Calorie sticker shock: have you experienced this?

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  • inlander
    inlander Posts: 339 Member
    The salads at Red Robin. It was my birthday dinner last night and I wanted to stay in and cook my own birthday dinner after looking at the calorie count on mere SALADS at restaurants.
  • L2M1D52
    L2M1D52 Posts: 616 Member
    I haven't eaten it since I started eating better. However, I would look up stuff that I previously ate. My shocked moment was with the Portillo's Chicken Ceasar Salad= 1200 calories. Even their hamburger, cheese fries, and italian beef were fewer calories.
  • runbikebreathe
    runbikebreathe Posts: 14
    This summer, I decided to try Coldstone ice cream for the first time after hearing such rave reviews about it. I decided to get the "All Lovin' No Oven" signature creation in the "Like It" size (a small). Although it was good, it wasn't anything to write home about - not to mention that the portion size was much smaller than I expected. I looked it up after I ate it and discovered that it has around 655 calories and 31 grams of fat...for a small! Needless to say, I've been extremely diligent on looking up nutritional information BEFORE I eat something unfamiliar ever since.
  • kschhr
    kschhr Posts: 103 Member
    What's scary is that it probably WASN'T including the fries. I'm always afraid of eating out.. I almost always end up with soup, nowadays. Tortilla is the best from Red Robin or Claim Jumper. :)
  • _Ben
    _Ben Posts: 1,608 Member
    A bowl of icecream, I was shocked, and very very very sad to realize that a real persons portion of icecream was so high. I dont eat icecream, or desert very often, but I was very sad to find this out
  • maremare312
    maremare312 Posts: 1,143 Member
    One of the best things about smart phones! I can look something up before I order!
  • CindyWarner
    CindyWarner Posts: 138
    ^^^^ Try skinny cow's instead. They are only 100 calories. :wink:

    But yes I had East Indian Butter Chicken tonight and ate half of it. 600 cals.
  • NuMe46
    NuMe46 Posts: 128
    Sodium is the shocker for me. Captain D's 1/2 cup of green beans - 500 mg. Also the under 500 calorie menu at Applebee's. All of them are loaded with sodium.

    Reading labels can be a real eye opener. Not just calories, but sugar and sodium are culprits.
  • claire_xox
    claire_xox Posts: 282 Member
    1 Marshmellow =80 calories
    errr never adding 4 of those to my hot choc again!
  • sarahcav123
    sarahcav123 Posts: 128 Member
    Shop-bought sandwiches are so calorific - its so depressing!

    Eating out is such a pain - it takes me so long to order, trying to figure out a ballpark number as to how many calories is in the food. They should have the calories on the menu!
  • sarehhh
    sarehhh Posts: 1
    when in doubt, order meat. that's what i do. i'll get a steak without the butter on top. a 6 oz steak is a 6 oz steak. then double veggies...usually it's under 600. i stay away from salads unless its a side salad then i ask for no cheese, pick off crutons, and get dressing on the side. all the stuff they put on the salad is what kills it.

    Cheese on a salad? :| Yuck!!!!! Salad is nice enough without any extras :)
  • capricorn144
    capricorn144 Posts: 335 Member
    This is a great question and I think it happens to all of us in the beginning when we finally WANT to know what that meal is going to cost us! LOL

    And you nailed the idea of a Calorie Budget. I do really think of it as calorie money for the day...What am I willing to "pay" from my 1300 cals a day? is what I ask myself.

    It really makes a difference if restaurants SHOW calorie counts on menus. You do rethink choices (and sometimes you DO feel it is worth it if you plan for it) and that is what I try to do ....if I know I am going out (not spontaneous choice) I check out the numbers here on the Data Base for that restaurant or something similar. I do have the app on the iPhone so that is handy for the spur of the moment.

    None of us are perfect but we are trying to be better! :flowerforyou:
  • sarad777
    sarad777 Posts: 210 Member
    Worst for me was one cinnabon for 880 calories. I was shocked!
  • carrie1128
    carrie1128 Posts: 267 Member
    Yes, pretty much anything in a restaurant shocks me. I can make a huge home cooked dinner and stuff my self silly for no more than 600 calories but something similar in a restaurant is double that. Chinese food is crazy. I logged if after eating it only to find that my meal was 1300 calories (with only eating half the egg roll!). I wasn't even full either!
  • Papaepic
    Papaepic Posts: 12 Member
    Nice catch on the Pam cooking spray. I had no idea.
  • Hope228
    Hope228 Posts: 340 Member
    One of the best things about smart phones! I can look something up before I order!


    I need one! So tired of my Dumbphone!
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