Just weighed my 450c saladworks salad. WoW!
popcorn7225
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Deconstructed saladworks salad. Romaine turkey swiss egg white and green goddess dressing. The Web site says 450. Actual calories. 1106. Really not cool
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Oh pasta was on the ingredients list too0
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Man, that sucks. I'd be devastated if I wasted 1100 calories on a freaking salad.0
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I can't say I'm surprised. I imagine most food you get in a restaurant is pretty far from what is on the website.0
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How do you get that? The website doesn't even have the salad weight in grams. Serving is 1 Salad.0
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LolBroScience wrote: »How do you get that? The website doesn't even have the salad weight in grams. Serving is 1 Salad.
I'm wondering the exact same thing. I love Saladworks and really want to see how big their margin of error is for the two salads I typically get (Autumn Harvest and Chicken Caesar).0 -
I am actually surprised most chain restaurants it pretty accurate, the profit margin is so slim that they really cannot afford to be going way over like that. I have a mad greens near me, and they weigh every item they put in your salad to ensure it matches what their menu states.0
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Dressing. It is the dressings that up the calorie count on salads. Stick to mostly vegetables, some lean protein and some reasonable amount of dressing or use cottage cheese as a dressing. I've done that for years. Dressing + protein = WIN. Watch the toppings and you are good to go. So many folks think .. "oh, it's a salad" and choose that instead of a burger. Burgers can be a better choice if your salad comes loaded up with 100s of cals of dressing and other non-veg ingredients. Saw a woman munching on a salad at Zaxby's yesterday. 3 packets of dressing and oiled & grilled Texas Toast. She actually asked me what I was doing when she saw me dump my side salad onto a plate and top it with 5 chicken tenders then drizzled 1/3 of a package of dressing on it. I told her: Making a Salad. She said: I didn't know you could do that - I just buy them already made. Me: I like to control my ingredients. MORE CHICKEN. Less dressing. Zero oily bread.0
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popcorn7225 wrote: »Deconstructed saladworks salad. Romaine turkey swiss egg white and green goddess dressing. The Web site says 450. Actual calories. 1106. Really not cool
So your salad weighed 1106 grams? Grams of food doesn't mean calories of food.
32 grams of peanut butter is 200 calories.
100 grams of lettuce is 15 calories.0 -
LolBroScience wrote: »How do you get that? The website doesn't even have the salad weight in grams. Serving is 1 Salad.
She weighed the ingredients separately I'm guessing.
It's one of the reasons I hate eating out, lol.0 -
LolBroScience wrote: »How do you get that? The website doesn't even have the salad weight in grams. Serving is 1 Salad.
She weighed the ingredients separately I'm guessing.
It's one of the reasons I hate eating out, lol.
I still can't see that coming out to over 1,100 calories. Even if you double everything it's under 900.
http://www.saladworks.com/salad/create-your-own-salad0 -
LolBroScience wrote: »LolBroScience wrote: »How do you get that? The website doesn't even have the salad weight in grams. Serving is 1 Salad.
She weighed the ingredients separately I'm guessing.
It's one of the reasons I hate eating out, lol.
I still can't see that coming out to over 1,100 calories. Even if you double everything it's under 900.
http://www.saladworks.com/salad/create-your-own-salad
Well there was pasta, and that adds up, but I guess OP might have confused cooked and dry weight for pasta.0 -
popcorn7225 wrote: »Deconstructed saladworks salad. Romaine turkey swiss egg white and green goddess dressing. The Web site says 450. Actual calories. 1106. Really not cool
So your salad weighed 1106 grams? Grams of food doesn't mean calories of food.
32 grams of peanut butter is 200 calories.
100 grams of lettuce is 15 calories.
Based on the topic line, it sounds like she is talking calories not grams.0 -
LolBroScience wrote: »LolBroScience wrote: »How do you get that? The website doesn't even have the salad weight in grams. Serving is 1 Salad.
She weighed the ingredients separately I'm guessing.
It's one of the reasons I hate eating out, lol.
I still can't see that coming out to over 1,100 calories. Even if you double everything it's under 900.
http://www.saladworks.com/salad/create-your-own-salad
Well there was pasta, and that adds up, but I guess OP might have confused cooked and dry weight for pasta.
Possibly, can't tell because the diary is locked. If you triple the pasta serving per the website it is still only 650 cals. Pasta serving is 100 cals.0 -
Need2Exerc1se wrote: »popcorn7225 wrote: »Deconstructed saladworks salad. Romaine turkey swiss egg white and green goddess dressing. The Web site says 450. Actual calories. 1106. Really not cool
So your salad weighed 1106 grams? Grams of food doesn't mean calories of food.
32 grams of peanut butter is 200 calories.
