Full english breakfast: calories?

Lietchi
Lietchi Posts: 6,885 Member
in Food and Nutrition
Does anyone have experience logging a classic British fried breakfast?
Currently traveling in the UK and I'm clueless 😀

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Estimates for the components and/or totality are welcome, if anyone can help 🙂

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  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 49,027 Member
    1000 calories

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  • SafariGalNYC
    SafariGalNYC Posts: 1,579 Member
    edited May 2023
    Log everything individually
    2 slice Bacon
    1 link Sausage
    1 Egg
    Beans - 2 oz?
    Bella Mushrooms ? 2oz?
    Blood sausage 2oz?


    Etc.

    guesstimate the weight of the food items as best you can.

  • Lietchi
    Lietchi Posts: 6,885 Member
    SafariGalNYC wrote: »
    Log everything individually
    2 slice Bacon
    1 link Sausage
    1 Egg
    Beans - 2 oz?
    Bella Mushrooms ? 2oz?
    Blood sausage 2oz?


    Etc.

    guesstimate the weight of the food items as best you can.

    Probably going to try that, but the bacon is different to the bacon I'm used to, as is the sausage. Going to have to Google some UK supermarket brands, I guess, and check their nutritional info 🙂
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    Google says a typical full English breakfast is 800-1000 calories which seems about right to me from my experiences visiting the UK...though your picture looks smaller than anything I was served at the various Bed and Breakfasts we stayed in.

  • lynn_glenmont
    lynn_glenmont Posts: 10,097 Member
    What's the yellow triangle that looks like corn bread at roughly 4 o'clock on the plate?
  • MsCzar
    MsCzar Posts: 1,072 Member
    edited May 2023
    I usually come up with ~1200 by the time I add buttered toast and a second egg. :)
  • SafariGalNYC
    SafariGalNYC Posts: 1,579 Member
    edited May 2023
    @Lietchi

    You had me interested in calories of British bacon :) I’m now a pork belly vs loin pseudo expert. Lol

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  • paperpudding
    paperpudding Posts: 9,304 Member
    lynn_glenmont wrote: »
    What's the yellow triangle that looks like corn bread at roughly 4 o'clock on the plate?

    Looks like a hash brown to me.

    You can buy packets of frozen ready to cook ones that look like that.
  • totem12
    totem12 Posts: 194 Member
    I'm english so used to these - that one I'd eyeball at around 900 calories, but I'd log at least 1000 calories for a full english as things are often cooked in a lot more oil than you'd think. We have calories on a lot of menus now and breakfasts are usually around the 1000 to 1200 mark although often a bit bigger than the one you've posted.

    That is indeed a hash brown, and it is a life changing food group.
  • lynn_glenmont
    lynn_glenmont Posts: 10,097 Member
    paperpudding wrote: »
    lynn_glenmont wrote: »
    What's the yellow triangle that looks like corn bread at roughly 4 o'clock on the plate?

    Looks like a hash brown to me.

    You can buy packets of frozen ready to cook ones that look like that.

    Ah, that makes sense. I was wondering where the potatoes were.
  • andysport1
    andysport1 Posts: 592 Member
    1000

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