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  • Posts: 106 Member
    Tortillas shocked me - I suppose they're thin but dense!
    Fruit juice did also, which is a shame as a non-drinker - I would have several glasses on a night out instead of alcohol, but no longer :frown:
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    I agree, and nuts in general.

    YES NUTS!!
  • Posts: 164 Member
    Granola and peanut butter.. Yummy, but some days i can't justify such calories!!
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    I've just started seeing them available online in South Africa but I haven't found them in any shops yet. Our postal service is notorious for "losing" packages so I'm waiting to see it in the shops.

    I'm going back to the US for a few months in 2013 & I'm excited about the availability of all the things I can't get in SA. :)

    I'm sure this has been mentioned: but put the kernels in a brown paper bag and pop into the microwave for 1.5 - 2 minutes. You have to watch it carefully, or it WILL burn. Works like a charm.
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    I make mash with light marg, light sour cream and skimmed milk. Tastes yummy but less cals and fat. :)

    Also try a low sodium chicken broth. Emphasis on the LOW. And flavor it with herbs and spices.
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    Panera sandwiches. A couple of their chicken sandwiches had over 50g of fat last time I chrcked. How the heck do you hide 50 g of fat in a chicken sandwich that's not even fried???
  • Posts: 257 Member
    Nuts, olive oil and peanut butter!
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    Sodium in deli meats, they might be less fat but damn , I usually go for the boar head or less sodium brands.
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    Honey-roasted cashews, anyone? 1200 calories a can, and - trust me on this one - I could eat the whole can without thinking about it.
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    Sandwiches!!! Sad.
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    Beer and Hard Cider. One of my favorite beers has almost 200 calories in a 12oz bottle. My favorite hard cider has almost 300 calories in a 12oz bottle. I drink them sparingly these days, but will never give them up.
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    This = amazing. I couldn't agree more.

    And...this is why MFP works so well for me...you see food for what it is.

    Canned fruit is another shock factor food...most are empty calories.
  • Posts: 890 Member
    butter. I love real butter but it is shocking.

    ^ This.
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    electric eel.
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    go buy her a bottle of fat free ranch.....lol.....
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    Half and Half....I love it in my coffee....and I take it light and it is WAY to many calories....I've switched to skim. boo

    Even fat-free? I accidentially bought fat-free creamer the other day and used it to make hot cocoa on the stove, not realizing it wasn't the full-fat version. It was so good I wouldn't have known otherwise had my husband not made mention that I'd mistakenly purchased fat-free creamer. Maybe it will work for you?
  • Posts: 1,837 Member
    I once picked up a jar of mole (chocolate-chili sauce) in the grocery store, and the label said 300 calories per tablespoon. That can't be right! Even butter isn't 300 calories per tablespoon, is it? Or is it?
  • Posts: 1,103 Member
    butter. I love real butter but it is shocking.

    No, it's not! Butter is only 35 cals per "pat". What's shocking about that? I eat butter on my food all the time.
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    go buy her a bottle of fat free ranch.....lol.....

    Bleh; can't recommend it.
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    Actually everything!! Before I educated myself on portion and eating healthy...I used to just eat...if I ate a a medium plate of pasta insterad of a big one I thought i was doing myself a favor!! Little did I know I was eating over 1000 calories in that one meal...right before bed in most cases...I guess you could say I was SHOKED by how many calories are in pasta.
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    Have you looked into buying a hot air popper for popcorn?

    You might not even need to do that. If you have a good quality non-stick pan or pot with a lid, you don't need the butter or oil. Just make sure you preheat the pot/pan first. I did that just yesterday on the stove top and added the butter only after it was popped.
  • Posts: 623 Member
    Chick fil a sauce
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    SUBWAY sandwiches are FULL of sodium!!!!!!!!!!!! FULL,and that's with regular meat,cheese and veggies on whole wheat bread...
  • Posts: 2,502 Member
    And this is why people are overweight. Not actually understanding the total calories for a food, drink, etc. has left people wondering why they gain weight.
    You can eat whatever you want, you just have to understand how to do it with limitations.

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    I think that might sometimes be true, but it's not true for everybody. I've dieted before, so I had a fair understanding of the calories in the foods that I ate day to day. I DID misunderstand how many calories I needed to maintain. I think that in my case, I put weight on because I was roughly eating an average woman's calories, and needed less than average.

    I'm just mentioning this because I think a lot of overweight and obese people are serial dieters and are more aware than some of the amount of calories in food.

    Having said all that, the one food that really caught me out was watermelon. I hadn't eaten it on a diet before and had never checked the calories. I had an idea of other melons but for some reason, I'd told myself that watermelon was mainly water and so I overate on that!
  • Posts: 5 Member
    Cafe Rio salads (fast, fresh food in Utah and the west). Sadly, the pork salad comes in around 1800-2000 calories. ARGGGHHHH!!!
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    I was also shocked when I first realized that onions and peppers counted as veggies...I always though of them as condiments. That was years ago :)
  • Posts: 17 Member
    Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches!! 240 calories D:
  • Posts: 50 Member
    I'm always more shocked by all the chemicals in commercial food. I can make my own ranch dressing without all the preservatives or whatever else they have to put in there to make it shelf stable. The older I get, the more that kind of grosses me out. I'd rather a balsamic vinaigrette with my salad. I'm generally ok with the calores from fat, but wouldn't down an entire jar of sunflower butter or anything. I don't let the fat calories from food stop me from eating them, but high fructose corn syrup? Red dye 40? Yeah, that stufff grosses me out.

    Eh, we all have our *thing*. :-)

    AGREED- food like substances are starting to gross me out, working towards a more whole food/primal lifestyle.. Fat is not the devil... sugar is..

    But for me... the shockers were, nuts, seeds, dried fruit, granola.
  • Posts: 238 Member
    rice.
  • Posts: 228 Member
    Salads at a restaurant.

    Quesadilla Explosion is over 1300 calories FOR A SALAD and it comes with a vinaigrette!!!! >.< appalling
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