What has food shocked you?

jaycee76

Ok so I am full of questions today!

Yesterday (although I stayed in my calories) I had 3 chocolate digestives and was FLABBERGASTERED to discover that 3 measley biscuits had 258 calories! Thats like a whole meals worth of calories!

So just wondering what others have eaten and then realised after that the amount of calories is really high compared to healthy alternatives

(I knew that the biscuits were not healthy but after being really good for weeks it certainly made me see how easy it can be to shove calories down without thinking)

Jaycee x

BoresEasily

Chips and pizza. Of course if you can eat them in moderation it's alright, but I'm unable to eat chips in moderation so I limit myself to once or twice a week and same with pizza. The calories in a slice of pizza just shocked me to the core when I first looked it up. Other things that shocked me were how few calories cucumbers/carrots and salsa have.

BoresEasily

With the exception of Dominos, surprisingly there aren't a lot of calories in a slice from Dominos, at least less calories than in a slice of the frozen rising crusts I enjoy so much.

mccorml

With the exception of Dominos, surprisingly there aren't a lot of calories in a slice from Dominos, at least less calories than in a slice of the frozen rising crusts I enjoy so much.

dominos is actually really bad lol go with the thin crust its the best bet and stay away from dominos pasta bowls 1600 calories in a primavera lol i used to work their

eileenscott

I was surprised how few calories there were in breadsticks. And yes...generally how calorific all my favourite treats are, mmmmmm.....cake.....

catcrazy

My daughter bought home a mudslide pie that served 4 and i was horrified to find 509 calories per TINY portion. That was my first temptation and I resisted it with ease after seeing the calories!

Always pleasantly surprised by the very low calories in veg...always loved veg but have developed a greater love for the green things!

carmen1485

Pastry! I buy (OK, used to buy) the JusRol stuff. There are 2700 calories in one pack and that would be split over 4 meals at nearly 700 calories just on pastry. So that's half my current daily calories in one go. Not going to be happening going forward

kate205gti

carrot cake! i thought carrots were healthy

ickybella

Hobnobs! Why on earth are they so delicious?! Seven grams of fat in one little biscuit. You can have a whole row (5 chunks) of the big, 230g Cadbury Dairy Milk Fruit & Nut for all that fat. Unfortunately, I'd rather have the Hobnobs.

Kate_UK

White crusty bread, It has huge amounts of calories! Makes a bowl of soup a high cal option instead of a low cal one. Grrrrr. But I do love it:grumble:

mrsknash

Have you ever looked up the recipe for carrot cake... you'll soon see why! How can it taste so good though when its made of such awful ingredients?!?! lol

Cheesecake was my shocker - over a day's worth of saturates in one measly slice!

SMJ64

Pasta and rice. not enough flavour for the calorie punch. Pasta used to be a staple for me. Not anymore.

alantin

LoL.
Anything with chocolate has a lot of calories.

Lyadeia

Pasta and rice. not enough flavour for the calorie punch. Pasta used to be a staple for me. Not anymore.

Really? Most of my pasta dishes using 2 oz. (1/8 of the total box) only have between 300-400 total including the cheese I dump on top. Perhaps you just need new recipes. I've found that it's the store bought sauce that will kill you will all the calories and tons of sugar...but making your own sauce with tomatoes and other low cal ingredients plus adding some lean meat like chicken...

Anyway, I've lost weight eating pasta at least 4 times a week for dinner...

Jillyc72

Peanut butter! I knew it was high cal, but my 'guesstimation' of a teaspoon which the jar says is 95 calories was at least double. I actually weighed how much I spread on a slice of bread and from that day forward decided it just wasn't worth it!

Ms_Natalie

oooh yes...cake is naughty! Luckily my fiance works in a cake factory..so I cannot stand the things anymore!

Pies, pasties and sausage rolls were quite frightening to me...but as I've been doing this since April..I don't even look at those naughty foods anymore..

But when I fancy something....I will have it..:flowerforyou:

Lyadeia

I think the biggest shocker for me was the chili cheese fries appetizer from Outback Steakhouse. I KNEW it was bad because it was from a restaurant like that, and it has bad ingredients...but really, 2200 calories per serving?!?!?! What's the point of eating the meal after that???

On a side note, if you make your own chili cheese fries at home by baking the potatoes in the oven without oils and then use some low fat chili and melted Laughing Cow cheese, then it's quite a tasty treat that can fit better into the diary. :flowerforyou:

louloup

I am shocked by the amount of sugar in those yogurt drinks and some yogurts. Some have the same as a can of coke.

NOT WORTH IT :noway:

Lyadeia

I am shocked by the amount of sugar in those yogurt drinks and some yogurts. Some have the same as a can of coke.

NOT WORTH IT :noway:

TOTALLY AGREE!!! I eat Greek yogurt sparingly, but I stay away from all other yogurt unless it is a small amount used in a larbger recipe. Even the "no sugar added" plain yogurts have 15+ grams of sugar!!! No wonder the doctor told my diabetic mom not to ever eat yogurt.

pennfields

i just went and registered a custard cream in my food diary... 57 cals for 1, that explains alot when i used to sit and eat the whole packet after dinner.

jaycee76

i just went and registered a custard cream in my food diary... 57 cals for 1, that explains alot when i used to sit and eat the whole packet after dinner.

