Empanadas?

cathy120861

I am going out to dinner tonight, and know that the main course will be empanadas. No nutritional info is available, so i am looking for any general rules of thumb. Baked, i assume, will be better for me than fried. I would have thought chicken would be lower calorie than beef, but when i looked a few of them up on MFP, some of the chicken ones had way more calories. Any advice would be much appreciated.

cityruss

You aren't going to get accuracy.

Chicken may be lower calorie than beef, but maybe the chicken one listed on MFP has 200 calories of something different in.

Whatever you choose, find comparable items from somewhere with published nutritional data, log it, carry on with life knowing that any discrepancy will not have an appreciable effect on long term goals.

Also, Empanadas look a lot like a Cornish Pasty, which is a traditional food staple from my part of the world. Cool.

http://southamericanfood.about.com/b/2010/03/25/empanadas-and-cornish-pasties.htm

Kalikel

^^ They're the same general thing as a pasty. ^^

If it's a restaurant, I look up a few and take the highest-calorie restaurant I you can find. If it's a home, I log any restaurant one and figure that'll be higher. Whatever you do is cool. When you don't know, the estimate always has to be a guess.

Most important, enjoy your empanadas!! Don't let your calorie concern invade your meal.

Queenmunchy

I'd guess the larger ones to be 250-300 calories (beef or chicken) and the mini to be closer to 100 calories each.