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Thought I was choosing well. Might have blown it. Help!

Jormesher
Jormesher Posts: 46 Member
edited February 11 in Food and Nutrition
I ordered a chopped salad (entree size). Took off the blue cheese and only put 1/2 of the dressing on. Didn't eat the bread. How bad did I blow it?

Website says 400 calories. Quite frankly, it tasted to good to be that low.

Could the calorie count be right? (crossing fingers! LOL!)

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  • catnorbury
    catnorbury Posts: 35 Member
    I guess if it was mostly veg/salad leaves and you reduced the dressing that could be about right? Sometimes the cals you think are there, arent, and vice versa!
  • judykat7
    judykat7 Posts: 576 Member
    Unless I was getting the calorie count for the restaurant website, I would have to add up the individual ingredients. That is plenty of calories for lettuce, dressing, carrots, tomatoes but you start adding cheese, eggs, bacon, ham etc it changes a lot.
  • kamakazeekim
    kamakazeekim Posts: 1,183 Member
    naw, lettuce is VERY low cal and the other ingredients in a chopped salad are full of nutrients that you need...it's the dressing that kills you but if you only used a little then you're doing fine :) Not everything healthy has to taste bad!
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    Yeah, it's salad...if you halved the dressing then you cut out quite a few calories right there. And cheese is also calorie dense (and I would never leave it off).

    Please don't make the frequent mistake of thinking that everything that is good for you and nutritious and healthy has to taste like bland ****. I'm a foodie and eat very nutritiously...and everything I make tastes awesome. Also don't make the frequent mistake of thinking that calorie dense = bad...there are any number of nutrient dense foods that are also calorie dense...and also, you need dietary fat so don't cut out all of that either. People go low fat/no fat everything and jack with their hormones and end up with more issues than they started with.
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