How to figure calories per pizza slice from local pizza chain?
absoluttalent
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Just curious, but is there a pizza calculator to figure out calories per slice of a pizza from local chains based on pizza size (10, 12, 14, 16+"), thin crust and toppings?
Everything Im seeing is for the big chains with thick crust (papa johns, pizza hut, dominos, etc..)
Kinda hard to figure it out also since the stuff listed for those big companies is per slice, and the slices are triangles. And this stuff is square cut and obviously smaller. Or any good rule of thumbs to use?
Everything Im seeing is for the big chains with thick crust (papa johns, pizza hut, dominos, etc..)
Kinda hard to figure it out also since the stuff listed for those big companies is per slice, and the slices are triangles. And this stuff is square cut and obviously smaller. Or any good rule of thumbs to use?
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Honestly, we try to only order from the chains that have published information these days for just this reason, and I always over eat on pizza. A good rule of thumb would be take what you think it is, and assume you are under-estimating by 50% or so.
If you wanted to get a bit more accurate, you could order a similar pizza from one of those big chains, weigh it, then you'll know the 'calories per gram' number, and you could probably safely apply that math to similar pizza from a local place.1 -
Pizza Hut has thin crust. A slice is usually 1/8. You should be able to get pretty close from that.0
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I just look for big chains that have a similar style of pizza and guess.1
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If you find an entry for a large-chain equivalent-style thin crust pizza that you trust (checked against chain's website, or with many user confirmations),
X/Y (A*B)
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1/Z (pi * r-squared)
where X = the number of slices you ate
Y = the number of slices in your total pizza
A = one side of your rectangular pizza
B = the other side of your rectangular pizza
Z = the number of total slices in the chain pizza
pi = 3.14
r-squared = the square of the radius of the chain pizza (e.g., 36 for a 12-inch circular pizza, 64 for a 16-inch circular pizza, etc.)
Equation will yield the number of servings of the chain pizza (assuming the serving is one slice) that you should log.3 -
I weight it and compare the contents to a chain store in terms of cheesiness, thickness of crust and topping distribution. Then I log it based on the entries for the chain store as percentage of a serving. It's not terribly precise.1
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Domino's also has thin-crust, square-cut pizzas. Just find something similar and ballpark it.0
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lynn_glenmont wrote: »If you find an entry for a large-chain equivalent-style thin crust pizza that you trust (checked against chain's website, or with many user confirmations),
X/Y (A*B)
________________
1/Z (pi * r-squared)
where X = the number of slices you ate
Y = the number of slices in your total pizza
A = one side of your rectangular pizza
B = the other side of your rectangular pizza
Z = the number of total slices in the chain pizza
pi = 3.14
r-squared = the square of the radius of the chain pizza (e.g., 36 for a 12-inch circular pizza, 64 for a 16-inch circular pizza, etc.)
Equation will yield the number of servings of the chain pizza (assuming the serving is one slice) that you should log.
You made my head hurt.LOL.
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lynn_glenmont wrote: »If you find an entry for a large-chain equivalent-style thin crust pizza that you trust (checked against chain's website, or with many user confirmations),
X/Y (A*B)
________________
1/Z (pi * r-squared)
where X = the number of slices you ate
Y = the number of slices in your total pizza
A = one side of your rectangular pizza
B = the other side of your rectangular pizza
Z = the number of total slices in the chain pizza
pi = 3.14
r-squared = the square of the radius of the chain pizza (e.g., 36 for a 12-inch circular pizza, 64 for a 16-inch circular pizza, etc.)
Equation will yield the number of servings of the chain pizza (assuming the serving is one slice) that you should log.
I feel like I should have paid attention more in school.. It's like one of those word problems that would come up on a test.
Anyways. As the others have said. Find something similar in the database and go from there.
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Lol.....I hate math.
