Food help!!!

Xo_healthylc
Xo_healthylc Posts: 77 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
So I am preplanning for my husbands birthday dinner at Outback Steakhouse. I always have the blue cheese wedge salad as my side. I always remembered it being super calorie heavy (it has a wedge of iceburg, tomatoes, onions, bacon, blue cheese crumbles, sweet balsamic reduction and chunky blue cheese dressing) but when I look up the nutritional facts on their website it says it's 110 calories? How is that? What would you track. I searched in my MFP log and the numbers are all over the place.

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  • Xo_healthylc
    Xo_healthylc Posts: 77 Member
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  • dlkfox
    dlkfox Posts: 463 Member
    Just looked it up on their website. It looks like you picked a winner there. I would guess it's pretty accurate. You could always overestimate it by 10% or 20% if you'd like.
  • Xo_healthylc
    Xo_healthylc Posts: 77 Member
    dlkfox wrote: »
    Just looked it up on their website. It looks like you picked a winner there. I would guess it's pretty accurate. You could always overestimate it by 10% or 20% if you'd like.

    Do you think it includes the dressings? In the menu and online it list the dressing with it so I'm not sure why it would be separate.
  • Scaredycat2
    Scaredycat2 Posts: 20 Member
    It doesn't look right to me - unless it's a really tiny portion. 100 Cal of blue cheese & bacon would probably fit easily in the palm of your hand.
  • lulalacroix
    lulalacroix Posts: 1,082 Member
    I really love that salad and remember trying to log it in the past. It does not make sense that the calories listed would include the dressing.
  • Wynterbourne
    Wynterbourne Posts: 2,225 Member
    edited July 2016
    Found an NPR article discussing restaurants reporting erroneous nutrition counts. Researchers actually ordered the food items and sent them off for laboratory analysis to get accurate calorie counts. They actually mention this salad as a exceptionally incorrect listing.

    For example, a blue cheese wedge side salad at Outback Steakhouse was 659 calories richer than the menu noted.

    npr.org/sections/health-shots/2011/07/27/138555722/restaurants-often-miss-the-mark-on-calorie-counts

    So according to them, their order of that salad was 770 calories. *twitch*

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