Are these guidelines per day or week? I mean I can’t imagine eating 6-11 servings of bread, cereal, pasta each day.
Servings are a lot smaller than you think. Your average bagel shop bagel (not the little ones you get pre-packaged from the grocery store, but the good ones) are like 3 or 4 “servings” by the pyramid. Which was one of the big problems with the food pyramid, it all revolved around a vague word, nobody can look at a bagel and think 4 servings, so folks trying to run the pyramid tended to heavily overeat.