Thanks for the replies0 -
frankiesgirlie wrote: »lynn_glenmont wrote: »If you find an entry for a large-chain equivalent-style thin crust pizza that you trust (checked against chain's website, or with many user confirmations),
X/Y (A*B)
________________
1/Z (pi * r-squared)
where X = the number of slices you ate
Y = the number of slices in your total pizza
A = one side of your rectangular pizza
B = the other side of your rectangular pizza
Z = the number of total slices in the chain pizza
pi = 3.14
r-squared = the square of the radius of the chain pizza (e.g., 36 for a 12-inch circular pizza, 64 for a 16-inch circular pizza, etc.)
Equation will yield the number of servings of the chain pizza (assuming the serving is one slice) that you should log.
You made my head hurt.LOL.
+1. But I still wish I could figure it out. Or at least new what a "rectangular pizza" is, let alone its sides.0 -
I use the SWAG method (scientific wild *kitten* guessing!).
As others have said, find what seems a close and reasonable match in the database and go with that. Assuming you're not eating this pizza nightly, it's not going to make or break your progress.
I have a lot of local spots that we hit on a regular basis, so generally at least once a week I'm totally guessing on cals, but I've still managed to reach my goals and maintain my fat loss for several years now without busting out of all my new smaller clothes.
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I like the guesstimating then adding 50%. Here's why: my son has had type 1 diabetes since he was a baby. The amount of insulin he takes depends on how many carbs he eats. It took a few years to figure out restaurants. What we end up doing now is guessing on the carbs and adding about 50%. That almost always works. We even have to do this with restaurants that have published nutritional information. Restaurant foods can somehow pack an extreme amount of calories and carbs in food that we would never guess could be there. It works well for us with carbs so I bet adding 50% to your guesstimate would work with calories as well.0
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frankiesgirlie wrote: »lynn_glenmont wrote: »If you find an entry for a large-chain equivalent-style thin crust pizza that you trust (checked against chain's website, or with many user confirmations),
X/Y (A*B)
________________
1/Z (pi * r-squared)
where X = the number of slices you ate
Y = the number of slices in your total pizza
A = one side of your rectangular pizza
B = the other side of your rectangular pizza
Z = the number of total slices in the chain pizza
pi = 3.14
r-squared = the square of the radius of the chain pizza (e.g., 36 for a 12-inch circular pizza, 64 for a 16-inch circular pizza, etc.)
Equation will yield the number of servings of the chain pizza (assuming the serving is one slice) that you should log.
You made my head hurt.LOL.
+1. But I still wish I could figure it out. Or at least new what a "rectangular pizza" is, let alone its sides.
She also made my brain hurt...but I just got done a long study sessions so any more thinking period would make my brain hurt at this point.0 -
If you ask them not to cut it, does the whole pizza count as one slice?0
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Pizza Hut, Dominoes and Donatos all have thin crusts.
Whenever I have to log something from a restaurant, I pick a chain and log theirs. There is no way to know if it's close to the same, but it allows me to log something. For pizza, I'd probably pick Pizza Hut.1 -
i also eat at local pizza spots and they are ny style so the slices are like 2x that of pizza hut etc... but the crust is was thinner so I usually log a pizza hut thin slice and times it by 2.0
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Lol, yah, I just tell myself one slice of pizza is 1 thousand calories. xD0
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frankiesgirlie wrote: »lynn_glenmont wrote: »If you find an entry for a large-chain equivalent-style thin crust pizza that you trust (checked against chain's website, or with many user confirmations),
X/Y (A*B)
________________
1/Z (pi * r-squared)
where X = the number of slices you ate
Y = the number of slices in your total pizza
A = one side of your rectangular pizza
B = the other side of your rectangular pizza
Z = the number of total slices in the chain pizza
pi = 3.14
r-squared = the square of the radius of the chain pizza (e.g., 36 for a 12-inch circular pizza, 64 for a 16-inch circular pizza, etc.)
Equation will yield the number of servings of the chain pizza (assuming the serving is one slice) that you should log.
You made my head hurt.LOL.
+1. But I still wish I could figure it out. Or at least new what a "rectangular pizza" is, let alone its sides.
