I've started tracking my food intake again. It's been a couple years since I did this. No wonder my weight has slowly creeped back up. Once I started tracking, I was also appalled at my poor nutrition. So I started entering my proposed diet of the day into SP to make sure I was getting everything I need.
One of my favorite sandwiches to make again is good for either breakfast or lunch. If I'm home during the day, I have it at lunchtime, but if I'm going to work, I have it for breakfast. It's a toasted whole wheat English muffin with 33g of peanut butter and 20g of strawberry jam.
What I have discovered, using my food scale, is that 20g of jam is one heaping teaspoon (not a measuring teaspoon, but the kind you eat with.)
Anyhow, the first time I made this sandwich, I was tempted to glop on another teaspoon "to give it more flavor," but I didn't.
What I discovered was that I could indeed taste the heaping teaspoon of jam. If I had used double the jam, it would have added extra calories to the sandwich, and I don't think it would have added any extra goodness. Maybe it would have had a little more jelliness in texture, (I think I just invented a new word, there) but who needs that?
Now I suppose I need to learn that eating extra cookies one after the other doesn't add any extra goodness. Hmmmm. That's a blog post for another day.
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