What food's calories have you been shocked by?

Pineapple orange juice. It has more sugar than Coke. I thought it settled my stomach when I was nauseous, but it was probably the reason I felt so sick all the time.

Macaroni and cheese, the powder kind. 200 calories for half a cup I think, and that's assuming you don't put extra butter or milk, which I always did.

Dates rolled in coconut. More nutritious than candy but caloric.

Seeds!! Pumpkin, sun, sesame. I loove this on salads. Thought I was doing myself a favor by replacing for nuts!! Well they arent so far off from nuts!!


Healthy grains. Couscous, quiona etc. are "healthier" but from calories not a real difference from rice, pasta

chocolate one dove promise square 1 is 42 calories! Who eats one? Dried fruit apricots 6 apricots 120 calories! adds up quickly!

Icecream & pizza

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

^ this.

and so I only allow myself 2 tsp of it on toast for 1st bkfst sometimes. =-(. been craving it lots with coldstone chocolate ice cream though, gotta figure out something to replace that.

This is what I thought 2 teaspoons of peanut butter looked like, but NO that's two Tablespoons. Way hay hay more cals.


THis is what 2 teaspoons looks like, and it actually tastes good. You notice the taste in every bite even though it's only a thin film, it's enough to flavor the bread and be satisfying...hint, it spreads better when melty from the hot toast.
even thinner though like barely there.

cheese and bread

My favorite coffee creamers. I used to put a good 5 tablespoons worth in my coffee...until I realized that it's 35 calories per tablespoon.

And those little bitty Coffeemate containers of the liquid vanilla fabulousness? 30 calories EACH! YIKES!

I actually measure out a tbsp of creamer every time. I usually have 2-3 a day. My husband on the other hand, pours it in his coffee. One Friday morning, I bought him a bottle of creamer and he used it all by Sunday evening. And no, he's not fat. :grumble:

The food that shocked me was the chocolate chip pecan pie I make. I figured it was bad, but I would have guessed 300-350 cals a slice. Turns out its 605 a slice. Yeesh.

I've been surprised too, but I think that comes from years of watching what I'm eating, on and off. I expect foods that are high in fat (including healthy ones like nuts, avocado, cheese, etc.) are going to be high in calories. I expect denser foods to be higher in calories, and more watery foods to be lower. Of course peanut butter is going to be high, because it's oily! But I can understand that if I hadn't calorie counted before I might be surprised because it's promoted as a healthy food.

Fruit isn't high in calories relative to some things. But again, it's something that's promoted as healthy, and something we're encouraged to eat more of. In fact, some diets allow free consumption of fruit. So yes, I can understand why people are surprised when they find that the calories are significant enough that they are going to have to give up something else that they would normally eat to have that fruit. In fact, I think one of things that caused me to gain weight was that I didn't "count" fruit. But five portions of fruit a day is going to be about 250 - 400 calories - plenty to put on weight if you're eating that in addition to what you would normally eat.

CASHEWS!! and POTATOES!

- Peanut butter
- Muesli
- Granola
- ANY dessert
- Unpitted dates
- Most breads

Wahhh all the good stuff :sad: haha

a wrap! or rice! so high in cals

but sweet potato has low cals

cheddar sesame sticks- over 300 calories per cup!

Nuts of all variety's, v high in cals, v tasty tho and a good fuel source while out training.