Lol I am the same with biscuits - one is only enough when its one packet! Just not fair they have sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo many calories!

alantin

I am shocked by the amount of sugar in those yogurt drinks and some yogurts. Some have the same as a can of coke.

NOT WORTH IT :noway:

TOTALLY AGREE!!! I eat Greek yogurt sparingly, but I stay away from all other yogurt unless it is a small amount used in a larbger recipe. Even the "no sugar added" plain yogurts have 15+ grams of sugar!!! No wonder the doctor told my diabetic mom not to ever eat yogurt.

I eat Linessa fat free yogurt on breakfast. 100g has 40 Kcal, 6g of sugar, and a lot of calcium!

jodie_t

Nuts! love 'em but they are hugely calorific. I also love brown rice but you can only have a tiny amount if you don't want the cals to scare you.

Elaine_NZ

I had a roast beef footlong subway on honey oat with heaps of veges & only honey mustard sauce! 800 calories later,
I also had a bacon & egg pie then logged it in the diary to find out it was 500 calories!
My niece use to have peanut butter on toast for breakfast, she doesnt now after logging it in her diary, we did spent quite some time laughing about it!!

Lyadeia

I am shocked by the amount of sugar in those yogurt drinks and some yogurts. Some have the same as a can of coke.

NOT WORTH IT :noway:

TOTALLY AGREE!!! I eat Greek yogurt sparingly, but I stay away from all other yogurt unless it is a small amount used in a larbger recipe. Even the "no sugar added" plain yogurts have 15+ grams of sugar!!! No wonder the doctor told my diabetic mom not to ever eat yogurt.

I eat Linessa fat free yogurt on breakfast. 100g has 40 Kcal, 6g of sugar, and a lot of calcium!

Sounds good, but I exercise off 600+ calories a day...so my breakfast has to be at least 250 calories which would be at least 6 servings...which would be 36 grams of sugar for me. And adding fruit to a smaller serving would still be sugary for me because of all the natural sugars in fruit. Maybe I could have it on those days I DON'T exercise cause I only need 1200 per day then and could get away with a smaller serving.

alantin

For me its only a part of my breakfast. I usually eat about 200 - 300g (which is a pretty big cup), a banana, and some bread. Today it amounted to 384 Kcal and 36 g of sugar (of which most was the banana..).

I don't have any issues with sugar so I haven't been tracking it. It's just fast carbs and your liver is empty of glycogen in the morning so, I figure, the faster you have some in your blood stream, the better.. :ohwell:

The major benefit in the yogurt is the calcium though. Milk is good too but it too seems to have quite much sugar in it. Lactose I suppose.. Isn't that a sugar? :ohwell: How about finding lactose free yogurt?


Edit:
I suppose the amount of sugar in milk is my newest shock! :laugh:
Well. I knew it was a good option for a recovery drink which means, it has fast carbs in it so the sugar shouldn't be such a surprise..

BoresEasily

With the exception of Dominos, surprisingly there aren't a lot of calories in a slice from Dominos, at least less calories than in a slice of the frozen rising crusts I enjoy so much.

dominos is actually really bad lol go with the thin crust its the best bet and stay away from dominos pasta bowls 1600 calories in a primavera lol i used to work their

According to http://www.dominos.com/pages/calculator.jsp#
Most of their pizzas are about 200 calories a slice. I never said the pizza was healthy. I just said it's a lower calorie alternative than a lot of the other pizzas.

If you want a shock. Check out Subway's nutritional information. EVERYTHING is loaded with sodium. The only healthy sandwiches or relatively healthy sandwiches are the veggie ones.

EmpressB

I'm shocked that a serving of pasta is sooo small!

Shocked that a slice of deli tukey meat is only 30 calories

I'm shocked that whole grain fiber bread is like 110 calories per slice and is even more calories than some white breads

I'm shocked that Dannon's Lite & Fit yogurt is only 80 calories but is in a bigger container than the regular one and tastes exactly the same and doesn't have a weird diet flavor and aftertaste.

Lots of my surprises were good though, in that some foods were a lot less calories than I'd imagine.

kayemme

carrot cake! i thought carrots were healthy

no doubt! so my mom sent me our family recipe for her super delicious carrot cake. when i was preparing it, i realized that in total it had 4 cups (yes, FOUR) of sugar: two in the cake and 2 in the glaze. It also has pineapple and coconut, not to mention >> carrots << which are pretty sweet on their own.

so i cut 1 cup of sugar from the cake, but it was still too sweet. next time, no sugar in the cake at all and half recipe of the glaze. that oughtta fix it. the number was so ridiculous, even at my modified version. my bf & i renamed it "diabeticake"

i gave over half of it away just to get it out of the house. haha!

i remember thinking it was the most delicious cake i'd ever eaten when i was a kid, but now it's really just too sweet to eat much of. i think the thing i like about changing my foods around the most is being able to taste food more sensitively.

SaraTN

4 baby dill valasic pickles had 1120 g of sodium... half of the daily limit!!! I had to do a major water flush after seeing that

emott84

I was shocked by the pickles too. I love pickles, and I thought they'd be a low-cal crunchy treat.

They ARE low-calorie, but the sodium is ridiculous! I guess it makes sense, as they sit in brine, but still . . . it was a sad day