Guess the Calories
NovusDies
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I will help with the cooking spray - 53 calories.
The whole pan is a single serving and not even all I ate for lunch. If no one gets close by tomorrow I will give a hint.
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I don't see the pictures - is that just my computer?0
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I am horrible at guessing calories, which is why I measure everything I can to the gram. But I'll guess approximately 1000-1200 calories.
I am not a volume eater myself. If I make stirfry I have 250 grams plus 1 serving of white rice for dinner and then I'm full. Snacking is my real downfall. I would easily go back every hour and eat another two Oreos all day long not out of hunger, mostly boredom.1 -
3000
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i reckon about 6000
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Is that one egg or 2? I'm going with 470 or 540.0
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5250
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I'm going to say somewhere around 5500
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487
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Is your glass plate tared out of the full plate weight?1
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What are eggbeaters?0
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maiomaio71 wrote: »What are eggbeaters?
Egg whites with a little coloring and a thickening agent.0 -
maiomaio71 wrote: »What are eggbeaters?
Egg beaters and/or egg whites are a dieter’s friend. You really get bang for your calories.
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548 broken down as follows:
Calories - description - qty
250 Egg Beaters 10 servings @ 25 calories
100 white rice 1/2 c
11 mushrooms 1/2 c
15 broccoli florets 1.5 oz
7 fresh spinach 1 c
96 cocktail shrimp 1 c
8 diced onion 1 oz
8 diced green peper
53 cooking spray
Got me thinking about creative ways to manage calories for volume eating.
Enjoyed the post, thank you!1 -
hansep0012 wrote: »548 broken down as follows:
Calories - description - qty
250 Egg Beaters 10 servings @ 25 calories
100 white rice 1/2 c
11 mushrooms 1/2 c
15 broccoli florets 1.5 oz
7 fresh spinach 1 c
96 cocktail shrimp 1 c
8 diced onion 1 oz
8 diced green peper
53 cooking spray
Got me thinking about creative ways to manage calories for volume eating.
Enjoyed the post, thank you!
No white rice.
That is a 14 inch pan and the final product is just shy of 3 pounds of cooked food so you have to up all of your quantities. The onion for instance is ~6 oz not 1.0 -
Is that cauliflower?
I figured so far 1 bag of shrimp, so about 750g frozen; but about 400g cooked.
This would leave 900g cooked.
The egg beaters (which I thought were full eggs initially), would be about 300g.
So we're down to 600g
I figured about 300g "rice" and 300g for the "rest of the veggies"
But if that's not rice?!?!?!
Boy: that's a tough one!
OK: I give up!
I'll go with: it is relatively not energy dense (egg-beaters, veggies, shrimp which is at 1 Cal per gram at best).
So 1K Cal for the 1300g
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It was riced cauliflower. The shrimp was already cooked. It weighed 198 grams which I logged as 200.
The total weight can be a little misleading. Because there is not much oil and I put 8oz of mushrooms in it the water content remained high but that also makes it more filling. That is one of my staple dishes. I can shave 300 calories off of it when I want or add more to it. It's base version supplies about 60g of protein and 19g of fiber. With the shrimp that is about 120g of protein. I am not saying anyone should eat it but if anyone was curious as to how I eat that is one of the cornerstones and I eat something like it at least 5 days a week. I can change it enough to keep it from getting too monotonous but even if I couldn't it covers so much of what I need that it makes the rest of the day easier. I am, as you probably know, all about easy.
The dish was logged at 772 calories so really any guess 720-820 would have been accurate enough. @fred77 came in closest at 600.
Someone else want to post a dish?2 -
I might this evening - I plan on making fettuccine alfredo for dinner with salmon!1
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Oh and this is a game that would be very hard to get right based on pictures. However in real life situations this is a worthy skill to develop. It is not about getting it 100 percent right but ballparking it or identifying when something is not right. Have you ever gotten a restaurant salad with so much cheese and other caloric toppings that it had to be easily twice the posted calories? I have. In fact I have noticed since covid that some restaurants are being extra generous and some are being extra thrifty with portions and ingredients. Now you can easily turn a blind eye if you rarely eat out but if, like me, you sometimes have so much going on that you end up eating out 3 or 4 times in a week it is worth trying to get it closer.1
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Oh and this is a game that would be very hard to get right based on pictures. However in real life situations this is a worthy skill to develop. It is not about getting it 100 percent right but ballparking it or identifying when something is not right. Have you ever gotten a restaurant salad with so much cheese and other caloric toppings that it had to be easily twice the posted calories? I have. In fact I have noticed since covid that some restaurants are being extra generous and some are being extra thrifty with portions and ingredients. Now you can easily turn a blind eye if you rarely eat out but if, like me, you sometimes have so much going on that you end up eating out 3 or 4 times in a week it is worth trying to get it closer.
I've noticed that. I eat out a lot, too, and heavily customize my food choices, but I do wonder how accurate the food maker is with my requests. For instance, yesterday, I got a chicken burrito supreme at Taco Bell during my walk, and asked for easy on the beans, cheese, and red sauce, which should have put the calorie count at 330 for the burrito. But I couldn't help but wonder how accurate they were. They aren't weight portions back there, just using scoops to approximate a serving, so who knows? IT was probably more calories than that 330 I counted at any rate!
So if I post a picture of my alfredo sauce, so I disclose the ingredients beforehand and let folks guess based on that, or do it like a restaurant and make them just guess from the finished product? lol2 -
Salmon fettuccini alfredo with spinach noodles and fresh zucchini on the side
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4500
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very green and pretty!
no food weight?
real Alfredo or "cut calorie" Alfredo? Salmon origin? (Atlantic farmed, canned pink, canned red/sockeye)?1 -
very green and pretty!
no food weight?
real Alfredo or "cut calorie" Alfredo? Salmon origin? (Atlantic farmed, canned pink, canned red/sockeye)?
56g of spinach noodles, 1 whole can of canned pink salmon, and 8g of homemade "lightened" version alfredo sauce (and really, I don't miss heavy whipping cream at all!)0 -
oh, and I don't bother trying to calculate the amount of trivial fat from the cooking spray used to saute the zucchini, so that's not part of the calculation.
And the whole thing tasted way, way better than it looked! lol
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743 calories0
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Can of pink salmon 310
57g fresh noodles uncooked 210 to 230
zucchini with some provision for oil 50
I would think that Alfredo was more; but was stated as 8g.
Max Cal for that would be 72. On face value it is lightened, so I'll call it 50.
I don't see cheese sprinkled on top
So, eating out I would go with 700+ to account for hidden oil or butter in the sauce and noodles. But, thinking as to who cooked it and the above info especially the only 8g for the sauce... 600 to 650.
My vote: 630
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