What food's calories have you been shocked by?

Ramen noodles, eat the whole block, 390 calories.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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!

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

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

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.

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!

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.

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!