Bested by a can of soup

Note: I originally wrote this piece many years ago for another site. It is not available anymore, so I am republishing it. I had some tomato soup with crackers for dinner recently. While cooking, I grew increasingly frustrated with counting the carbs until I finally fell apart. It went something like this. Okay, there are two and a half servings per can–mixed with milk instead of water (I can’t forget to add the carbs from the milk). I’m also eating crackers with my soup. There are four crackers per serving at 9 grams per serving.How many servings of crackers am I going to eat? Wait; back to the soup. It’s not even cooked yet. Crackers can come later. What did the label say? Two and a half servings per can. The serving size is one-half cup condensed. Who in the heck measures out their condensed soup? All right, how about I cook the whole can, then split it out after it is done? So I’ve got two and a half times twenty grams per serving. Okay, there are fifty grams of soup in the can. Don’t forget the milk – let’s add thirteen grams for a cup of skim milk. Fifty-plus thirteen is sixty-three. There. I’ve got sixty-three grams of carbs cooking in the...
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