OMG. There are SO MANY calories in....

ErinJ1981

Caramel Frappe from McDonalds

How many?

about 1500

HungryMom

an Oberweis chocolate shake. I want to cry just thinking about it. 1300 calories and 76 grams of fat. :sad:

Losing2Live69

Quinoa, great source of protein, but way high calories.

The quinoa I eat (Ancient Harvest) only has 172 calories in 1/4 uncooked. Cooked that fluffs up to 3/4 cup. That isn't a lot of calories. It only has 31 carbs too. That isn't much compared to pasta or rice.

cutmd

I'm with the chips and salsa crew (140 for like a handful? :noway: ). And movie theater popcorn ( small is about 600). If I could eat those, nuts, and gluten free brownies ad libitum I'd be really compliant with my diet... :grumble:

tatiana_13

Milk Duds. I ate the little tiny Halloween size. Which has 3 or 4 milk duds in it. Guess how many calories...wait for it, wait for it...170 calories. For 3 milk duds. That's more calories than half of a giant snickers bar! Try to do the right thing by having a tiny bite size thing, and bam! They fool you. Next time, I'm having a junk food craving...I'll just have half of a snickers bar.

You were misinformed. The teeny box only has 54 cals in it. (Which is still a lot for 3 or 4 milk duds, but much better.) The bigger box (comparable to a full-size single serving candy bar) has 230, and there are supposed to be 13 pcs in there, so about 18 calories per ball.

ETA, sadly, I might be the world's foremost expert on how many calories are in chocolate Halloween candy. Years of experience.

Well. I must be the only person posting/reading in this topic to be *relieved* by what I've read! 54 calories is more like it! I think I got tripped up by how the serving size got multiplied. But thanks! I guess now, however, I don't have an excuse to just go ahead and eat a snickers bar...

MiketotheJ

I don't have a massive sweet tooth, but I love carrot cake with a fiery passion. Used to crush a whole cake (the double layered kind) in 2 or 3 days. Now I know one slice of a single layer cake is 330 cals. I knew cake was bad and expected a big number, but that one hurt.

I use a slice as a reward if I stayed under my cals for a whole week and have room to spare nowadays.

I also work for the corporate office of a small restaurant chain and we're in the process of getting all of our menu items' nutritional information worked up by a third party. I kindly informed my boss that the stuff he thinks is healthy is going to come in really high on the calorie count. He's trying to lose weight, so the numbers will be humbling for him since he eats at one of our locations at least twice a week.

Ersten512

I thought fish was relatively benign but the calories in flounder? Really?

SoDamnHungry

Ben and Jerry's Chocolate Fudge Brownie ice cream. 230 in half a cup. ;_; ...I still ate it.

RllyGudTweetr

Longhorn's 7-pepper steak salad: 510 calories before dressing. So much for being good by having the salad with some protein.

SoDamnHungry

I don't have a massive sweet tooth, but I love carrot cake with a fiery passion. Used to crush a whole cake (the double layered kind) in 2 or 3 days. Now I know one slice of a single layer cake is 330 cals. I knew cake was bad and expected a big number, but that one hurt.

I use a slice as a reward if I stayed under my cals for a whole week and have room to spare nowadays.

I also work for the corporate office of a small restaurant chain and we're in the process of getting all of our menu items' nutritional information worked up by a third party. I kindly informed my boss that the stuff he thinks is healthy is going to come in really high on the calorie count. He's trying to lose weight, so the numbers will be humbling for him since he eats at one of our locations at least twice a week.

I was looking up Baker's Square carrot cake calories. It was more than any of their pie. But soooo good.

ruth3698

Just noticed today b/c I was craving one....small cookie dough blizzard from Dairy Queen...690 calories!!!! OUCH! Will be avoiding those this summer

I checked the calorie count on those recently myself. and to think I used to eat a medium-large on a regular basis! Holy moly!

Love_Is_My_Fuel

Starbucks Venti Peppermint White Chocolate Mocha, full-fat milk with whipped cream - 700 calories! For a drink!

Edited to add: 20 oz. (the hot-drink Venti size) of whole milk is about 370 calories... that means that the other 330 comes from the syrup/flavoring and whipped cream. Good grief!

PEANUT BUTTER.... crazy amount of calories whenever you could have PB2: the best thing ever invented. AND it's deliiiiiiiiiicious

Some things are worth the calories! 2 Tbsp of natural PB is less than 200 calories, and the fat in PB is healthy fat - if you limit your portions, all-natural (no salt/sugar/oil added) PB can be a regular part of a perfectly healthy diet. High Calorie / High Fat does not always equal bad.