100 grams of lettuce is 15 calories.
Based on the topic line, it sounds like she is talking calories not grams.
It sounds like she is attempting to talk about calories and not grams, except the math doesn't seem to quite work out since we're missing a bunch of info.0 -
LolBroScience wrote: »Need2Exerc1se wrote: »popcorn7225 wrote: »Deconstructed saladworks salad. Romaine turkey swiss egg white and green goddess dressing. The Web site says 450. Actual calories. 1106. Really not cool
So your salad weighed 1106 grams? Grams of food doesn't mean calories of food.
32 grams of peanut butter is 200 calories.
100 grams of lettuce is 15 calories.
Based on the topic line, it sounds like she is talking calories not grams.
It sounds like she is attempting to talk about calories and not grams, except the math doesn't seem to quite work out since we're missing a bunch of info.
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Sorry I was really busy and couldn't reply
I ordered the salad deconstructed and weighted each ingredient. I did this at work and didn't bring the figures home with me so I'll have to estimate what they were.
4.5 oz romaine iceburg mix
65g swiss cheese
55 g turkey
86g green goddess dressing (this is the amount in one small container)
45g egg white
115 g cooked Radiatorre pasta
According to their site that would total 442. In my calculations just the pasta alone would be 400 c.
Maybe I'm doing something wrong but I thought it was too good to be true so I decided to look into it. 1100 does sound high BUT 442 sounds way off.
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The pasta you weighed was cooked. It looks to me like the numbers you are using is for uncooked. Cooked pasta is heavier.
If I were guesstimating, the lettuce, cheese, turkey, and egg whites would be 300-325 cals.
According to the USDA, there is 221 cals in 140 g of cooked pasta, so your pasta was @ 180 cals. so you are @ 500 calories without the dressing.
86 grams of dressing is like 6 tablespoons! Most bottled dressings list the serving size as 28 g. There website lists the serving size as 1 oz = 28 gr = 150 cals. So if you used all 86 grams (3 servings), that's @ 450 cals of dressing.0 -
That sounds more accurate is just funny how different the reported calories are from the actual calories. 450 to 950 is a big difference. They list the dressing at 1 container 150cal. Clearly 1 container is not 1oz. My entire office was counting on the Web site being accurate I knew it sounded and tasted to good to be true.0
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4.5 oz romaine iceburg mix -> negligible
65g swiss cheese -> 245 (380 * .65)
55 g turkey -> 55
86g green goddess dressing (this is the amount in one small container) -> 367 (427 * .86)
45g egg white -> 25
115 g cooked Radiatorre pasta -> 170
So...245+55+367+25+170 -> 862
OP's original number is a bit high, but OP is still closer than the label!
That is a ****load more calories than claimed...not cool...0 -
Going to assume that the dressing isn't included on the website numbers. It typically isn't. So it would be 50 calories from the 450 without dressing, which isn't that bad, honestly.
(the salad on the website shows 270 calories or something so I'm not sure where the 450 come from anyway).0 -
popcorn7225 wrote: »That sounds more accurate is just funny how different the reported calories are from the actual calories. 450 to 950 is a big difference. They list the dressing at 1 container 150cal. Clearly 1 container is not 1oz. My entire office was counting on the Web site being accurate I knew it sounded and tasted to good to be true.
When I went to the website and put in just the dressing (not using the create your own option), it gave the serving size of the dressing as one ounce. I think the Create your Own salad option is misleading because it doesn't show you what the serving size for each ingredient is supposed to be. They over-served you a bit on all the ingredients, but it's the dressing that blew up the total. I have to admit, even if I was served 3 oz of salad dressing, I can't imagine actually using that much! But regardless, if you measure out the dressing going forward, I don't think the difference in the calorie count of the other ingredients is out of line. Whenever you have food service workers scooping up portions of food, there are going to be variations.0 -
When I get dressing on the side, there's always more than a serving of dressing in the container. It's not necessarily the case that you'd get that same quantity of dressing if your salad came pre-dressed.0
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Labels should reflect actual usage.0
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Just dip your fork in the dressing then in the salad. You end up using much less but you still get the taste in every bite.0
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This is why I NEVER ever do salads outside. They are marketing scams - they give you the illusion that you're eating healthy foods and unless you honestly crave or love salads you would be sort of 'sacrificing' and trying to make good eating choices. But you've just chewed down 1200 cal of overdressed leaf greens when you'd much rather just chomp down on a big fat juicy burger, an awesome stir fry or some carb dish and feel good about it than a crappy salad.
I only eat the ones I make because I know they are all low cal.0 -
Right! I actually love salad works but if I'm going to eat 1100 c in going to have pizza. Lol. I just think it's crappie of them to not be honest in what they serve. I knew it was too good to be true0
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