry could help, such as
offering visual clues to what an adequate portion should be.

An experiment with Lay's Stax potato chips gave one group regular
chips, a second group chips in which every seventh chip was red, and a
third group chips in which every 14th chip was red.

The groups weren't told the reason for the red chips but still used
them to determine how much to eat, Wansink said. The participants who
ate the least had the potato chips in which every seventh chip was
red, followed by the group in which every 14th chip was red.

Such research has produced commonsense tips for the weight-conscious.

For example, people who drank out of short, fat glasses consumed
considerably more than those who used tall, skinny glasses, even
though the glasses held the same amount.



"The tendency we have is to focus on heights instead of widths,"
Wansink wrote in a report on the study. "That's why, for instance,
people say, 'Boy, is the St. Louis Arch high.' But they never say,
'Boy, is it wide,' even though the dimensions are identical."

___

On Sat, 03 Jan 2004 04:11:09 -0600, Joyce wrote:

I'm sure you all are just holding your breath on this one - like we need another
new item to tempt us. G

When at the store the other day I noticed a display of new skinny cow items ...
scoopable icecream in quart sized tubs! My local store had vanilla, mint
chocolate chip, strawberry cheesecake and maybe another variety that is not coming
to my mind at the moment. I picked up a vanilla, is really a nice switch from the
sandwiches and bars. As much as I like the no fat/no sugar added icecreams, the
skinny cow stuff is definitely better!

Joyce

Hey, thanks for sharing the article - I found it very interesting reading! Ok,
guess that's where my analness comes into play. I don't have a problem with the
tubs of icecream ... I weigh the scoops. G Yup, each and every danged time I
have any - regardless as to a sundae or a float ... cup or bowl goes on the scale,
every bit is accounted for.

Funny, I no longer weigh or measure many things - but that danged icecream is one
that I do. Probably a good thing, huh?

Joyce

On Sun, 04 Jan 2004 18:47:15 -0800, Fred wrote:


http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp.../food_portions


That's why I will NOT buy this new item. Funny, just this morning
(when it was MINUS 14F) I was discussing the info on the above link
and that certain things, including Skinny Cows, limited portions and
that was why they were "good!" A TUB will make me a TUB!!!!

But for this who want instant info rather than a link (sorry for
length and copyright)


Food Portions

Sat Jan 3, 3:07 PM ET

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - With self-refilling bowls of soup and jumbo buckets
of stale popcorn, professor Brian Wansink has identified one culprit
for U.S. obesity: excessive food portions.

The University of Illinois researcher has set up several food
experiments that show the more people are given, the more they will
eat — regardless of whether they are full or think the food tastes
good.

"In the obesity war, portion size is the first casualty," said
Wansink, who founded the University of Illinois' Food & Brand Lab.
"It's easy to point at, and we don't have to take responsibility
because we can blame the restaurant or the packaged food
manufacturer."

Wansink and other researchers hope the results can help the federal
government devise more user-friendly nutrition labels for packaged
foods. For example, instead of stating that a handful of granola has
200 calories, the label instead could say the consumer would have to
walk 2 miles to burn it off.

His experiments — which have included tomato soup, popcorn and potato
chips — target the visual clues people use to tell them it's time to
stop eating.

In the soup experiment, participants come to the lab expecting a taste
test. Some bowls are rigged with hidden tubes that keep them full,
while others are not.

Over two years of the experiment, students with bottomless bowls
tended to eat 40 percent more than test subjects with regular bowls.

"I wasn't aware of it," said Nina Huesgen, one of the students who got
a trick bowl in a recent experiment. "That's why I feel so filled up,
I guess."

James Painter, chairman of Eastern Illinois University's Family and
Consumer Sciences Department, who collaborated with Wansink on the
experiment, said one student drank almost a quart of soup.

"I said, 'What were you doing?' And he said, 'I was trying to reach
the bottom of the bowl,'" Painter said.

