Photo! How many calories do you think are in this plate?
EllieElla2015
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Hi!
I’ve been going to a local grocery store with a hot bar for a couple weeks and I generally make this plate every day and curious how many calories you guys think are in it since I don’t have a scale at work. I generally assume the whole plate is around 1,000 calories and I split it into a meal around 1 and another meal around 6. Do you think 1,000 is about accurate?
Hot bar is 12.99/1lb. Today I paid $12.30 so let’s the total amount of food is 1 full pound.
The plate consists of:
1.) Roasted green beans & asparagus (and a carrot lol).
2.) Baked salmon
3.) Piece of skirt steak
4.) Piece of roast turkey slice
5.) A forkful if Mac and cheese
6.) Brown rice
The veggies seam pretty oil soaked
Also I never posted a picture before- I’m sorry if it doesn’t come up properly
I’ve been going to a local grocery store with a hot bar for a couple weeks and I generally make this plate every day and curious how many calories you guys think are in it since I don’t have a scale at work. I generally assume the whole plate is around 1,000 calories and I split it into a meal around 1 and another meal around 6. Do you think 1,000 is about accurate?
Hot bar is 12.99/1lb. Today I paid $12.30 so let’s the total amount of food is 1 full pound.
The plate consists of:
1.) Roasted green beans & asparagus (and a carrot lol).
2.) Baked salmon
3.) Piece of skirt steak
4.) Piece of roast turkey slice
5.) A forkful if Mac and cheese
6.) Brown rice
The veggies seam pretty oil soaked
Also I never posted a picture before- I’m sorry if it doesn’t come up properly
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I don't think it's a bad guess. But, it's hard to even guess without knowing how big the container is, how the food was prepared, etc.4
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I would doubt that's 1,000 calories, but there's not really anyway to know what it is.9
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Bring a scale with you, and ask the people that run the hot bar for all of the ingredients in the items, and input them into MyFitnessPal. Evan than the people who provide this information may not have tracked how much oil was included in the product. For ease of mind I would agree with the other person who mentioned not going through the headache of getting an exact measurement.
I also don't think it's a 1,000 calories, but knowing the exact amount of calories it has would include some research. If you're eating this everyday, and you're okay with the weight you're at I say don't worry. Good luck though.2 -
Doesn't look anywhere near 1000 to me. I'd say 750 max (depending on what they add to/use to cook the meat and veggies).13
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I would guess somewhere around 800. Based on the entire thing being 16 ounces.5
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Tough without perspective to see how big things are, but 1000 is probably too high.
Veggies - 100 calories for cooking oil, don't worry about calories in beans and carrots themselves because of small serving size.
Mac and cheese - 50 calories
Brown rice - looks like 25 grams or so. Call it 30 calories.
Assume 1 ounce of each meat. Turkey - 30 calories. Skirt steak - 70 calories. Salmon - 40 calories.
Random cooking oil - 100 calories.
In total, I would call that plate no more than 400-500 calories.3 -
400-500 cals.0
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Have you tried entering those items in the database with your best estimate of amount to see what it comes up to?4
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There is no way that salmon is only 40 cals! I have salmon on my dinner for tonight. For my salmon (188 grams) is 242 calories alone. If that is even half what I have planned its closer to 100 calories. Probably more.8
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YepItsKriss wrote: »really? 30 calories for rice?
It's almost impossible to tell because the scale of the picture is unclear but brown rice is very slightly over 1 calorie per gram (a normal 1 cup serving is about 195 grams/~200 calories). The picture makes it look like there's about 2 Tablespoons on the plate (again, impossible to really say because of scale), or 1/8 of a cup. Thus, about 25-30 calories.4 -
On first glance the chocolate brownie with salmon and veg seemed weird... :laugh:16
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YepItsKriss wrote: »really? 30 calories for rice?
It's almost impossible to tell because the scale of the picture is unclear but brown rice is very slightly over 1 calorie per gram (a normal 1 cup serving is about 195 grams/~200 calories). The picture makes it look like there's about 2 Tablespoons on the plate (again, impossible to really say because of scale), or 1/8 of a cup. Thus, about 25-30 calories.
Scale is definitely the issue here. To me, that rice looks like it's easily 1/4 to half a cup, which would put us at minimum 60 to 120 calories.
USDA says 1 cup brown rice is 248 calories: https://ndb.nal.usda.gov/ndb/foods/show/6506
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Let this thread be a lesson to all of us: always include a banana for scale.16
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works out as 430g doesn't look 1000 calories I'd say 800 max being on the conservative side. Good amount of protein by the looks of it, nom. ;P1
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If it were me I would also put in about 1000. Better to overestimate. But seriously- nothing wrong with bringing a good scale so you at least know approx grams of each thing. Just a little more or less rice and this could be 500 or 1200 calories0
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collectingblues wrote: »YepItsKriss wrote: »really? 30 calories for rice?
It's almost impossible to tell because the scale of the picture is unclear but brown rice is very slightly over 1 calorie per gram (a normal 1 cup serving is about 195 grams/~200 calories). The picture makes it look like there's about 2 Tablespoons on the plate (again, impossible to really say because of scale), or 1/8 of a cup. Thus, about 25-30 calories.
Scale is definitely the issue here. To me, that rice looks like it's easily 1/4 to half a cup, which would put us at minimum 60 to 120 calories.
USDA says 1 cup brown rice is 248 calories: https://ndb.nal.usda.gov/ndb/foods/show/6506
I compared it with the 'forkful' of mac and cheese. Though you are probably right. I think OP is a little optimistic with her mac and cheese measurements!
