In what universe is six crackers equal to one serving?

I recently bought these crackers on sale at the grocery store without looking at the nutritional information. I figured a serving would be 10-12 crackers, which is what it’s been on other cracker boxes I’ve eaten lately, and it would come out to 140-150 calories. Still a lot for one small serving, but at least I would’ve expected that.

Instead, I happened to take a look at the box. Six crackers is 70 calories — that’s more than 11 calories per cracker. Compare that to the stated nutritional value of a Hershey’s Kiss: 23 calories per, and you generally eat four to eight of them (for a total of 100-100 calories). Somehow I feel that 200 calories of Hershey’s Kisses would be more satisfying than 200 calories of pita crackers, but I like pita crackers a lot.

I recently started counting calories for a few reasons — one of which was because I’d gained almost twenty pounds last year, especially after my insurance stopped covering GLP-1 medication. I was pretty mad about it. Still am, honestly. And I’ve lost about three pounds in the two months I’ve been counting calories, while staying below my calorie goal at least 75 percent of the time. I really should have lost closer to six pounds, but every little bit helps. But the problem with counting calories is that you find yourself not enjoying food anymore because you’re more focused on the numbers than the food itself.

As I write this, I’m 1484 calories under my goal for the day (I’m writing this particular post at 3:30pm on a Thursday). I’ll probably go over today, because I’m craving Indian food and the items I usually order are a vegetable appetizer plate and a couple of naan (I eat one at dinner and save the other for breakfast). The naan are quite calorie-heavy. The only thing that might save me is that I don’t have any dessert in the house (because I ate it with my lunch). I can tell you this, though: I won’t be eating any pita crackers today.

Even though I really want them.