Misleading food! What did you underestimate?

I ordered a Wedge Salad from TGIF. IT WAS 620 CALORIES!! HOW IS A SALAD WITH NO DRESSING 620 CALORIES!

Dairy Queen's ice cream cakes... smh... so disappointed in myself after having a small slice and discovering I was eating over 700 calories of something I assumed would be no more than 500 at most! I should have known better, at least I do now!

Granola, only a 1/4 cup serving...wtf?

THIS - Granola is crazy small serving!

Bean and Cheese Burrito from Alberto's. I figured, harmless right? WRONG! I almost fainted when I saw it was 1020 calories and 2250 of soduim! :noway:

WHAT???? :noway: oh man!!! :sad:

I used to live a block away from one in SoCal, coudn't get enough of those things!

My friends and I were out all night driving home, and decided to stop at Ihop. Not the healthiest choice :P. phone was dead so no mfp . So I chose a GARDEN OMLETTE. Literally, tomatoes, peppers, onions mushrooms and cheddar...so i got home and checked....how is that 920 calories?! Crazy. I thought maybe 500 calories and that was pushing it. What are some foods you underestimated?

I haven't read the entire thread, so I don't know if this has been answered yet. But IHOP puts pancake batter in all of their regular omelettes. The only ones that don't have the pancake batter in them are the ones from the light and fit menu (or whatever it's called).

Not sure if I over or underestimate here, but rice is hard for me to log since the label is typically based on dry rice... who eats dry rice? LOL. Any suggestions on how to calculate? I guess it depends on how much water and how long the rice is cooked. :grumble: I'm on rice eating strike.

It's also hard for me to log Indian food... there are so many spices and a lack of nutrition info available online.

Ummm....adding water and heat to rice doesn't change the calorie content of the rice. So, you measure it dry, then cook it. If you measure 1/4 cup dry and it comes out as 1/2 cooked...then you ate and log 1/4 cup dry. Same with dry beans.

Ummm... people don't usually cook just 1/4 cup of dry rice, so not sure this is too helpful? However most of the rice measurements I use here on MFP are cooked volume so I think it should be good enough. Nothing measured here or anywhere else is going to be 100% accurate anyway.

Ummm...You do realize the 1/4 measurement was just an example, right? The same holds true if you cook 1 cup or a whole box...it is still going to equal the same amount of calories cooked. And as far as something being 100% accurate, I would rather trust my known measurement than that of the MFP database whenever I can. I know that I'm using a food scale and weighing 1/4 cup (1/4 cup is used here for example purposes only) that it's correct in grams and not eyeballing the measuring cup.

That's just it.. when rice is made in my household it's made in abundance so it can go around and last for a few days, so I have to measure after it's cooked and it's not the same dry and cooked (not my portion anyway). The longer you cook rice the more water it absorbs. More water means fluffier, which means you get less rice into 1/4 a cup than what you would get dry. How could it possibly be the same, unless you cook the whole box and eat the whole box?

I guess the only way to really know is to based it off of the dry calories and divide out the cooked rice into servings and do the math... but that takes too much time so I'll stick with MFP estimates!

Mexican restaurant tortilla chips with salsa for me. The salsa usually isn't too bad calorie-wise but the chips are usually like 150-170 per 15 chips. In the past I could down the whole basket of chips, and work on a second basket before the meal even came. That's like 600 plus calories NOT INCLUDING the actual meal.

I think its a cruel joke that most excellent salsas are like 5 calories per tablespoon, but tortilla chips are ridiculously high in calories

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Salsa and chips are my crack that is making my crack bigger. Haha!

peanut butter, those tablespoons add up quick

Breakfast cereal was a big eye opener for me back when i first started measuring food.

Granola, only a 1/4 cup serving...wtf?

Bananas! They're fruit, wtf! At 120 calories per, it makes me feel guilty eating a couple.

nutella...holy **** I could of had a candy bar for that many calories

So much this^ here

Peanut butter and Nutella have broken my heart.
Bananas have betrayed me
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Granola and cereal have lied to me

Wetherspoons food in general. I don't know what the hell they do to it to make them all so high in calories.

Example: Gourmet hot dog without onion rings and chips: 976 cals. BBQ ribs without coleslaw, chips or onion rings: 1347 cals.

I mean, I know these options aren't screaming "Pick me! I'm low cal and healthy!" but I never expected them to be *so* bad. If you add chips and onion rings then you're talking for many women, a day's worth of calories in one meal!

At least Wetherspoons' menus have the calories alongside each meal. Bloody agree with you how high they are though!

Aerosol creams which say something like 50 calories for 12mls, but it doesnt come out like a liquid it comes out like a blob the size of your fist it just looks high calories, how can I measure something which shoots out like a mousse

seriously... what is 2 tbls of RediWhip whipped cream at 50 cals. is that 2 tbls before or after you filled it full of air??? :frown: