As we were getting ready for lunch today, I was thinking about food labels.

It seems to me that we would be far better off if, in addition to telling us how many calories per serving, we were also told the number of calories for the entire package.

For example, the guacamole I was eating says 45 calories per serving. However, far more useful is the information that I were to eat the entire container myself (assuming that Michael didn’t get a chip in when I wasn’t looking) I would have consumed 382.5 calories. Which, incidentally, made me feel a whole lot better. I mean, wouldn’t that be a great bit to add? “Even if you eat this entire container, you’d still be getting fewer calories than if you ate a Big Mac.”

Unfortunately, as Michael pointed out, if you are the entire container of guacamole AND the entire bag of tortilla chips AND the whole two liter of ginger ale, that would be more than 2000 calories, and you wouldn’t be able to eat anything else for the rest of the day.