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Shocked by the calorie content

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  • shellihooten
    shellihooten Posts: 53
    Oriental Chicken salad from Applebee's - Grilled Chicken. According to the website half of the salad is something like 690 calories!!! I almost fell off my chair when I logged that in!

    I worked there when I was in college. I ate that salad all the time (which I thought was healthy) and ran around waitressing and couldn't understand why I was still fat. That's why! Gross!

    I almost feel like Applebee's should put that as a disclaimer...like: Oriental Chicken Salad Only 1,380 calories! WTH lol! I thought I was doing good by only eating half of the salad at the restaurant and then I ate the other half later that night :grumble:

    Agreed! Mind boggling at just how many calories are in restaurant foods and you'd think 'salad' = good for you! So many menus anymore have the calories listed. I rarely eat out, but I sure do watch the calories. Especially when one item can be your whole count for one day!
  • Acg67
    Acg67 Posts: 12,142 Member
    I ate a burger today that had 1400 cals, shocking and tasty
  • vmekash
    vmekash Posts: 422 Member
    WaWa French Vanilla coffee. I cannot remember how many calories, but I do recall being surprised that there were ANY calories in the coffee.
  • kritterxx
    kritterxx Posts: 100 Member
    liquid calories make me horribly angry. I've never been a juice drinker, but cocktails, all kinds of alcohol, and even the odd home-blended fruit smoothie - all not worth the numbers in my opinion. been sticking to water haha!
  • HMToomey
    HMToomey Posts: 276
    Muffins!

    Ditto...they've slowly gotten enormous and it doesn't take a whole lot of looking to find a 700 (or more!) calorie muffin.

    And Pop-Tarts. Just ONE is 220 cals (and who doesn't eat both in the wrapper?)

    I have a box of pop tarts in my pantry and when I haven't come close to reaching calorie goal I will eat a pack. Seriously, people save the second one for later?

    I make my own food 80% of the time but the first time I entered Flour into a recipe I was floored to learn one cup was 440 calories! Oh, and 2 measly tablespoons of frosting is a whopping 200 calories!!! That makes the cupcakes I make look all sweet and innocent coming in at an astounding 700 calories! :sad:

    I so need to stop baking or work out non stop till the end of the year!!!
  • opalescence
    opalescence Posts: 413 Member
    Peanut butter. Picked up a food scale last week... Made a sammie this morning for work. Thought I would add a small amount of peanut butter as I was going to weigh it - over two hundred calories in peanut butter! 90 calories a tablespoon? Me and my new food scale are going to do a lot of falling out. We already have a nasty disagreement about what an ounce of cheese looks like...

    Peanut butter can very good for you though. I eat it every day. gotta definitely watch how much you eat but if ya do it right, its very nutritious. and it tastes good...helps keep me from eating a lot worse junk, lol.

    ^ agreed
  • Graelwyn75
    Graelwyn75 Posts: 4,404 Member
    Bakery cookies, anything from 350-500 calories, ack. And I really like them.
    Choc chunk shortbread, around 400 calories.
    Don't find doughnuts nearly too bad compared to a cookie or shortbread.
    Ben and Jerry;s was a surprise too, really high calorie ice cream but quite addictive.
    And yes, cake, amazing that just a small slice can add up to anything from 600-1000 calories. I used to regularly, like daily, have a piece of the chocolate cake starbucks used to do, and that was about 800 a slice. But fortunately, I rollerskated an hour a day then,and was normal weight as I always have been,
    Cereals are a shocker, I wont buy them now. I cannot deal with the normal portion size so just don't bother.
    Nut cutlets - 280 calories each, I can have 2 wild salmon fillets for the same as one piffling nut cutlet.
    In fact, many veggie things seem calorific, so I stick to my fish mostly.
    Biscuits - some, especially the nice luxury ones at Marks and Spencers are up to 120 calories each. Insane.
  • midgey86
    midgey86 Posts: 7
    Me and my new food scale are going to do a lot of falling out. We already have a nasty disagreement about what an ounce of cheese looks like...

    Hahaha..... sorry but that made me laugh out loud for real.


    haha it made me laugh too. it's so true! i had no idea how much i was eating until i got a food scale!!
  • OlsenG318
    OlsenG318 Posts: 37
    Not that I expected it to be a healthy, low-calorie treat...a medium cookie dough blizzard at DQ is 1,020 cals. Now I can't even look at the mini size without thinking "an hour of cardio to burn you off. I don't need ice cream that badly"
  • opalescence
    opalescence Posts: 413 Member
    We used to go through at least 2 gallons a week between me and hubby... Since MFP we haven't went through two or three gallons in almost 18 months!!!

    I miss milk! :cry:

    I drink it everyday. I still go through 2 gallons a week :0
  • shinjite
    shinjite Posts: 51
    Baked sweet potato chips. I thought they would be healthy since they are baked and not fried. The bag said no additives so should be really low cal right? Wrong. A 10 oz bag - about 6 servings - 5 chips per servings and 200 cals. The chips were not thick either - about the same as regular potato chips. ANd it was super expensive too - $4 for the bag.
    I decided it was much simpler to buy a few sweet potatoes and bake them.
  • paulvt65
    paulvt65 Posts: 73 Member
    How about chocolate mint Girl Guide cookies.... My eldest is in Brownies and we have three cases on the house! The little critters are barely the size of a quarter and pack a mean sixty calories each... I know from experience I can eat half the box - left side or right side, doesn't matter to me - with a mug of tea!
  • 1Kristine1
    1Kristine1 Posts: 697 Member
    How about chocolate mint Girl Guide cookies.... My eldest is in Brownies and we have three cases on the house! The little critters are barely the size of a quarter and pack a mean sixty calories each... I know from experience I can eat half the box - left side or right side, doesn't matter to me - with a mug of tea!
    MMM I LOVE those. Havent had them in a few years but I could probably also easily eat half the box with some milk.
  • Cespuglio
    Cespuglio Posts: 385 Member
    Carrot cake at my local coffee shop... Id have a slice every time I went in and recently found out that EACH SLICE is 1500cals!

