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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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