Another telling experiment came outside Philadelphia, where Wansink
offered free popcorn to moviegoers at a $1 movie theater. Half the
audience was given fresh popcorn, either in small containers or in
jumbo buckets; half received 14-day-old popcorn in small and jumbo
containers.

Even though 82 percent of the people with the old popcorn reported it
tasted terrible, those with the jumbo buckets ate 33 percent more than
those with the smaller container.

Wansink has come up with ways the food industry could help, such as
offering visual clues to what an adequate portion should be.

An experiment with Lay's Stax potato chips gave one group regular
chips, a second group chips in which every seventh chip was red, and a
third group chips in which every 14th chip was red.

The groups weren't told the reason for the red chips but still used
them to determine how much to eat, Wansink said. The participants who
ate the least had the potato chips in which every seventh chip was
red, followed by the group in which every 14th chip was red.

Such research has produced commonsense tips for the weight-conscious.

For example, people who drank out of short, fat glasses consumed
considerably more than those who used tall, skinny glasses, even
though the glasses held the same amount.



"The tendency we have is to focus on heights instead of widths,"
Wansink wrote in a report on the study. "That's why, for instance,
people say, 'Boy, is the St. Louis Arch high.' But they never say,
'Boy, is it wide,' even though the dimensions are identical."

___

On Sat, 03 Jan 2004 04:11:09 -0600, Joyce wrote:

I'm sure you all are just holding your breath on this one - like we need another
new item to tempt us. G

When at the store the other day I noticed a display of new skinny cow items ...
scoopable icecream in quart sized tubs! My local store had vanilla, mint
chocolate chip, strawberry cheesecake and maybe another variety that is not coming
to my mind at the moment. I picked up a vanilla, is really a nice switch from the
sandwiches and bars. As much as I like the no fat/no sugar added icecreams, the
skinny cow stuff is definitely better!

Joyce

I'm the same with pasta and rice. I can eyeball a piece of meat or
breakfast cereal, but I don't trust myself with those starches. If I ever
let myself buy a full carton of icecream again rather than single serve
tubs, I may have to go the weighing option for that as well.

--
Julie.
93.5/72.7/74 (WW)/72 (Personal) kg
205.7/159.9/162.8 (WW)/158 (Personal) lb

"Joyce" wrote in message
...
Hey, thanks for sharing the article - I found it very interesting reading!
Ok,
guess that's where my analness comes into play. I don't have a problem
with the
tubs of icecream ... I weigh the scoops. G Yup, each and every danged
time I
have any - regardless as to a sundae or a float ... cup or bowl goes on
the scale,
every bit is accounted for.

Funny, I no longer weigh or measure many things - but that danged icecream
is one
that I do. Probably a good thing, huh?

Joyce

On Sun, 04 Jan 2004 18:47:15 -0800, Fred
wrote:



http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...e=6&u=/ap/2004
0103/ap_on_he_me/food_portions


That's why I will NOT buy this new item. Funny, just this morning
(when it was MINUS 14F) I was discussing the info on the above link
and that certain things, including Skinny Cows, limited portions and
that was why they were "good!" A TUB will make me a TUB!!!!

But for this who want instant info rather than a link (sorry for
length and copyright)


Food Portions

Sat Jan 3, 3:07 PM ET

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - With self-refilling bowls of soup and jumbo buckets
of stale popcorn, professor Brian Wansink has identified one culprit
for U.S. obesity: excessive food portions.

The University of Illinois researcher has set up several food
experiments that show the more people are given, the more they will
eat - regardless of whether they are full or think the food tastes
good.

"In the obesity war, portion size is the first casualty," said
Wansink, who founded the University of Illinois' Food & Brand Lab.
"It's easy to point at, and we don't have to take responsibility
because we can blame the restaurant or the packaged food
manufacturer."

Wansink and other researchers hope the results can help the federal
government devise more user-friendly nutrition labels for packaged
foods. For example, instead of stating that a handful of granola has
200 calories, the label instead could say the consumer would have to
walk 2 miles to burn it off.

His experiments - which have included tomato soup, popcorn and potato
chips - target the visual clues people use to tell them it's time to
stop eating.

