For those not in the know, Uncrustables are amazingly tasty pre-made peanut butter and jelly sandwiches (unfortunately, wrapped in white bread) from Smuckers.

CC didn't have nutritional information on them for some reason, but the Smuckers website list the small ones at 210, but I eat the larger kind- so I found a link that showed me an 80-gram sandwich, at 310 calories (not too bad for their size).

While eating one in my school cafeteria today (as I do at least twice a week), I happened to glance at the sandwich wrapper- and it said that the sandwich was four ounces!

I'm a fair mathematician, and I discerned that my sandwich was more than 80 grams of food- using an online calculator, I discovered that 80 grams is only 2.8 ounces...

I can't find the nutrition for my Uncrustables anywhere- if at the same calories/gram measurement as the others, they'd be 450 calories, which would screw up about a year of counting.  Does anyone know about these school-lunch foods (or a source for general school-lunch calories)?  

This seems bizarre, but it looks like they sell a different product that is larger and made specifically for schools. Check it out here:

http://www.uncrustablesforschools.com/details .asp?code=2476

This one is a bit closer to 5 oz, though, so I'm not sure if it is the same as what you get.

Original Post by rachelcc:

This seems bizarre, but it looks like they sell a different product that is larger and made specifically for schools. Check it out here:

http://www.uncrustablesforschools.com/details .asp?code=2476

 

This one is a bit closer to 5 oz, though, so I'm not sure if it is the same as what you get.

 That's it- grape jelly, but same difference- and good god, it has half a day's fat and 500 calories.

I occasionally have two of these after a small breakfast or hard workout the day before.  That's going to be ending now...

They pack tons of calories into these lunches so free-lunch kids (poor) will have food in their bellies- but obesity is a far larger issue in my school (not me, thankfully) than starvation (and the starvers are typically well-off girls).