OP said the slices at the local pizza place were square, so I assumed it was a rectangular pizza -- not a circle of dough, but dough formed into a rectangle. I don't think I've ever seen a pizzeria slice a circular pizza into square slices. The sides are the edges. A*B is the formula for the area of a rectangle (four-sided figure whose edges all meet in right angles), where A is the length and B is the width (or vice versa ;-)1 -
lynn_glenmont wrote: »
OP said the slices at the local pizza place were square, so I assumed it was a rectangular pizza -- not a circle of dough, but dough formed into a rectangle. I don't think I've ever seen a pizzeria slice a circular pizza into square slices. The sides are the edges. A*B is the formula for the area of a rectangle (four-sided figure whose edges all meet in right angles), where A is the length and B is the width (or vice versa ;-)
I've never seen square cut pizza come from anything other than a round pizza? Even little ceasars, pizza hut, dominoes, etc... If you order a square cut pizza.....its from a round pizza. You end up with a few triangles too
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This is from a fairly famous St. Louis pizza place - the super thin crust, round pizza but cut into rectangles, with provel cheese instead of mozzerella is St. Louis style pizza. ETA that the edges have some triangles in them too... yeah geometry!
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Little Caesar's:lynn_glenmont wrote: »
OP said the slices at the local pizza place were square, so I assumed it was a rectangular pizza -- not a circle of dough, but dough formed into a rectangle. I don't think I've ever seen a pizzeria slice a circular pizza into square slices. The sides are the edges. A*B is the formula for the area of a rectangle (four-sided figure whose edges all meet in right angles), where A is the length and B is the width (or vice versa ;-)
I've never seen square cut pizza come from anything other than a round pizza? Even little ceasars, pizza hut, dominoes, etc... If you order a square cut pizza.....its from a round pizza. You end up with a few triangles too
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lynn_glenmont wrote: »frankiesgirlie wrote: »lynn_glenmont wrote: »If you find an entry for a large-chain equivalent-style thin crust pizza that you trust (checked against chain's website, or with many user confirmations),
X/Y (A*B)
________________
1/Z (pi * r-squared)
where X = the number of slices you ate
Y = the number of slices in your total pizza
A = one side of your rectangular pizza
B = the other side of your rectangular pizza
Z = the number of total slices in the chain pizza
pi = 3.14
r-squared = the square of the radius of the chain pizza (e.g., 36 for a 12-inch circular pizza, 64 for a 16-inch circular pizza, etc.)
Equation will yield the number of servings of the chain pizza (assuming the serving is one slice) that you should log.
You made my head hurt.LOL.
+1. But I still wish I could figure it out. Or at least new what a "rectangular pizza" is, let alone its sides.
OP said the slices at the local pizza place were square, so I assumed it was a rectangular pizza -- not a circle of dough, but dough formed into a rectangle. I don't think I've ever seen a pizzeria slice a circular pizza into square slices. The sides are the edges. A*B is the formula for the area of a rectangle (four-sided figure whose edges all meet in right angles), where A is the length and B is the width (or vice versa ;-)
It's a thing that even the chains have picked up in the last year or so - must have been getting a lot of requests for it, I guess.
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I take the calories for the thickest, butter laden style pizza i can and use that.
Pizza here always looks like ->
Kinda hard to tell but usually it is SUPER thin and crispy (the "crust" you see is likely hollow and crisp") with little cheese.
I use the calories for a pizza hut/dominos monstrosity like this->
Just to be safe.
Better to over than under estimate IMO0 -
I like NY style pizza. Therefore, I weigh it and look for an entry of New York Style Pizza.