Here in Canada, we have light peanut butter...it's only 80 calories per tablespoon..paired with some multigrain crackers you have a snack under 200 calories

AsrarHussain

dominos pizza or pizza hut 1000 calls or so lot of calories or the dough balls 600 or more calories

drezzal

White chocolate mocha from café nero, totally worth it though! lol

Lori0463

SMALL Peach Milkshake from ChickFilA--600!!

That's why I love MFP-I put things in BEFORE I eat them, then I don't eat them. But damn I do LOVE those milkshakes

bonjalandoni

Pecan Pie, 500+ cals per 1/8 slice... sigh

tmauck4472

I adore Sesame sticks but today I noticed they were 19 Grams of fat per 1/3 cup!



I got chinese crackers instead lol

OMG I love Sesame sticks, just mailed some to my momma cause she couldn't find any. Oh just the thought of those used as dippers in some hummus makes me want to dive in and roll around for hours...yum yum

lilacinfinity

A cup of tea with milk & sugar.

There's a lot of database entries for 30-40 calories or so, but for a typical cup of tea here, that's not accurate!

I like a big mugful (as do most NZers) so that's about 100ml of whole milk = 60 calories
And the "teaspoons" of sugar aren't real teaspoons - they're 10g each rather than 4g - cos a home teaspoon isn't an accurate measure AND they're heaped so there's another 77 calories

BOOM, pretty much 140 calories for a drink that the database entries try to tell you is 100 cal less!

KeepOnMoving

I once loved that place, but it just not worth it to go back after reading about their what seems to be healthy menu. Most dishes have enough calories and sodium to last me a week!

Taco Bueno recently got some better choices. But all the original menu items - bad, bad, bad. Ate there today and it was good. Now I need to be good for the next several days.

KeepOnMoving

first paragraph refers to Cheese Cake Factory.

stonel94

PEANUT BUTTER.... crazy amount of calories whenever you could have PB2: the best thing ever invented. AND it's deliiiiiiiiiicious

however peanut butter, like all nuts and nut butters, is high in calories and fat but it's good fat and very nutritious (as long as you're not getting the kind loaded with sugar) whereas the PB2 and reduced fat peanut butters, yes they're lower in calories, but they're worse for you nutritionally. it's better to have less of the good stuff then more of the low fat stuff (unless something is lower fat because its' baked not fried)

fourfiftythree

Ritz crackers! 170 cals for 5 crackers - and I used to polish off half a sleeve, easily, every day with my lunch (15 crackers or so). And if that isn't bad enough, they are loaded with hydrogenated oils. Threw them all in the garbage after I noticed that.

raqdabells73

Cranberry Pecan Chicken Salad from Bob Evans and that is without the dressing on it

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618 calories.

The sodium is even better 1120 mg :frown:

When I learned that my heart just broke ...here I thought I was being health conscious by having a salad.

psykins

Was gonna have a nice drink yesterday...one can of 4Loko is 600 cals!

nvm...

angmarie28

berry cream oreos, I ate 4 yesterday, that was 300 calories. I was sad lol

KGill67

One slice of cheese pizza from the Costco food court = 700 calories. Yikes.

Granted, that is a large slice; if you buy the whole pizza, they cut it into twice as many slices. which makes it a bit easier to control the damage.

metacognition

Zaxby's fried corn nuggets. They're these little things, about the size of the tip of your thumb. I had a few and it turned out over 400 calories. I could have had three corn on the cob and gotten fewer calories !

Also, Costco All american chocolate cake. Ranges from 600 - 1000 calories depending on how you slice it.

Or as I call it - the annoying deficit cake.

BeckyAnne4

Firehouse Subs Large Beef Brisket and Cheddar on White: 1500 calories

Chick-Fil-A Spicy Chicken Biscuit: 450 calories (vs. Egg McMuffin at 300)

Domino's Boneless Chicken: 1200 for the container

McDonalds Large Mocha Frappe: 680 calories

Taco Bell Beefy Crunch Burrito: 510 calories and so delicious it's worth the calories ;-)

unrelated to the thread - kevinthenerd...you're a lions fan...in florida? i must know, how does such a thing occur? i ask as a lions fan who was born and raised in metro detroit.

everyone else, please carry on

sally_jeffswife

I was surprised in some of the salad dressings. And in Peanut butter you would think that would be a lower number. The all natural ones have less but still is quite a few calories for a small amount of it.

DonnaRe2012

Queso and chips at a mexican resturant. I looked it up once and it was like over 2000 calories. -silent sob-

I know....Whenever I go to OTB I allow myself 4 chips and then I literally sit on my hands. Ugh !! They are sooo yummy !!