What food's calories have you been shocked by?

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  • droneofvelvet
    droneofvelvet Posts: 290 Member
    Nothing surprises me anymore, but at first:

    -Bagels (290)
    -Cheese (90 cals for 1 small oz of feta)
    - Hummus (Love this stuff, but it adds up when you eat a desirable amount)
    -Boba (It is pure half and half with sugar..must be 1200+++ for a large cup).
    - Fried foods (I avoid all deep fried foods since December. I believe these are very inaccurately estimated because every food absorbs oil differently and it adds hundreds if not thousands of calories to a dish.)
  • amyplaysflute
    amyplaysflute Posts: 91 Member
    Definitely anything eating out. I'll go over a day's calories in one meal at your average restaurant.
  • vlmay1955
    vlmay1955 Posts: 100 Member
    I was shocked at peanut butter (like a lot of other people here). But what I am doing now is mixing it with Walden Farm's Zero Calorie Peanut Spread. Which is NOT made out of peanuts, it's made out of vegetables. I don't understand how it can have zero calories....but anyway, it doesn't really taste like peanut butter, but is sort of similar and actually tastes pretty good mixed with peanut butter. So I make a sandwich out of peanut butter, Zero Calorie spread, and fruit and put it on 35-calorie-per-slice Healthy Life Bread and it's not bad!
  • lizlkbg
    lizlkbg Posts: 566
    Stupid little pieces of candy like those peppermints you get for free at restaurants and dry cleaners. 20 cals? NOTWORTHIT.
  • onyxgirl17
    onyxgirl17 Posts: 1,722 Member
    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:

    Exactly!!
  • laserturkey
    laserturkey Posts: 1,680 Member
    I was actually surprised in a good way that a small creme brulee isn't the huge calorie bomb I thought it was. The onion rings and campfire sauce from Red Robin are a big shocker, though.
  • k011185
    k011185 Posts: 320 Member
    granola... I was getting an organic, high fiber kind, thinking I was being all well behaved eating it for breakfast.
    1 cup of it with 1/2 cup milk was just over 700 calories.
    (obviously different types of granola aren't as high)
  • laserturkey
    laserturkey Posts: 1,680 Member
    I was shocked at peanut butter (like a lot of other people here). But what I am doing now is mixing it with Walden Farm's Zero Calorie Peanut Spread. Which is NOT made out of peanuts, it's made out of vegetables. I don't understand how it can have zero calories....but anyway, it doesn't really taste like peanut butter, but is sort of similar and actually tastes pretty good mixed with peanut butter. So I make a sandwich out of peanut butter, Zero Calorie spread, and fruit and put it on 35-calorie-per-slice Healthy Life Bread and it's not bad!

    I tried that Walden Farms stuff and I found it so horrible I went to the trouble of writing an angry letter to the company. They never responded. Oh well.

    Maybe mixed with enough other stuff it would be edible.
  • honey_bee_keysha
    honey_bee_keysha Posts: 773 Member
    Cheese and nuts
  • sarahmcp3
    sarahmcp3 Posts: 31 Member
    Wraps or pita bread. I love them and thought I was being healthy replacing bread with them. A large 12' wrap ( like they use to make wrap sandwiches in restaurants) is 350 calories! And that's before you add anything else to it. Say you're making a burrito, cheese, rice, beans, well there goes all the days calories.

    I found these Josephs pita shells which are reduced carbs and are made with flax. They are smaller but at 60 cals a pop I can make mexican again without feeling super guilty.
  • awdrgy
    awdrgy Posts: 1
    Check again on the strawberries. They are about 50 calories per cup.
  • shoewhore
    shoewhore Posts: 4 Member
    Fruit Juice is always a shocker. Especially if your watching your sugar levels as well.
  • meaningful99
    meaningful99 Posts: 174
    A slice of pizza at Costco. Holy crap, that's a lot of calories!
  • ladiablo
    ladiablo Posts: 42 Member
    Polska Kielbasa! I make an AWESOME polska kielbasa meal that I thought would be do-able while eating healthier... but... it turns out one package is 1400 freaking calories!! I make a dish with rice that serves 4 people. Each serving is like 700-800 calories :/.
  • Shadowknight137
    Shadowknight137 Posts: 1,243 Member
    Cream.

    Seriously, early last year I was so nutritionally uneducated (no idea what a calorie was :D) and after coeliac diagnosis replaced my usual milk and weet-box breakfast with a bowl of cream, macadamia nuts and honey. ^_^
  • TheConsciousFoody
    TheConsciousFoody Posts: 607 Member
    SMALL chocolate hazelnut milkshake from Burgerville. It was 590 calories. I had no idea they could pack that many calories in one tiny little cup. Btw it was totally worth the extra workouts I had to do! I only get to gave it once a year so meh.
  • almondnuts
    almondnuts Posts: 2
    Nuts. :/ I love nuts.
  • kellehbeans
    kellehbeans Posts: 838 Member
    Not sure how many people in the UK are, but I walked into a Tesco and bought a chicken salad sandwich on brown bread. However, the calories stated 495. Odd, I thought. Considerably high for a chicken salad sandwich. I tried to find the right nutrition value on MFP but could only find one with 350 calories. WHY have they added 50% more calories?!
  • Minerva624
    Minerva624 Posts: 577 Member
    SMALL chocolate hazelnut milkshake from Burgerville. It was 590 calories. I had no idea they could pack that many calories in one tiny little cup. Btw it was totally worth the extra workouts I had to do! I only get to gave it once a year so meh.