However, Margherita Pizza from Costco is only about 400 calories for almost half a pizza... doesn't taste the same but it works for me. 0 -
I should've specified. It was a round pizza thin crust cut into squares. Chicago pizza places have been doing that for as long as I can remember. The only pizza that comes naturally in triangles are the ones from the national chains, anything thick crust/double dough, and any Chicago style deep dish (which I miss like crazy). Thin crust always round pie with square pieceslynn_glenmont wrote: »OP said the slices at the local pizza place were square, so I assumed it was a rectangular pizza -- not a circle of dough, but dough formed into a rectangle. I don't think I've ever seen a pizzeria slice a circular pizza into square slices. The sides are the edges. A*B is the formula for the area of a rectangle (four-sided figure whose edges all meet in right angles), where A is the length and B is the width (or vice versa ;-)
That's how we like it round these parts dagnabit0 -
absoluttalent wrote: »
I should've specified. It was a round pizza thin crust cut into squares. Chicago pizza places have been doing that for as long as I can remember. The only pizza that comes naturally in triangles are the ones from the national chains, anything thick crust/double dough, and any Chicago style deep dish (which I miss like crazy). Thin crust always round pie with square pieceslynn_glenmont wrote: »OP said the slices at the local pizza place were square, so I assumed it was a rectangular pizza -- not a circle of dough, but dough formed into a rectangle. I don't think I've ever seen a pizzeria slice a circular pizza into square slices. The sides are the edges. A*B is the formula for the area of a rectangle (four-sided figure whose edges all meet in right angles), where A is the length and B is the width (or vice versa ;-)
That's how we like it round these parts dagnabit
I would use this calorie calculator from Domino's: https://www.dominos.com/en/pages/content/nutritional/cal-o-meter.jsp
Their thin crust pizza is a round pizza cut in squares, so it should be pretty equitable.0 -
WinoGelato wrote: »This is from a fairly famous St. Louis pizza place - the super thin crust, round pizza but cut into rectangles, with provel cheese instead of mozzerella is St. Louis style pizza. ETA that the edges have some triangles in them too... yeah geometry!
Love St. Louis style!
In staying on topic I'm doing the same as most. Last one was 2 pizza Hut slices for the one local thin crust, at least the toppings looked the same.0 -
lynn_glenmont wrote: »OP said the slices at the local pizza place were square, so I assumed it was a rectangular pizza -- not a circle of dough, but dough formed into a rectangle. I don't think I've ever seen a pizzeria slice a circular pizza into square slices. The sides are the edges. A*B is the formula for the area of a rectangle (four-sided figure whose edges all meet in right angles), where A is the length and B is the width (or vice versa ;-)
I think it's a Midwest thing. I'm originally from Noo Yawk, so I was horrified to discover that yes, they cut thin crust circular pies that start out 18" across into tiny squares around 3" to a side. They're messy to eat. SMH.
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Donatos cuts round pizzas into square shapes. It leaves little triangle pieces here and there, but it's more pieces (smaller, but more) for people at work to share. Most pizza places do the old cuts, forming big triangles, though.lynn_glenmont wrote: »frankiesgirlie wrote: »lynn_glenmont wrote: »If you find an entry for a large-chain equivalent-style thin crust pizza that you trust (checked against chain's website, or with many user confirmations),
X/Y (A*B)
________________
1/Z (pi * r-squared)
where X = the number of slices you ate
Y = the number of slices in your total pizza
A = one side of your rectangular pizza
B = the other side of your rectangular pizza
Z = the number of total slices in the chain pizza
pi = 3.14
r-squared = the square of the radius of the chain pizza (e.g., 36 for a 12-inch circular pizza, 64 for a 16-inch circular pizza, etc.)
Equation will yield the number of servings of the chain pizza (assuming the serving is one slice) that you should log.
You made my head hurt.LOL.
+1. But I still wish I could figure it out. Or at least new what a "rectangular pizza" is, let alone its sides.
OP said the slices at the local pizza place were square, so I assumed it was a rectangular pizza -- not a circle of dough, but dough formed into a rectangle. I don't think I've ever seen a pizzeria slice a circular pizza into square slices. The sides are the edges. A*B is the formula for the area of a rectangle (four-sided figure whose edges all meet in right angles), where A is the length and B is the width (or vice versa ;-)
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rainbowbow wrote: »I take the calories for the thickest, butter laden style pizza i can and use that.
Pizza here always looks like ->
Kinda hard to tell but usually it is SUPER thin and crispy (the "crust" you see is likely hollow and crisp") with little cheese.
I use the calories for a pizza hut/dominos monstrosity like this->
Just to be safe.
Better to over than under estimate IMO
Yeah I had a pizza this week with a super thin crust and had no idea what entry to use.0
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