In the soup experiment, participants come to the lab expecting a taste
test. Some bowls are rigged with hidden tubes that keep them full,
while others are not.

Over two years of the experiment, students with bottomless bowls
tended to eat 40 percent more than test subjects with regular bowls.

"I wasn't aware of it," said Nina Huesgen, one of the students who got
a trick bowl in a recent experiment. "That's why I feel so filled up,
I guess."

James Painter, chairman of Eastern Illinois University's Family and
Consumer Sciences Department, who collaborated with Wansink on the
experiment, said one student drank almost a quart of soup.

"I said, 'What were you doing?' And he said, 'I was trying to reach
the bottom of the bowl,'" Painter said.

Another telling experiment came outside Philadelphia, where Wansink
offered free popcorn to moviegoers at a $1 movie theater. Half the
audience was given fresh popcorn, either in small containers or in
jumbo buckets; half received 14-day-old popcorn in small and jumbo
containers.

Even though 82 percent of the people with the old popcorn reported it
tasted terrible, those with the jumbo buckets ate 33 percent more than
those with the smaller container.

Wansink has come up with ways the food industry could help, such as
offering visual clues to what an adequate portion should be.

An experiment with Lay's Stax potato chips gave one group regular
chips, a second group chips in which every seventh chip was red, and a
third group chips in which every 14th chip was red.

The groups weren't told the reason for the red chips but still used
them to determine how much to eat, Wansink said. The participants who
ate the least had the potato chips in which every seventh chip was
red, followed by the group in which every 14th chip was red.

Such research has produced commonsense tips for the weight-conscious.

For example, people who drank out of short, fat glasses consumed
considerably more than those who used tall, skinny glasses, even
though the glasses held the same amount.



"The tendency we have is to focus on heights instead of widths,"
Wansink wrote in a report on the study. "That's why, for instance,
people say, 'Boy, is the St. Louis Arch high.' But they never say,
'Boy, is it wide,' even though the dimensions are identical."

___

On Sat, 03 Jan 2004 04:11:09 -0600, Joyce wrote:

I'm sure you all are just holding your breath on this one - like we need
another
new item to tempt us. G

When at the store the other day I noticed a display of new skinny cow
items ...
scoopable icecream in quart sized tubs! My local store had vanilla,
mint
chocolate chip, strawberry cheesecake and maybe another variety that is
not coming
to my mind at the moment. I picked up a vanilla, is really a nice
switch from the
sandwiches and bars. As much as I like the no fat/no sugar added
icecreams, the
skinny cow stuff is definitely better!

Joyce

I have trouble with pasta and rice too. Now that I have an electronic
kitchen scale keeping track of those items will be easier. Up until now
I've been just measuring the cooked items in a 1 cup measure.

"JulieB" wrote in message
...
I'm the same with pasta and rice. I can eyeball a piece of meat or
breakfast cereal, but I don't trust myself with those starches. If I ever
let myself buy a full carton of icecream again rather than single serve
tubs, I may have to go the weighing option for that as well.

--
Julie.
93.5/72.7/74 (WW)/72 (Personal) kg
205.7/159.9/162.8 (WW)/158 (Personal) lb

"Joyce" wrote in message
...
Hey, thanks for sharing the article - I found it very interesting
reading!
Ok,
guess that's where my analness comes into play. I don't have a problem
with the
tubs of icecream ... I weigh the scoops. G Yup, each and every danged
time I
have any - regardless as to a sundae or a float ... cup or bowl goes on
the scale,
every bit is accounted for.

Funny, I no longer weigh or measure many things - but that danged
icecream
is one
that I do. Probably a good thing, huh?

Joyce

On Sun, 04 Jan 2004 18:47:15 -0800, Fred
wrote:




http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...e=6&u=/ap/2004
0103/ap_on_he_me/food_portions


That's why I will NOT buy this new item. Funny, just this morning
(when it was MINUS 14F) I was discussing the info on the above link
and that certain things, including Skinny Cows, limited portions and
that was why they were "good!" A TUB will make me a TUB!!!!

