Food you thought weren't too bad until you logged them?

Brennaohh

1. iced green tea from panera...like 90 calories. green tea barely has calories how the heck does this have that many?
2. meatballs
3. cinnamon buns
4. muffins, the triple chocolate one from Dunks that comes out around valentines day...660 calories!!!!! even splitting with someone its still 330
5. chocolate syrup! just went out and bought some sugar free version today; much better
6. crackers...thought I was being healthy when I picked out WHEAT ritz...still 70 calories for only 5!!!
7. certain smoothies...can be up to 700 calories jeesh!!
8. corn bread...for one tinyy tinyyy square its 200 calories. i love corn bread sadly

the sugar amount in almost everything blows my mind. in a can of iced tea I can easily go over my daily sugar intake...with ONE can

hot chocolates from dunkin donuts

im sure theres way more but nothing else is coming to mind right now

Krissy366

A hamburger patty from Costco. One patty is 6 oz...yet the serving size is 3 oz. That was not a fun revelation.

Ok - things like that just piss me off. Who is eating only a 1/2 burger as a general rule when making it themselves? I've gone out to a restaurant and gotten a ridiculously fattening burger with crazy toppings, etc, and split it with someone and had that be great, but I have never just made burgers at home and had 1/2 of one.

I make half sandwiches and burgers all the time at home because I have major issues with portion control. It seems to be working for me, but the whole juicy delicious blue cheese stuffed burgers are very hard to resist! : )

Oh - I do things like that NOW, but I just mean the average person - who isn't on MFP and who isn't tracking - the assumption isn't going to be that 1/2 a burger is the serving size, so it shouldn't be labeled that. Some things you expect to contain multiple servings, but an item that is 1 piece should be considered the serving, at least for the sake of labeling. Whether that 1 serving size should be the "recommendation" is another story. Perhaps the labeling shouldn't be "serving" in that case, but the more straight forward, "1 patty = ?"

katscoots

That's why when I go out, I check calorie counts and macros on my iPhone before I order! CalorieKing.com RULES!!

Me Too!!!

Flafster

Am really surprised to hear people saying Pho is so much.
It only seems to be about 400 calories. That seems about right for a main meal? I'm on 1300 so it'd be about 1/3 of my intake for the day.

toysbigkid

To all the food makers out there!!! I hope that there are some resteraunt owners, fast food owners, all kinds of food people looking at this thread. People need to revolt about what food we are getting. More choices for healthy living, cheaper choices too! Damn them for putting all this crap in our foods for our kids, people in general !!!! They should be held accountable for the crap they put into food as well as us who got fat and sick from eating this crap and bad choices we have made not knowing what's in food exactly! What do they eat, carrots and broccoli?

karenjoy

I am surprised that so many people are mentioning nuttela like its some sort of healthy thing, but then I read a post that says its marketed differently in the US, how can something that is so obviously crap be sold to you as healthy?

then I saw this

Nutella, the much-loved chocolate-hazelnut spread, is definitely delicious, but not a part of a healthy breakfast, since it contains 21 grams of sugar, 200 calories, and 11 grams of fat per serving. I assume a serving is a smear....why would anyone think that this was healthy?

SunshineT83

Great thread - I had a real eye opener to a lot of things:

- Orange Juice - wow loaded with calories and sugar
- Cheese - had no idea how many calories were in just one ounce of Cheese
- Peanut Butter and Nutella - nut based and fairly healthy, but again - I had no idea how many calories were in just one TBSP of these - I used to habitually eat one or two TBSP of these just walking by the kitchen...

^^^^These exactly, oh and crackers. I love cheese and crackers with a good salami, peperoni, or even hot link. But then I learned that's a no no if I want success. (or at least not the way I used to eat it)

duckfloats

I haven't been shocked by foods themselves, it's more the portion sizes. Restaurant portions in particular are like, three meals worth in one plate. It's insane.

Anything from P.F. Changs. Many of their plates are 3 servings!

http://www.pfchangs.com/menu/NutritionalInfo.aspx

molly_grue

pad thai

halhix

I just had a kid's meal at Chick-fil-a. I had 6 nuggets (grilled mind you) and kid waffle fries. 840 mg of sodium for the grilled chicken (410 calories total) I know this isn't good for me as I don't eat fast food at all but was stuck and had to eat something before a phone call.

Just because the portions are small doesn't mean it won't impact you.

slynn28

subway sandwiches

txlissa62

Deli meats do tend to have a lot of sodium. However, Boar's Head has two options that really are low sodium:

No-salt added turkey meat - 55 mg per serving.
Deluxe low-sodium oven-roasted beef - cap off top round - 80 mg per serving.

