What food's calories have you been shocked by?

droneofvelvet

Nothing surprises me anymore, but at first:

-Bagels (290)
-Cheese (90 cals for 1 small oz of feta)
- Hummus (Love this stuff, but it adds up when you eat a desirable amount)
-Boba (It is pure half and half with sugar..must be 1200+++ for a large cup).
- Fried foods (I avoid all deep fried foods since December. I believe these are very inaccurately estimated because every food absorbs oil differently and it adds hundreds if not thousands of calories to a dish.)

amyplaysflute

Definitely anything eating out. I'll go over a day's calories in one meal at your average restaurant.

vlmay1955

I was shocked at peanut butter (like a lot of other people here). But what I am doing now is mixing it with Walden Farm's Zero Calorie Peanut Spread. Which is NOT made out of peanuts, it's made out of vegetables. I don't understand how it can have zero calories....but anyway, it doesn't really taste like peanut butter, but is sort of similar and actually tastes pretty good mixed with peanut butter. So I make a sandwich out of peanut butter, Zero Calorie spread, and fruit and put it on 35-calorie-per-slice Healthy Life Bread and it's not bad!

lizlkbg

Stupid little pieces of candy like those peppermints you get for free at restaurants and dry cleaners. 20 cals? NOTWORTHIT.

onyxgirl17

Zesty Onion Ring sauce from Burger King! Love that stuff, would use 3 or 4 of the little cups every time for my fries and I would slather it on my burger too. After I started MFP I looked it up and its 150 calories of fat! No more Zesty sauce for me :sad:

Exactly!!

laserturkey

I was actually surprised in a good way that a small creme brulee isn't the huge calorie bomb I thought it was. The onion rings and campfire sauce from Red Robin are a big shocker, though.

k011185

granola... I was getting an organic, high fiber kind, thinking I was being all well behaved eating it for breakfast.
1 cup of it with 1/2 cup milk was just over 700 calories.
(obviously different types of granola aren't as high)

laserturkey

I was shocked at peanut butter (like a lot of other people here). But what I am doing now is mixing it with Walden Farm's Zero Calorie Peanut Spread. Which is NOT made out of peanuts, it's made out of vegetables. I don't understand how it can have zero calories....but anyway, it doesn't really taste like peanut butter, but is sort of similar and actually tastes pretty good mixed with peanut butter. So I make a sandwich out of peanut butter, Zero Calorie spread, and fruit and put it on 35-calorie-per-slice Healthy Life Bread and it's not bad!

I tried that Walden Farms stuff and I found it so horrible I went to the trouble of writing an angry letter to the company. They never responded. Oh well.

Maybe mixed with enough other stuff it would be edible.

honey_bee_keysha

Cheese and nuts

sarahmcp3

Wraps or pita bread. I love them and thought I was being healthy replacing bread with them. A large 12' wrap ( like they use to make wrap sandwiches in restaurants) is 350 calories! And that's before you add anything else to it. Say you're making a burrito, cheese, rice, beans, well there goes all the days calories.

I found these Josephs pita shells which are reduced carbs and are made with flax. They are smaller but at 60 cals a pop I can make mexican again without feeling super guilty.

awdrgy

Check again on the strawberries. They are about 50 calories per cup.

shoewhore

Fruit Juice is always a shocker. Especially if your watching your sugar levels as well.

meaningful99

A slice of pizza at Costco. Holy crap, that's a lot of calories!

ladiablo

Polska Kielbasa! I make an AWESOME polska kielbasa meal that I thought would be do-able while eating healthier... but... it turns out one package is 1400 freaking calories!! I make a dish with rice that serves 4 people. Each serving is like 700-800 calories .

Shadowknight137

Cream.

Seriously, early last year I was so nutritionally uneducated (no idea what a calorie was ) and after coeliac diagnosis replaced my usual milk and weet-box breakfast with a bowl of cream, macadamia nuts and honey. ^_^

TheConsciousFoody

SMALL chocolate hazelnut milkshake from Burgerville. It was 590 calories. I had no idea they could pack that many calories in one tiny little cup. Btw it was totally worth the extra workouts I had to do! I only get to gave it once a year so meh.

almondnuts

Nuts. I love nuts.

kellehbeans

Not sure how many people in the UK are, but I walked into a Tesco and bought a chicken salad sandwich on brown bread. However, the calories stated 495. Odd, I thought. Considerably high for a chicken salad sandwich. I tried to find the right nutrition value on MFP but could only find one with 350 calories. WHY have they added 50% more calories?!

Minerva624

SMALL chocolate hazelnut milkshake from Burgerville. It was 590 calories. I had no idea they could pack that many calories in one tiny little cup. Btw it was totally worth the extra workouts I had to do! I only get to gave it once a year so meh.

Those are so amazingly delicious. I had one a few weeks ago and sadly it tasted pretty bland because the person who made it just didn't make it good, I suppose. I want to grab another one before they go out of season,

Mara_

In dairy. I used to drink a liter full fat milk a day, so that are many calories. Now I don't drink or eat dairy anymore, because I have an intollerance.

Oh, and yesterday I bought a cookie, triple chocolate and all, freakingly delicious: 484 calories! But hey, worth it .