how many calories does this look like?

supremekawaiipowers
supremekawaiipowers Posts: 7 Member
edited November 24 in Health and Weight Loss
my mom took me out to a Chinese restaurant with no official calories online. How many calories does this look like?
-3.5 cups of egg drop soup
-2 pieces of sweet and sour chicken
-a fried buscuit
-like 9 sushi rolls. im not sure what they were, but I made sure not to get kinds with lots of sauces. they were either fish/rice or fish/rice/seaweed/avocado? I'd say they were a standard size
-a small watermelon wedge
im hungry again like 2 hours later, so I'm not sure what to do.

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  • zoeysasha37
    zoeysasha37 Posts: 7,088 Member
    It looks like your treat meal for the week. Don't sweat it
  • dredremeg
    dredremeg Posts: 202 Member
    Look up calorieking.com
  • michelle7673
    michelle7673 Posts: 370 Member
    Egg drop soup and sushi should be pretty easy to track; so should the watermelon. The sweet and sour chicken should be relatively easy -- if "two pieces" means "two one plus inch chunks" -- that's probably 2 ounces. You might also see it measured by cups. The "fried biscuit" -- no idea what that is. But if you're hungry again I'm not sure it was all that much food really. Egg drop soup and watermelon are mostly water after all.
  • abatonfan
    abatonfan Posts: 1,120 Member
    supremekawaiipowers wrote: »
    my mom took me out to a Chinese restaurant with no official calories online. How many calories does this look like?
    -3.5 cups of egg drop soup About 250 kcals
    -2 pieces of sweet and sour chicken Apprx 75 calories (depending on the size of the chicken)
    -a fried buscuit About 180 calories
    -like 9 sushi rolls. im not sure what they were, but I made sure not to get kinds with lots of sauces. they were either fish/rice or fish/rice/seaweed/avocado? I'd say they were a standard size About 330 calories (I assumed a california roll)
    -a small watermelon wedge About 60 calories. 1/16th of a melon is about 90 calories
    im hungry again like 2 hours later, so I'm not sure what to do.

    It's about 890-900 calories. The results I got are bolded.
  • niniundlapin
    niniundlapin Posts: 327 Member
    Seems like this meal is mostly composed by carbs (don't get me wrong. I love carbs!) and they won't stay in the stomach for long. Animal proteins usually require longer digestion time in the stomach (0.5-4 hours; white meat is generally digested faster than red meat). Sweet and sour chicken are mostly thick starch, little amount of chicken, and lots of oil and sugar from deep frying and the sauce. It might not contribute to a good portion of protein if you don't want your stomach to be emptied that fast...
  • healthygreek
    healthygreek Posts: 2,137 Member
    Probably over 1000 calories, I would say.
  • The_Invisible_Boy
    The_Invisible_Boy Posts: 568 Member
    What do we win if we guess right?
  • SherryTeach
    SherryTeach Posts: 2,836 Member
    No way to really figure that out. It's quite a of calories. Okay, move on. Drink some water because you loaded up on the salt with that meal. Hope it was good!
  • snickerscharlie
    snickerscharlie Posts: 8,578 Member
    Log it as a 1000 calories and move on. :)
  • shadowfax_c11
    shadowfax_c11 Posts: 1,942 Member
    Egg drop soup 73 calories per cup x3.5 =255 calories
    Chinese Sweet and sour chicken approximately 2 ounces 100 calories
    Chinese Sugar donut 120 calories
    Generic sushi-California Roll 9 pieces 765 calories
    Watermelon raw 1" wedge (approximately 1/16th of mellon 86 calories

    Total 1326 calories

    All of this information was easy to find in the database.
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