What food's calories have you been shocked by?
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Nuts...I love nuts and it's depressing how a small handful of say hazelnuts can add up quickly. I do find I feel happier and eat fewer if I buy them in the shells vs already shelled. Sadly the days of mixed nuts in shells being widely available seem to be over.0
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Nuts...I love nuts and it's depressing how a small handful of say hazelnuts can add up quickly. I do find I feel happier and eat fewer if I buy them in the shells vs already shelled. Sadly the days of mixed nuts in shells being widely available seem to be over.
Yes nuts so much. Before knowing calories I always thought nuts were "healthy" and would eat a bunch of them not knowing how calorie dense they were.0 -
Definitely peanut butter!
This, and it makes me so sad, because peanut butter is delicious and healthy. But I can only allow myself a little each day or I'll ruin my calorie goals
For those of you who absolutely love peanut butter but cringe when you look at the calories/fat, I've been trying this brand called PB2 (I got mine online but Walmart and Sam's club sell it too). It's a powdered form of peanut butter where a lot of the fat is removed. You just add water and it becomes creamy like actual peanut butter. It's not as intense of a peanut butter but hey, I don't feel guilty eating it anymore. 85% less fat 45 calories per 2 tbsp. Another plus is that you can add it to smoothies to make it creamier! (It's comes in chocolate peanut butter too-my favorite!)3 -
Saltine crackers0
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Wine.0
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I love this thread! I am definitely not one of those who thinks that salads are all healthy, but I went to lunch with my sister and wanted to have something that would not totally derail me. When I got home and logged it, turns out the salad was 800 calories! Thank goodness I didn't finish it! Should have had a burger, it would have put me over just the same!1
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crystallambeth wrote: »
Aaaaggggghhhhhh
Not another Halo Top post.
A pox on all who post about Halo Top as those of us in Canada can't get it.
I do have holidays planned in the US and it will be the first thing I buy. And I am going to post all about eating it.
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Everything !!
Two days in and I am looking at even "healthy" food differently. I guess I should check out peanut butter !!0 -
Tacklewasher wrote: »crystallambeth wrote: »
Aaaaggggghhhhhh
Not another Halo Top post.
A pox on all who post about Halo Top as those of us in Canada can't get it.
I do have holidays planned in the US and it will be the first thing I buy. And I am going to post all about eating it.
Not available in the UK either 0 -
Definitely peanut butter!
This, and it makes me so sad, because peanut butter is delicious and healthy. But I can only allow myself a little each day or I'll ruin my calorie goals
For those of you who absolutely love peanut butter but cringe when you look at the calories/fat, I've been trying this brand called PB2 (I got mine online but Walmart and Sam's club sell it too). It's a powdered form of peanut butter where a lot of the fat is removed. You just add water and it becomes creamy like actual peanut butter. It's not as intense of a peanut butter but hey, I don't feel guilty eating it anymore. 85% less fat 45 calories per 2 tbsp. Another plus is that you can add it to smoothies to make it creamier! (It's comes in chocolate peanut butter too-my favorite!)
lol everyone knows about pb20 -
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I was entering rice into my nutrition diary and I was shocked that 1 cup of cooked rice is about 400+ calories!
Wow
I'm not sure that's correct. 1/4 cup of DRIED rice is 150 calories, but that will expand to about 3/4 cup when cooked. So a cup of cooked rice should only be about 215.
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Restaurant food. Even if it's really fancy there's like 90% more oil added to everything than what I would ever cook with.1
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Coffee! I used to drink a caramel swirl coffee daily, then I realized how many calories it was. I was pretty shocked1
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Noreenmarie1234 wrote: »Definitely peanut butter!
This, and it makes me so sad, because peanut butter is delicious and healthy. But I can only allow myself a little each day or I'll ruin my calorie goals
For those of you who absolutely love peanut butter but cringe when you look at the calories/fat, I've been trying this brand called PB2 (I got mine online but Walmart and Sam's club sell it too). It's a powdered form of peanut butter where a lot of the fat is removed. You just add water and it becomes creamy like actual peanut butter. It's not as intense of a peanut butter but hey, I don't feel guilty eating it anymore. 85% less fat 45 calories per 2 tbsp. Another plus is that you can add it to smoothies to make it creamier! (It's comes in chocolate peanut butter too-my favorite!)
lol everyone knows about pb2
This was Safsaf's first comment. It was informative and seemed to have a helpful intent. Keep it up, Safsaf! Not "everyone" on MFP boards has been working on their goals a long time, and readers will appreciate comments like yours. Thanks for adding to the conversation!10 -
Banana's ... I used to eat one every day ... not now!0
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I am back logging again after losing focus for a couple of years. This time I have realised that there is a difference with food being healthy and food being low calorie.
I love nuts as a snack, but it has taken 2 months to separate "healthy" from "low calorie"1 -
Any nut butter, avocado and alcohol.0
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I'm not really shocked by anything anymore, but when I first starting logging/weighing/etc. I was seriously surprised by:
ramen
bananas
hummus
granola
peanut butter
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Lasagna, had to cut my desired portion size down by a quarter0
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Specialty salads in most restaurants. I had a lunch portion sized BBQ Chicken Chopped Salad at Champps today, but had seared Ahi Tuna instead of the chicken on the salad. Almost 700 calories!!! Didn't realize they put the dressing on the salad before they serve it (didn't think to ask, duh!) so it came with the typical amount of salad dressing, I could have saved a lot of the calories if I'd just thought to ask them to bring the dressing on the side!0
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cornbread. I used to devour them thinking it is healthy because it is corn! Until I looked at the label one day and I was literally shocked. They are pretty much the same calorie as chips. The thing is I can't eat more than 2 servings of chips before I get sick of the greasy taste but I can have a pound of corn bread before I even realize it.0
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The Kraft classic mayo is only 35 Calories a serving, at lest here in Australia.Verity1111 wrote: »Mayonnaise *cries* Light just isn't the same! Miracle whip is a little better...
Salmon was a surprise for me. 200g is ~420 Calories with 60% of that from fat.0 -
Surprised at how low cal bacon is.
Also how many cals are in wholewheat pasta!! 250 cal for 75g serving???1 -
Corn Chips!1
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Croutons. Now I know croutons are not healthy in any manner but occasionally I'll indulge and add them to a salad. I had never weighed them until recently. I tared my scale after adding all other ingredients, put on what I thought would be 2 servings, looked down and it was 11 servings worth.
1 serving of croutons = 7g
1 crouton = 7g
1 serving of croutons = 1 freakin crouton!4 -
Two slices of Oscar Mayer Center Cut Bacon is only ~60 calories. Not bad, considering that it's BACON (yum!)
. I'll take the 30 cal hit and cook some veggies with a diced slice of bacon instead of oil or butter most of the time.
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