    Holy cow! 1500 per SLICE??? That's insane!
  • Treesy72
    Treesy72 Posts: 230
    Carrot Cake is my favorite thing in the world! This thread ruined my life............... :sad:
  • sweetshugbaby
    sweetshugbaby Posts: 3
    Cranberry Walnut cookies!. 170 calories PER COOKIE! I used to down them, maybe 6 or more in a day (if I had them on hand) UNTIL I saw the calories....oh crap. Now I limit myself to no more than 1 or 2 cookies maybe 3x a month.
  • Frozen300
    Frozen300 Posts: 223 Member
    A large cinaplex popcorn with no butter is 1100 calories!! That one really hurt, I love going to the movies....
  • LadyBeryl
    LadyBeryl Posts: 344 Member
    Oriental Chicken salad from Applebee's - Grilled Chicken. According to the website half of the salad is something like 690 calories!!! I almost fell off my chair when I logged that in!
    Yeah, that broke my heart.

    Olive Garden salad/breadsticks. ONE serving is 150 but I can finish an entire bowl. I'm guessing that there are at least 4 servings in that bowl.
  • KB0JWR
    KB0JWR Posts: 11 Member
    Post GrapeNuts..... 400/cup....WOW!!!
  • Frozen300
    Frozen300 Posts: 223 Member
    Post GrapeNuts..... 400/cup....WOW!!!

    Oh yeah! Mini-Wheats!! A serving is like 20 pcs! I counted them out and each one of my bowls (with skim) for breakfast was coming in at 600 cals. I was eating 3 servings without even thinking about it. Breakfast cereal has to be taken with moderation...
  • cautwell
    cautwell Posts: 33 Member
    Madeline's cookies 1 cookie = Calories: 130, Fat: 7g, Carbs: 14g, Protein: 1g
    Golden Butter Madeleines are baked into a delicate seashell shape and have a tender moist flavor. YUM!!

    THIS!!!! omg I loooove these cookies
  • grubb1019
    grubb1019 Posts: 371 Member
    A small DQ vanilla cone. I can't remember what the calories are, but its really high. I can have a 1/2 cup of vanilla ice cream at home for 120, what makes soft serve so dang high in calories?
  • jdennisj
    jdennisj Posts: 53
    Post Grape Nut Flakes are only 110 for 3/4 cup.
  • SunShineBeastess
    SunShineBeastess Posts: 225 Member
    Premade chicken salad...OMG 1 cup = 550 calories with no breade or crackers. :angry:
  • cautwell
    cautwell Posts: 33 Member
    Post Grape Nut Flakes are only 110 for 3/4 cup.

    I eat this a lot, I just add a tiny dribble of honey for sweetness. I can't let go of my cereal!!
  • Frozen300
    Frozen300 Posts: 223 Member
    A small DQ vanilla cone. I can't remember what the calories are, but its really high. I can have a 1/2 cup of vanilla ice cream at home for 120, what makes soft serve so dang high in calories?

    I bet the cone comes close to 100 cals
  • DMTHope
    DMTHope Posts: 5
    Grilled shrimp salad 700 calories...never again!
  • nikkinoonarr
    nikkinoonarr Posts: 101
    Raisins.
    Thought process: "They're like elderly grapes, how many calories can they be?"
    Nearly 500 calories a cup.


    NO WAY! The crinklies are that much! OMFG! No wonder we all need to loose weight!

    For me it was cereal! if one portion is 30g and 30g is like just over a measly spoonful why do they make the cereal bowls so blooming big! I've had many a problem thinking my food scales had broken!
  • angelmma
    angelmma Posts: 33 Member
    I don't go out very often, but I used to like having a drink on a sat night, and get a takeaway and DVD. I wouldve drank rose wine mixed with west coast cooler, until I counted that it was nearly 1400 calories and I tend to snack if I drink wine and would easily polish off a bag of Doritos, pizza and chocolate so now I've decided I'm not drinking unless I go out, cause when I go out I don't eat and only drink vodka with diet soda so I know it's not too bad and I'll goto the gym for a few hours that day. I still have chocolate etc but I'll have a low cal one. I stay away from cereal all together now too cause it's not as healthy as it seems :(
  • Gwenski
    Gwenski Posts: 348 Member
    Peanut butter. Picked up a food scale last week... Made a sammie this morning for work. Thought I would add a small amount of peanut butter as I was going to weigh it - over two hundred calories in peanut butter! 90 calories a tablespoon? Me and my new food scale are going to do a lot of falling out. We already have a nasty disagreement about what an ounce of cheese looks like...

    I love your sense of humour! Yes, indeed measuring brings a lot of things to light. My hubby eats a large jar of peanut butter a week and cant figure out why he isn't losing weight..
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