Caloric cakes?!

speyerj

Doughnuts, store bought cake and cupcakes, inferior cookies, mass produced american chocolate - none of it is worth it. Now, homemade baked goods or really good chocolate - that's worth logging.

And I agree about Granola - who knew?? It seemed so innocent with the rolled oats and flax seeds.

kimny72

kshama2001 wrote: »

Hannahwalksfar wrote: »

wmweeza wrote: »

snickerscharlie wrote: »

The first time I actually weighed my beloved peanut butter, I cried.

I still have it occasionally but gone are the days of just spooning it out of the jar!

I use PB2 powdered peanut butter. Mix with a bit of water or add to foods and it quells my PB cravings

Is that lower cal!?! I didn’t realise

IMO, it's also lower taste, and expensive.

I still eat real PB, just less of it and less often. I did give up my daily PB and banana smoothies

I would agree with this. I can use PB2 in something I just want some PB flavor in, like a smoothie or yogurt that already has a bit of fat. But to me, part of the awesomeness of nut butter comes from the texture, and that comes from the fat.

Terytha

virginiajharris wrote: »

French fries! I mean I'm not an idiot, I knew they weren't like eating a salad. But one time I had some extra calories available and so decided to grab some Arby's. I was not expecting a small curly fry to be as many calories as a whole sandwich. Stupid delicious fried potatoes!

I was pretty floored by that too. I used to get chicken fingers and fries for lunch from this one restaurant and somehow the fries have more calories than breaded fried chicken.

I oven roast my own now.

Strudders67

Definitely pasta. Especially when I realised that all the nutrition info was for cooked pasta not dry weight. I'd happily weigh 100g (dried) and then throw in an extra handful. I've just cooked 60g of conchiglie (to fit my available calories) and it was hardly worth using my medium-sized saucepan.

However, when I pre-logged my meal, I'd picked the Sacla pesto from my Most Frequent list. When I got the jar out of the cupboard, I realised I'd bought the reduced fat version and instead of 32g being something like 135 calories, it was 63. If I'd known that earlier, I'd have had more pasta! Adding more chopped courgette to the diced chicken I was stir-frying wasn't quite the same.

Hyacinth_Hippo

almost everything surprised me when I got a food scale! I decided that caramel popcorn (or any candy coated popcorn) was just not worth it! I was also shocked by how many calories are in the dessert type yogurts and how much of those calories are just sugar

kimny72

Calorie counts for many of the fast food dairy desserts blew me away and pretty much eliminated them. Specifically DQ Blizzards (honestly any of the DQ stuff except for a mini sundae or a plain cone) and McD's shakes. I mean, they're good, but they're not that good.

I'm the type of person who can weigh out one serving of Ben & Jerry's, fit it in my calories and be satisfied. So no reason to put a small container of frozen dessert in my hand with like 800-1000 cals I can suck down without a second thought, after I've already eaten a decent amount of calories in my meal! I of course knew they weren't diet food, but until I understood calories and started looking at that info, I had no idea how crazy the numbers were.

GrizzledSquirrel

I’m shocked by the calories in a lot of stuff, but the one that simply isn’t worth it for me is pasta. It’s the one thing I just avoid. Mainly because:
- I can smash several portions in one sitting because it is so delicious and comforting
- I can’t help but match it in its weight with cheese and/or olive oil
- It doesn’t even touch the sides, so I always overeat it, leaving me feeling overfull, sad and guilty
- A few hours later, it’s like I inhaled air and I am hungry again.

Zero upside for me. Wish I could eat it in moderation, but it’s easier as a no-go.

Sad.

GrizzledSquirrel

ghudson92 wrote: »

Peanut butter. Pasta. Bread. Ice cream. Chocolate. Gin. Everything that brings me joy makes me fat

Gin and a slimline is like 60 cals. Go wild with a few slices of cucumber too. Total booze bargain IMO. Fill your boots!

aokoye

Hyacinth_Hippo wrote: »

almost everything surprised me when I got a food scale! I decided that caramel popcorn (or any candy coated popcorn) was just not worth it! I was also shocked by how many calories are in the dessert type yogurts and how much of those calories are just sugar

Carmel corn is probably the one thing that I've decided to nearly cut out from my diet. I will eat it on occasion, but that's only if I've exercised a large amount that day and have an excessively large amount of calories left, or did the same the day prior but didn't eat back enough calories. I have weighed out portions of caramel corn before and yeah - those are some small portions.

That said, I might try my trick of keeping portions in the car and bringing one inside once a day. I don't typically eat in the car and I don't enjoy going to the car just to get a snack from it thus it works for me.

Katmary71

Peanut butter and ice cream. I had a Costco cranberry orange scone recently and almost threw it up when I saw it was around 550 calories, it was good but not half a day worth of calories good!

Pipsqueak1965

Peanut butter. Cake. Cheese. Pasta and rice aren't too bad - I can get by with 50-60 grams, potatoes aren't bad, oven chips are ok too. Gin and diet tonic is great value, prosecco is pretty good too.

ExistingFish

Ice Cream is reserved for special treats. The days when you have enough calories left for two "servings" of ice cream...heaven

Pasta is not as regular of an occurrence as it used to be. Also, as a previous poster has mentioned, 1.5 servings satisfy well and isn't a huge caloric burden. I also load up on the fibrous vegetables when eating pasta, so I feel fuller faster.

snickerscharlie

wmweeza wrote: »

snickerscharlie wrote: »

The first time I actually weighed my beloved peanut butter, I cried.

I still have it occasionally but gone are the days of just spooning it out of the jar!

I use PB2 powdered peanut butter. Mix with a bit of water or add to foods and it quells my PB cravings

Tried it, wasn't a fan. I'm the type who'd rather have real peanut butter (or ice cream, or cookies or...) once in a while, than be able to eat the so-so stuff more often.

texasredreb

I love that Costco sheet cake! I have it once a month for a monthly birthday get together with friends. I have my one piece and enjoy the hell out of it.