What food's calories have you been shocked by?

Chameleongal

Ramen noodles, eat the whole block, 390 calories.

Yup! And to think I considered this a "snack" between meals!

Natashaa1991

granola

dacra

Sushi. and not fried either! I was just curious the other day about how many calories were in one Crunchy Shrimp roll, come to find out it was almost 1/2 of my daily intake of cal's I freaked out! How can 1 small roll of Sushi have 500+ Calories??! So upsetting I could eat sushi everyday..

Me, too! I could probably live off sushi and it still shocks me when I enter in my rolls and they are so much!!! Who eats one roll in the first place? haha

Sballard418

Ranch Dressing....holy crap I might as well just eat the lettuce plain who just eats two table spoons. When I realize how much I used to use like half a bottle I was probably up around 600 calories...and I thought salads were healthy :embarassed:

ladyrider55

Restaurant Foods! :mad: :explode: MFP let's you check foods prior to going out to eat, that's Cool! :happy:

millipedey

granola

oh yes! i love granola and i knew it was high in sugar, but i didn't realise quite how much!!

MinisterTom

This might seem silly to some, but I was surprised at pop tarts. 400 calories for both pastries that come in each wrapper.

I ate those all the time as a kid and my wife keeps them in the house because she snacks on them like crazy. I used to have them once in a while too, but man, they are NOT filling enough to be worth 400 calories.

I can't believe it took 11 pages to get to pop tarts.

millipedey

also, flapjacks. i used to have a big yogurt coated one for a snack... 550 calories :O i only go for tiny ones now!

mrincredible93

Walnuts shocked me.
PB2 is pretty good as a replacement for peanut butter but you need to add a pinch of salt when mixing to make it taste more like regular peanut butter.

raecork

Big eye opener when you enter in a fast food meal. whopper combo ( my favorite burger) 1700 calories when you add in the drink and fries. I wish I would have entered it before I ate it, I would have eaten a salad or just said no. really a full days calories on one meal. Even if it is my favorite, it is so not worth that.

badmojo108

The chips from Chipolte. I never get them for myself, but last night they gave me an extra bag so I ate them before checking, big mistake 570 calories! Almost as much as my burrito bowl.

syringa54

Ya, ministertom, OMG 400cals for Poptarts. Evil little F*&%$*! I

wrgawife

Biscuits... Popeye's biscuits are 260 for 1 i know read lobsters has to be more that that !!! ugh!!

bella51708

Apples. I have had some 200+ calorie apples depending on weight. I know that is not a lot of calories, but it still shocked me.

Peanuts. Cashews. All nuts actually.

I've decided that nuts are nothing more than a fat delivery system.

Actually, nuts are a great, healthy snack if you measure out your portion. I'm under a doctors care and being monitored with my weight loss and she suggest I use peanuts and/or almonds as snacks to keep me full between meals. Really good healthy fats. You just can't over-do it and eat the whole jar.

bella51708

For me, the biggest shocker was Olive Garden meals. That is by far my favorite restaurant, but most of the meals I would get were 1400-2000 cals JUST in the entree. That did not include the salad, breadsticks, and dipping sauce I would eat with it. Even the salad there is crazy high in calories due to the dressing they put on it.

I still have it, but it's like twice a year now and only for special occasions.

cld111

I have another one, but going the other way. I am always happily surprised to enter in 1/2 cup of plain greek yogurt (2% fat). It seems so decadent, but yet it's only 85 calories!

LoversSong

Flavored Water! helps me drink more water but seriously! Oh and out of curiosity i looked at chupa chups lollipops 46 cal each this was a surprise as i thought it would be WAY MOre!

HardRockCamaro

Anything at Wagamamas restaurants. If you can find any main course under 1000 cals you're doing well.

The difference between cheap ready meals (eg chicken curry with rice) which are often 900 cals or more vs a more upmarket version at 450.

Low fat stuff like a lot of low fat yoghurts that have 2 or 3 times the amount of cals than other low/zero fat ones.



On the flip side I've been surprised at how much lower the cals were in some products in McDoanlds and KFC (at least in the UK) then what I was expecting. Yes I know they're still not good for you, just saying on a pure calorie level...

hgycta

Fruits and just about everything from restaurants x.x
It's such an eye opener to see how oversized the portions at restaurants tend to be even when they don't look like it!
French fries from fast food also shocked me, as well as milkshakes. Needless to say, I always try to stick to salad and an occassional ice cream cone if going out xD

seif0068

Same here! I was just going to post that!

Mock_Turtle

something must've went wrong:

Strawberries are only 32 cals per 100 grams

http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/fruits-and-fruit-juices/2064/2

use a food scale and match stuff up by weight, that 1 cup input has to be wrong

WannaDizzolve

Sonic's SuperSonic Double Cheeseburger with Mayo. Over 1200 Calories! That's more than a day's food.

sissiluv

Grapes! A serving of them, according to one calculation in the food database, is more than a single orange???
Huh?

Also the Safeway Value Meals.

ldbuster0

Ranch chicken wings from Walmart. I thought fried wings were about 100 or so each. After I ate 4 and I put it in MFP, the total was 720 calories. Ouch!!!!!!!!

Mock_Turtle

pasta - I was so clueless about portion sizes

some of the fleshy fish like salmon and black cod has high fat content - but the taste is worth it imo so i just have to combo it with a low cal side

as for junk / fast food

CINNABON ! 1 of those has like ~ 900 calories. I would've guessed 500. I mean I know they were high cal but damn, 1 cinnabon = 3.5 donuts wtf!

ThinnieAtHeart

Apple - 55 cals
Regular Oatmeal - 100 cals
Banana - 100 cals

So sad , I love them all :frown:

benol1

I would say peanuts.
Last week I made a vegetarian pad thai and the recipe required peanuts. When I got home and started registering the recipe, I noticed that it said that 20g = 100 cal. I measured out 20g on my scales and was shocked to see how few peanuts, like less than a third of a mouthful!
In fact, I was damned surprised by the calorific content of a supposed healthy meal option. But, most of the calories were in the rice noodles and crushed peanut garnish.

And the other surprise was dried cranberrries. I can't remember how many calories they contain off-hand but it was enough of a shock not to go near the open packet I've got in the refrigerator.

supersparklies

I basically ate a whole DQ icecream cake and then realized each slice was about 500 calories. Oops.

Resa52

For me it was the muffin that I occasionally had for breakfast. 650 calories!

And the cheese that I usually eat 5-6 slices of at a time is 150 cal a slice. OMG!

Resa52

My husband has always gotten a french silk pie from Perkins for his birthday that we demolished within 24 hours. This year we're tracking and found that EACH PIECE contains like 750 calories. Oops...