But for this who want instant info rather than a link (sorry for
length and copyright)


Food Portions

Sat Jan 3, 3:07 PM ET

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - With self-refilling bowls of soup and jumbo buckets
of stale popcorn, professor Brian Wansink has identified one culprit
for U.S. obesity: excessive food portions.

The University of Illinois researcher has set up several food
experiments that show the more people are given, the more they will
eat - regardless of whether they are full or think the food tastes
good.

"In the obesity war, portion size is the first casualty," said
Wansink, who founded the University of Illinois' Food & Brand Lab.
"It's easy to point at, and we don't have to take responsibility
because we can blame the restaurant or the packaged food
manufacturer."

Wansink and other researchers hope the results can help the federal
government devise more user-friendly nutrition labels for packaged
foods. For example, instead of stating that a handful of granola has
200 calories, the label instead could say the consumer would have to
walk 2 miles to burn it off.

His experiments - which have included tomato soup, popcorn and potato
chips - target the visual clues people use to tell them it's time to
stop eating.

In the soup experiment, participants come to the lab expecting a taste
test. Some bowls are rigged with hidden tubes that keep them full,
while others are not.

Over two years of the experiment, students with bottomless bowls
tended to eat 40 percent more than test subjects with regular bowls.

"I wasn't aware of it," said Nina Huesgen, one of the students who got
a trick bowl in a recent experiment. "That's why I feel so filled up,
I guess."

James Painter, chairman of Eastern Illinois University's Family and
Consumer Sciences Department, who collaborated with Wansink on the
experiment, said one student drank almost a quart of soup.

"I said, 'What were you doing?' And he said, 'I was trying to reach
the bottom of the bowl,'" Painter said.

Another telling experiment came outside Philadelphia, where Wansink
offered free popcorn to moviegoers at a $1 movie theater. Half the
audience was given fresh popcorn, either in small containers or in
jumbo buckets; half received 14-day-old popcorn in small and jumbo
containers.

Even though 82 percent of the people with the old popcorn reported it
tasted terrible, those with the jumbo buckets ate 33 percent more than
those with the smaller container.

Wansink has come up with ways the food industry could help, such as
offering visual clues to what an adequate portion should be.

An experiment with Lay's Stax potato chips gave one group regular
chips, a second group chips in which every seventh chip was red, and a
third group chips in which every 14th chip was red.

The groups weren't told the reason for the red chips but still used
them to determine how much to eat, Wansink said. The participants who
ate the least had the potato chips in which every seventh chip was
red, followed by the group in which every 14th chip was red.

Such research has produced commonsense tips for the weight-conscious.

For example, people who drank out of short, fat glasses consumed
considerably more than those who used tall, skinny glasses, even
though the glasses held the same amount.



"The tendency we have is to focus on heights instead of widths,"
Wansink wrote in a report on the study. "That's why, for instance,
people say, 'Boy, is the St. Louis Arch high.' But they never say,
'Boy, is it wide,' even though the dimensions are identical."

___

On Sat, 03 Jan 2004 04:11:09 -0600, Joyce wrote:

I'm sure you all are just holding your breath on this one - like we
need
another
new item to tempt us. G

When at the store the other day I noticed a display of new skinny cow
items ...
scoopable icecream in quart sized tubs! My local store had vanilla,
mint
chocolate chip, strawberry cheesecake and maybe another variety that
is
not coming
to my mind at the moment. I picked up a vanilla, is really a nice
switch from the
sandwiches and bars. As much as I like the no fat/no sugar added
icecreams, the
skinny cow stuff is definitely better!

Joyce

That's why I will NOT buy this new item. Funny, just this morning
(when it was MINUS 14F) I was discussing the info on the above link
and that certain things, including Skinny Cows, limited portions and
that was why they were "good!" A TUB will make me a TUB!!!!

I agree completely! The single portion servings make life easier. It's
too hard to control scooping out of a quart or gallon container. Your
bowl needs a lot to look full :-)


--
Hugs,
Schmoopie