IS IT PURPOSEFULLY CONFUSING?

I really enjoy buying bulk foods at the various grocery stores that sell them.  I can purchase nuts, granola, dates, dried fruit, and other exotic low and high calorie treats in as small a quantity as I like.  These sections of the grocery store are self-serve - so there is no issue with embarrassing oneself asking for as tiny a portion as you want.   One simply takes what one desires, bags it, and marks it with an identifying number and it is paid for at the counter.   It is no more difficult at checkout buying six or seven bulk items in tiny quantities than buying anything else sold by weight at the market.

HOWEVER, THERE IS ONE THING THAT IS QUITE ANNOYING ABOUT THE EXPERIENCE.

In each store, the nutritional information is plainly marked on each product.  The calories, the fat, the carbs, the protein, etc.... It's all there... And it's all there marked in grams.

In each store, each item is sold by the pound.

Why is that?

Wouldn't it be much less confusing for the consumer if these products could be sold by the gram?   Would it not be at least more beneficial to the consumer if the weight that was printed on the label at least gave the weight and the grams.  This would be a simple programming change and would cost the store nothing to do.   I suspect that this is purposefully kept confusing.

The reason that I say this is that each food looks so reasonable in its caloric content.   Is a food that is 150 calories per 28 grams high calorie?   Well, it is, if one buys half a pound and eats it at one sitting.

Anyway, I have trained and continue to train myself to take very small portions.   Usually before I eat these treats I go through the mathematical contortions of changing the pounds purchased to the correct number of grams and figuring out how many portions I did buy.

As a recovering food addict, less recovered, and more addict.... I seem incapable of buying these delicious foods and NOT finishing whatever it is that I have bought.   That is why it is so important to me to buy small quantities at the outset.

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 Saturday MENU

breakfast   three poached eggs, oatmeal, center cut bacon, bulk foods  1161 calories
lunch         SEAFOOD SALAD, SESAME SEAWEED SALAD            530 calories
dinner       SALAD BAR, cherry vanilla granola                                      780 calories
SNACK    BULK FOODS                                                                         949 calories

total calories consumed 3420 calories

calories burned

elliptical machine 92 minutes, manual, level 20              2217 calories

CALORIES BURNED 2217 CALORIES

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Saturday net calories 1203 calories

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