Watch out for those that are labeled "lower sodium" - they're still high in sodium.

suzibanshee

Beef Cabana Bowl from Taco Cabana, includes shell, rice, refried beans, romaine lettuce, meat, shredded cheese, pico de gallo, sour cream.

1100 calories. 42 grams fat. 2650 mg sodium. 96 grams carbs. 42 grams protein.

pallypunch

Casa Chicas - Thick & Crispy Tortilla Chips 100% Natural, 3 oz (28 g), I thought that would be OK because they tend to be seen as slightly healthier than the "big bag" brands and are sold at gourmet grocery stores. . . but they are high in calories, carbs and fat. But they are good.

emom3boys

Cake Batter Buddies - too bad I ate way too much of them before I calculated it out. A little isn't bad, but it's addicting and once I start it's hard to stop.

JennsRAQ

anything at Chili's... even the "light" dishes!

I agree!

I do love a Margarita Grilled Chicken there, though. YUM!
Yeah, the Paradise Pie and chips & queso? KILLER cals!

jgondor

popcorn! i never realized how many calories a bag of popcorn has!

Inebriated

I usually pre-log what I eat or keep a mental note of the calories per serving in my head but when I first started logging, the only things that surprised me were potatoes/mashed potatoes. I can't really think of anything else. :ohwell: I was always aware that there was nutrition information on my packaged foods but I never understood much about it until I was about 12-14 years old so I wasn't completely oblivious when I first started logging.

mightyminerva

I was shocked by most snack foods! Dried fruit is supposed to be the healthy option, but it's packed with sugar, and even the "pure" stuff is rather high calorie. I used to get Graze boxes (4 punnets of dried fruit/nuts/seeds/chocolate pieces per box), and one got to me after I'd started MFP. Holy cow! More than 200 calories for most tiny punnets! Never again.

Most carbs were a shock, too.

recreatinghappiness

Bananas!

holy **** i completely agree.. especially considering raspberries have 1/4 the amount of calories they do.. its crazy!!

81Katz

As lame as it sounds, restaurant salads. Pre-MFP I thought I made good choices in picking salads at restaurants, even without things like cheese or croutons on it. Some of the so called 'light' salads wow, LOADS of SUGAR and SALT (really, why does a salad need so much salt?)

Also yogurts. I only eat plain greek now. Crazy how the fruit on the bottom types or flavored ones have so many calories and what not.

kmcgaw

I exercise harder for avocados.... love them...

Me too. Avocados often replace meat in a meal for me. So good for you!

Gwenski

Margarita (around 500 calories)

My homemade green smoothies can top 500 and there's no added sugar. Banana, berries, spinach, soy milk, protein powder, omega 3 supplement, sometimes oats. I have to split them in two or pare way back on ingredients.

I lost 50 lbs. on a WW plan once that was unlimited produce. I'd often eat an avocado a day for weeks and still lose a bunch.

Try 1 ounce of tequila, lime crystal light and about 2 ounces of fresca poured over crushed ice! I know about the sweetener in crystal light.. but dang! a margarita for 74 calories once in a while! I'm all for it!

alyson820

Margarita (around 500 calories)

My homemade green smoothies can top 500 and there's no added sugar. Banana, berries, spinach, soy milk, protein powder, omega 3 supplement, sometimes oats. I have to split them in two or pare way back on ingredients.

I lost 50 lbs. on a WW plan once that was unlimited produce. I'd often eat an avocado a day for weeks and still lose a bunch.

Try 1 ounce of tequila, lime crystal light and about 2 ounces of fresca poured over crushed ice! I know about the sweetener in crystal light.. but dang! a margarita for 74 calories once in a while! I'm all for it!

Just ONE ounce?

MontanaNinja

The amount of sugar in yogurt. I love yogurt and thought I was eating something good for me. Light yogurt has half the calories.

mistymamas

Starbucks fancy coffee!

mistymamas

And Sunflower seeds

ohnuts14

Subways! They always talk about it being so healthyyy so I never really thought about what I ordered. When I started logging my sandwiches, I could NOT believe how high the calories were. Half a sandwich isn't horrible, but for some reason, I don't find their sandwiches fill me. I always needed to get a foot long, and most of them close in anywhere from 700 to even almost 1000 calories. I could notttt believe it. I just don't get subways anymore. I don't know what it is about their food, because I usually can't finish sandwiches. But something about theirs just makes me hungrier.

shavon007

Juice

jminette

A burrito I got a couple times a week at a place on campus.

Over 900 cals. -____-