What food's calories have you been shocked by?

Rabbit meat! I have raised rabbits for many years but until I started logging my food I had never looked to see how many calories it contained. I was relieved to find out that the protein was double so I guess that makes up for it.

You eat your pets?

Sadly disappointed in milk! Milk was my fav...:frown:

Sandwiches are always a lot more calories than they feel like in terms of satisfaction. If I buy a pre-made sandwich, it's easy for it to be over 300 calories, and I usually like to keep my lunch to around 350-400 calories. So a sandwich and water when I'm on the go, which doesn't keep me full for very long.

I recommend a paleo pizza. You use cauliflower for the crust instead of dough. Works like a charm. Unless you do it wrong...then it's soggy.

Cauliflower? Eew!

Nutricionist told me to have ONE nut before going to bed... ONE????

That's pretty ridiculous. I cannot imagine eating one and not wanting more. For me, that would just be an invitation to pig out. "Well, I already ate more than I was supposed to, so why stop?" I love almonds but I can never eat just a few so I think I have to stop buying them.

Here's one I dont think Ive seen on the list so far: orange juice. 110 calories for one cup, and it's way easy to drink 3 or 4 cups at a time. Before I educated myself, I thought "oh, it's fruit juice, it must be healthy so I can drink as much as I want." Not to mention I love screwdrivers, which are sort of double no-no's now.

Re: Canadian Bacon
Thinly sliced ham is actually a staple for me these days. I've been eating roast ham similar to prosciutto and it's 166 calories for 100 grams and it's pretty satisfying.

Fondue. Seriously, I was thinking "it's just cheese," but I guess I always measure out my cheese before I melt it! I put a half cup of *shredded* mozzarella on top of our eggplant lasagna, but tonight I fully expect to consume a half cup of fondue, which is one third of the package! A whopping 500 calories for one part of my meal. The steak I am serving with it has fewer calories!!

Never mind, I totally messed up the math. - it is "only" 130 cal for a quarter cup, so I will probably get less than 300 calories from it.

Now I need another snack!

I could have made more cheesecake!

The salads you can get from a restaurant like 99 - yikes!!!! healthy but then i couldn't eat anything else the rest of the day!!!

tomato ketchup I was shocked at more the sugar in a tiny amount ,I used to have 2 or 3 big dollops maybe every meal!

Oh my goodness yes! I love ketchup so much, to the point where it's almost kinky. But 20 calories per tablespoon adds up when you use more than 1/4 cup at a time. Using a skimpy amount of ketchup is worse than not using it at all. I thank the artificial sweetener gods that Heinz has a reduced sugar ketchup. At only 5 tablespoons per tablespoon, I can actually use a decent amount.

I love tomato ketchup as well. It bet I used close to 20 Tbsp of ketchup for a steak and cheese with fries. That's a lot of calories and sugar just in the ketchup.

cranberry juice has the same calories pretty much as coca cola

Good call.

I also hate the myth that cranberry juice can help with cystitis/kidney infections - it is so loaded with sugar to make it palatable that it is just about the worst thing you can use and it will actually aggravate it.

I use cranberry supplements - clears the infection in a day if you take one every couple of hours. Don't do that more than a day though, pharmacist says it's no harm, but it still don't seem right

Cheese. I love cheese- especially the extra sharp stuff but it has a lot calories and fat and is just generally bad for you. I still eat it just in smaller, manageable portions.

Zesty Onion Ring sauce from Burger King! Love that stuff, would use 3 or 4 of the little cups every time for my fries and I would slather it on my burger too. After I started MFP I looked it up and its 150 calories of fat! No more Zesty sauce for me :sad:

tortillas, avacados and pecans.

Onions!