Fast Food Greater Than 1000 Calories
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I also wonder how many of them are still on menus. I know you can't get the Quad Stacker at most BKs anymore. They only do Double Stackers (a more reasonable 420 calories).0
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This is surprising and eye opening? Ok.
I didn't get fat eating those foods, btw. I got fat from an extra scoop of pasta here and a few extra cookies there, day-in and day-out. For years. What is surprising and dismaying to me is serving sizes of regular everyday foods like cheese and peanut butter. That is enraging
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When I go out to eat with my husband to one particular restaurant, I always get the same meal (because I don't really like anything else on the menu), and it's a 1200 calorie salad. I just plan for it and adjust my calories. I've made many 1000+ calorie homemade meals as well.0
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No... this was not suppose to be surprising other then companies are making smaller meals with more calories. If I ate a hamburger and milkshake I would of expected it to be less then 1000 kcal. Now it can be over 2000.0
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The fun part is, just wrapping any of those burgers in lettuce instead of bread will shave off an absurd amount of calories. A really fun example, that I often eat:
Jimmy John's Gargantuan on French Bread: 1063 kcals.
Jimmy John's Gargantuan Unwich (lettuce wrap): 744 kcals.
That's with absolutely nothing about that hunk of salami, mayo, cheese, and oils changed, except what's containing it.0 -
No... this was not suppose to be surprising other then companies are making smaller meals with more calories. If I ate a hamburger and milkshake I would of expected it to be less then 1000 kcal. Now it can be over 2000.
The examples here are of the largest size milkshake which are HUGE and the huge burgers.
You can get a small milkshake (500 calories) and a number of burgers, including a bacon double cheeseburger, for under 1000 calories.
Eta - at BK for this example.
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At my hairdresser's, she always has those "Eat This Not That' books to peruse. While many of them have some shockingly high food items and a fairly reasonable substitute, one of my pet peeves is when they display something like the total calorie count for an item that is likely meant to be shared (like a plate of Cheese Fries or Bloomin Onion at Outback) compared to an item which is clearly an individual serving.
Eat This! Coconut Shrimp (640 cals)
Not That! Aussie Cheese Fries (2,140 cals) - although the Outback website now says 1,100 cals for the cheese fries, probably reduced the size because of the shock value of these type of infographics...
Now it is likely that even if you split the cheese fries 4 ways, you are still getting a salad and an entree too, so the total meal may end up still being high... But it doesn't seem like a fair comparison to put something that four people could easily share against something that if two people split it, they would be grouchy and hungry.
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No... this was not suppose to be surprising other then companies are making smaller meals with more calories. If I ate a hamburger and milkshake I would of expected it to be less then 1000 kcal. Now it can be over 2000.
If I ate a hamburger and milkshake that I made, sure. But restaurants, fast food or otherwise, are notorious for having a lot of calories in their foods. There is no expectation of anything except expecting a lot of calories.1 -
The 5 Guys meal is totally worth it - the rest, not so much.1
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The BF and I went to Arby's for lunch one day last week. I researched calories, got a 3 piece Chicken Strips (about 400 calories) and a Diet Coke. Filled me up...He on the otherhand got a Small Curly Fry and a Chicken Cordon Bleu Sandwich...1060 calories. Now, he can eat more (he's 6'3 and 190), but still. You wouldn't think a sandwich and fries would be that much. Knowledge is power...and so is nutritional info on websites.0
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No... this was not suppose to be surprising other then companies are making smaller meals with more calories. If I ate a hamburger and milkshake I would of expected it to be less then 1000 kcal. Now it can be over 2000.
These are the largest, most calorie dense portion sizes of the items that most of these places offer... 24 oz shakes, XL fries, multiple patty hamburgers... it is quite possible to eat a small burger and milkshake at any one of these restaurants for less than 1000 cals.4 -
Sweet_Heresy wrote: »I mean if you order something called a "quadruple bypass burger" I assume you know what you're getting yourself into.
(I think I may have clogged an artery just typing that)
I hate how my quadruple bypass burger, sold at a restaurant with calorie counts next to every item (at least that's how fast food is here), has all those hidden calories and sat fat grams! So tricky!
Maybe people should use common sense.
Indeed, I don't see anyone who eats those items complaining that they thought they were low cal and super healthy (in terms of nutrients per calorie).1 -
WinoGelato wrote: »No... this was not suppose to be surprising other then companies are making smaller meals with more calories. If I ate a hamburger and milkshake I would of expected it to be less then 1000 kcal. Now it can be over 2000.
These are the largest, most calorie dense portion sizes of the items that most of these places offer... 24 oz shakes, XL fries, multiple patty hamburgers... it is quite possible to eat a small burger and milkshake at any one of these restaurants for less than 1000 cals.
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There are people that would eat an entire blooming onion and think, hey it's an onion, it won't have alot of calories. But... 1954 kcal.0
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I think by now most people are aware that taking an entire onion, battering it and deep frying it is a snack best shared among friends. When I see people at places offering them, most people are sharing them, not sitting down to eat the whole thing solo.0
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There are people that would eat an entire blooming onion and think, hey it's an onion, it won't have alot of calories. But... 1954 kcal.
Anyone who missed the batter and oil has bigger problems to worry about than their waistline. That requires some outright dementia level *kitten*.3 -
I think by now most people are aware that taking an entire onion, battering it and deep frying it is a snack best shared among friends. When I see people at places offering them, most people are sharing them, not sitting down to eat the whole thing solo.
There are people that would eat an entire blooming onion...0 -
There are people that would eat an entire blooming onion and think, hey it's an onion, it won't have alot of calories. But... 1954 kcal.
The times that I've had blooming onions, I never thought they wouldn't have a lot of calories. They are quite large, covered in batter and deep-fried. I've also never eaten one by myself. When I've eaten them, I shared them with three other people. It's still a lot - 500 calories - but not quite as much.
I'm not saying no one ever thought they were low in calories, but there's no excuse for it now. Most menus at these places have the calories right there next to the food item.1 -
Alluminati wrote: »WinoGelato wrote: »No... this was not suppose to be surprising other then companies are making smaller meals with more calories. If I ate a hamburger and milkshake I would of expected it to be less then 1000 kcal. Now it can be over 2000.
These are the largest, most calorie dense portion sizes of the items that most of these places offer... 24 oz shakes, XL fries, multiple patty hamburgers... it is quite possible to eat a small burger and milkshake at any one of these restaurants for less than 1000 cals.
Absolutely.
Mmm-hmm.
Last time I had fast food was when I stopped at a Culver's after spending the morning biking 60 hilly miles around the Madison area and was on my way back to Chicago.
Got a single Butterburger and small fries, plus a diet coke. Apparently that's 680 calories. If I'd been concerned about calories (I normally have around 500 calories for lunch), I'd have skipped the fries or had a slightly smaller breakfast or dinner than normal, no biggie. I splurge much more than that often enough, and not normally on fast food, which I tend to have about once or twice a year (nothing wrong with fitting it in, though, my preferences are just different).1 -
There are people that would eat an entire blooming onion and think, hey it's an onion, it won't have alot of calories. But... 1954 kcal.
I used to work at Lone Star, and we served both a Bloomin Onion and Cheese Fries. In 3 years of waiting tables I never saw a single person order these to eat alone, and that was before nutritional info was so easily available.
While I wouldn't say never, I would doubt that there are a significant number of individuals would would order a battered deep fried onion and try to claim they didn't know it was going to be caloric because "onion".
If those individuals exist, well... perhaps they should get some common sense and use it. I hardly see how this is the fault of the restaurant or something that the restaurant needs to change on it's menu...3
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