    Those are so amazingly delicious. I had one a few weeks ago and sadly it tasted pretty bland because the person who made it just didn't make it good, I suppose. I want to grab another one before they go out of season, :/
  • glitteratthesea
    glitteratthesea Posts: 104 Member
    In dairy. I used to drink a liter full fat milk a day, so that are many calories. Now I don't drink or eat dairy anymore, because I have an intollerance.

    Oh, and yesterday I bought a cookie, triple chocolate and all, freakingly delicious: 484 calories! But hey, worth it :D.
  • splucy
    splucy Posts: 353
    peanut butter, nuts, avacado, bread, potato and rice.

    I rarely eat any of those anymore unless I have room for it in my calorie goal lol
  • roolmc
    roolmc Posts: 47
    I'm more surprised by how few kcal some foods have and I'm trying to inch my diet towards those things (although sometimes cake/sweets get in there and ruin it).

    I always keep frozen berries in the freezer. I only let them defrost a little and they're like eating a cross between sweets and sorbet and they're only 30 to 50 kcal/100g.

    The other things I'm shocked with is curly kale, it's only 40 kcal/100g. It's also light so you get lots.
  • jst1986
    jst1986 Posts: 204 Member
    Not sure how many people in the UK are, but I walked into a Tesco and bought a chicken salad sandwich on brown bread. However, the calories stated 495. Odd, I thought. Considerably high for a chicken salad sandwich. I tried to find the right nutrition value on MFP but could only find one with 350 calories. WHY have they added 50% more calories?!

    More lard.

    In all seriousness premade sandwiches in shops are usually terrible, the exception is usually ranges like Boots Shapers.
  • Poods71
    Poods71 Posts: 502 Member
    Years ago when I was on the WW diet and I was drinking the volic flavoured water (figuring it was just water so would very little cals). I stuck to my 18 points for that day and was so proud of myself. I decided to check the points on my water, again I was proud of myself for drinking the whole bottle as I don't drink enough. When I checked it turned out the water was 18 points!!! My entire points for the day. I was gutted when I realised I had had double my points that day and I have never touched the stuff since.
  • SRH7
    SRH7 Posts: 2,037 Member
    Not sure how many people in the UK are, but I walked into a Tesco and bought a chicken salad sandwich on brown bread. However, the calories stated 495. Odd, I thought. Considerably high for a chicken salad sandwich. I tried to find the right nutrition value on MFP but could only find one with 350 calories. WHY have they added 50% more calories?!

    More lard.

    In all seriousness premade sandwiches in shops are usually terrible, the exception is usually ranges like Boots Shapers.

    Prepacked sandwiches are unbelievably scary when it comes to calories. I find they often have more than pies, especially those lovely chargrilled chicken ones from Greggs!

    I hike most weekends and have slashed my calories by making my own wraps. Discovery wholemeal ones are around 118 calories each and I can have two stuffed with leftovers from the night before (salad, curry and minty yogurt being a favourite) without killing my daily intake.
  • DelilaLightfoot
    DelilaLightfoot Posts: 53
    I think I'm shocked by just about everything that constituted my 'normal' diet before I started calorie counting :) but in particular mayonnaise - over 600 cals for 100ml!!! When I think of all the egg mayo or potato salads I've had in my time it's quite scary.

    And dried fruit - my husband started using sultanas instead of sugar on his porridge and he felt quite virtuous until we checked the calories and discovered that his 'healthy' breakfast is actually over 500 calories. I still can't get him to use less though.
  • squindles
    squindles Posts: 350 Member
    I think I'm shocked by just about everything that constituted my 'normal' diet before I started calorie counting :) but in particular mayonnaise - over 600 cals for 100ml!!! When I think of all the egg mayo or potato salads I've had in my time it's quite scary.

    And dried fruit - my husband started using sultanas instead of sugar on his porridge and he felt quite virtuous until we checked the calories and discovered that his 'healthy' breakfast is actually over 500 calories. I still can't get him to use less though.
    ^^^^^^THIS^^^^^^ Not the dried fruit bit but the rest, including "just about everything" :blushing:
  • allforthethrill
    allforthethrill Posts: 108 Member
    For me there were so many things.
    Cheese: I used to have it on everything, not anymore.
    Milk Chocolate: I knew it was bad, didn't know how many were in there though.
    Tinned Corn: I'm not sure if it's the same for fresh corn, but tinned seems to have heaps of calories.
    Apple: More than I thought.
    Pasta, flour, etc: Just.. WOW.
  • jst1986
    jst1986 Posts: 204 Member
    Years ago when I was on the WW diet and I was drinking the volic flavoured water (figuring it was just water so would very little cals). I stuck to my 18 points for that day and was so proud of myself. I decided to check the points on my water, again I was proud of myself for drinking the whole bottle as I don't drink enough. When I checked it turned out the water was 18 points!!! My entire points for the day. I was gutted when I realised I had had double my points that day and I have never touched the stuff since.

    Unfortunately some of them are loaded with sugar. They do some sugar free ones so maybe they might be OK?
  • nekoface
    nekoface Posts: 149 Member
    Mochas. I used to drink a ridiculous amount of mochas a day. I started off every workday with a tall mocha. Even without the whipped cream you could get a good meal for those calories.

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