I just grabbed the calories in brown rice from a bag of Carolina brand. That says 150 calories per 3/4 cup cooked. Screw it, brown rice is gross anyway.0 -
My guess is closer to 750 kCal.
1.) Roasted green beans & asparagus (and a carrot lol) - 60 cal
2.) Baked salmon - 120 cal
3.) Piece of skirt steak -150 cal
4.) Piece of roast turkey slice - 80 cal
5.) A forkful if Mac and cheese - 150 cal
6.) Brown rice - 100 cal
All that oil is at least 100 calories. Likely more. If I were guessing for logging purposes, I'd put it at 800 and try to build an extra 100-200 calories into my deficit onto the next day in case I guessed wrong.
If I ate it, I would know (based on how it digests) just how much oil/butter I'd be worrying about, but I can't tell that from a picture.
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Well, I can say for fairly certain that the salmon fillet is around 200 calories as I used to have one that size on a nightly basis. I would imagine that plate is between 700-800 calories max, possibly a little less. Just look up the individual ingredients to get a rough idea.2
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Graelwyn75 wrote: »Well, I can say for fairly certain that the salmon fillet is around 200 calories as I used to have one that size on a nightly basis. I would imagine that plate is between 700-800 calories max, possibly a little less. Just look up the individual ingredients to get a rough idea.
How can you tell how big it is?1 -
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800 cals.0
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collectingblues wrote: »YepItsKriss wrote: »really? 30 calories for rice?
It's almost impossible to tell because the scale of the picture is unclear but brown rice is very slightly over 1 calorie per gram (a normal 1 cup serving is about 195 grams/~200 calories). The picture makes it look like there's about 2 Tablespoons on the plate (again, impossible to really say because of scale), or 1/8 of a cup. Thus, about 25-30 calories.
Scale is definitely the issue here. To me, that rice looks like it's easily 1/4 to half a cup, which would put us at minimum 60 to 120 calories.
USDA says 1 cup brown rice is 248 calories: https://ndb.nal.usda.gov/ndb/foods/show/6506
I compared it with the 'forkful' of mac and cheese. Though you are probably right. I think OP is a little optimistic with her mac and cheese measurements!
I just grabbed the calories in brown rice from a bag of Carolina brand. That says 150 calories per 3/4 cup cooked. Screw it, brown rice is gross anyway.
Yeah, to me, that's way more than a forkful. I'd call the mac and cheese at least two tablespoons. If I were logging it, I'd call it 1/4 cup so I could feel better about it and be OK with overshooting.0 -
collectingblues wrote: »collectingblues wrote: »YepItsKriss wrote: »really? 30 calories for rice?
It's almost impossible to tell because the scale of the picture is unclear but brown rice is very slightly over 1 calorie per gram (a normal 1 cup serving is about 195 grams/~200 calories). The picture makes it look like there's about 2 Tablespoons on the plate (again, impossible to really say because of scale), or 1/8 of a cup. Thus, about 25-30 calories.
Scale is definitely the issue here. To me, that rice looks like it's easily 1/4 to half a cup, which would put us at minimum 60 to 120 calories.
USDA says 1 cup brown rice is 248 calories: https://ndb.nal.usda.gov/ndb/foods/show/6506
I compared it with the 'forkful' of mac and cheese. Though you are probably right. I think OP is a little optimistic with her mac and cheese measurements!
I just grabbed the calories in brown rice from a bag of Carolina brand. That says 150 calories per 3/4 cup cooked. Screw it, brown rice is gross anyway.
Yeah, to me, that's way more than a forkful. I'd call the mac and cheese at least two tablespoons. If I were logging it, I'd call it 1/4 cup so I could feel better about it and be OK with overshooting.
Really? I see 4 pieces of pasta... that's only a mouthful!1 -
I dunno but it all looks yummy!0
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My first thought is that really looks like two meals there whatever the actual calorie count.1
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TavistockToad wrote: »collectingblues wrote: »collectingblues wrote: »YepItsKriss wrote: »really? 30 calories for rice?
It's almost impossible to tell because the scale of the picture is unclear but brown rice is very slightly over 1 calorie per gram (a normal 1 cup serving is about 195 grams/~200 calories). The picture makes it look like there's about 2 Tablespoons on the plate (again, impossible to really say because of scale), or 1/8 of a cup. Thus, about 25-30 calories.
Scale is definitely the issue here. To me, that rice looks like it's easily 1/4 to half a cup, which would put us at minimum 60 to 120 calories.
USDA says 1 cup brown rice is 248 calories: https://ndb.nal.usda.gov/ndb/foods/show/6506
I compared it with the 'forkful' of mac and cheese. Though you are probably right. I think OP is a little optimistic with her mac and cheese measurements!
I just grabbed the calories in brown rice from a bag of Carolina brand. That says 150 calories per 3/4 cup cooked. Screw it, brown rice is gross anyway.
Yeah, to me, that's way more than a forkful. I'd call the mac and cheese at least two tablespoons. If I were logging it, I'd call it 1/4 cup so I could feel better about it and be OK with overshooting.
Really? I see 4 pieces of pasta... that's only a mouthful!
It's hard to tell if it's something small, like shells, or if it's something bigger, like celletani. If it's small, there's more than four there (I can see more than four bends), but if it's celletani, I'd call it *maybe* four. Plus, you don't know how deep it is.
Maybe I'm strange (always a possibility), but that's more than a mouthful to me.0
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