What food's calories have you been shocked by?
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Starbucks pumpkin bread. 390 calories per slice. That's a freaking meal in one little piece of bread.0
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Also pasta. Seems fine until you realize how many servings you actually eat0
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Bacon. I thought it had more calories. Glad that i can still sneak it in to the meal plan periodically!1
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Pasta, man I used to eat my chili on top of my pasta,make all kinds of pasta with like 5 cheese in them, I look at it now and the amount of it I get to actually eat to fit into my calorie schedule is kinda alarming cuz I love the stuff.0
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Spices 5 or 6 calories per teaspoon. I love cooking with spices as opposed to salt.0
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I find potatoes to be a lot higher than I expected and I mean a naked potato. A small potato is like 150 calories and that is before you add anything to it.
Go to a restaurant and get a big loaded potato and you are probably looking at 750+ calories for the potato. Same for potato skins....your appetizer.
Even worse - Jason's Deli Plain Jane Potato (Natural buttery blend, cheddar, sour cream, bacon, green onions.) has 2320 calories. the lighter version has 1130 calories!!!!1 -
Straight up Tanqueray martini. I thought the clear alcohols were much lower in calories!0
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I have a ratio one: "lean" brisket has more fat than protein?!?!?!0
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Red's Gluten Free Hot Cereal0
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Costco poutine. Hubby and I used to split a hotdog and poutine for dinner fairly often, as it was so cheap. But that thing (nevermind the loaded hotdog) is over 1200 calories!
I never expected french fries smothered in cheese and gravy to be healthy, but wow. No wonder I felt like such a slug afterwards.0 -
White Castle's chicken rings and fries (together about 1,130 cal). I don't go there much, but I went and was surprised by how much calories it is for that meal compared to a Culver's kids meal, chicken strips and fries (together about 495 cal). I definitely know which place to eat at instead if there is a next time.0
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Nutella.... And I would eat it by the spoonfull0
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Granola. High in calories AND sugar0
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Banana bread!0
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Some fruit has shocked me! I tried weight watchers unsuccessfully and they are 0 points there.
This is exactly why I didn't join WW and came here instead! Thank the Lord haha0 -
Costco poutine. Hubby and I used to split a hotdog and poutine for dinner fairly often, as it was so cheap. But that thing (nevermind the loaded hotdog) is over 1200 calories!
I never expected french fries smothered in cheese and gravy to be healthy, but wow. No wonder I felt like such a slug afterwards.
Poutine is something I have to talk myself out of eating quite a bit. It's terribly tragic haha... especially if I go to Quebec! It must be a crime not to eat poutine there. Oh well! Costco was an eye-opener for me too! One of those hotdogs (not toppings) is 550 calories!!! The only part of Costco I used to look forward to was when we'd get lunch... Now I hate EVERY minute of the trip haha0 -
Everything at Chili's. I used to eat there ALL THE TIME. Nothing good, seriously.0
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A lot of things. Yesterday, I was shocked that by the time I logged everything in that I used to make a sandwich came up so high! I would have been better off eating pizza. Bread, sandwich meat, and cheese are very bad ideas. Got to get back on this ball!0
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Straight up Tanqueray martini. I thought the clear alcohols were much lower in calories!
All grain alcohols - bourbon, vodka, gin, tequila - that aren't flavored are about 70 cals per ounce. A pour in a bar is about 1.5 to 2 ounces depending on the place and whether the bartender likes you.
Liquers are off course more caloric, as are pretty colored drinks with more caloric things added to them, like juice or mixers.0 -
Not calories but the trace amounts of trans fat that cheese contains.
Also when you heat oil - any oil - it creates trans fats.0
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