cheese sandwich - how many calories??????

kernowboykuwait
kernowboykuwait Posts: 6 Member
in Food and Nutrition
I put butter on my two slices of hovis wholemeal bread. Then cut mature cheddar as the filling.
I'm NOT AMERICAN. I DON'T GRILL IT.

I've searched everywhere and can find no consensus on how many calories in this simplest of snacks.
has anyone got a definitive answer?
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  • weightliftingdiva
    weightliftingdiva Posts: 522 Member
    Look up the calories of the bread.
    Weigh the cheese. Look up how many calories is in that much cheese.
    Measure the butter and look up how many calories is in that much butter.
    Add together.

    There you go.

    You can make your own recipes for things you eat often in the recipe builder so you don't have to keep logging it individually.
  • JoelleAnn78
    JoelleAnn78 Posts: 1,492 Member
    ^^ This. Just log the items separately. It is really pretty simple. Butter, cheese, bread.
  • SmartAlec03211988
    SmartAlec03211988 Posts: 1,896 Member
    Weigh it...
  • melaniecheeks
    melaniecheeks Posts: 6,349 Member
    Slice of wholemeal bread - 100 each.
    Butter - proabably around 60-70 cals, depends how generous you were.
    The cheese? Calories will be high, so it really matters how much cheese you used. A ready sliced piece is around 120.

    So all in, about 400 calories, more if you used alot of cheese.
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  • dlcam61
    dlcam61 Posts: 228 Member
    hovis wholemeal bread: 57 cals/slice total 114
    Butter (depends on how much you used) 1Tablespoon: 100 cal
    Cheddar (depends on the type, read the label) 90 cals per ounce

    I found this easily in the database. Click on Food, then click on Database and you can search through all the foods that are logged into the database. When in doubt read the label, if it has one. Otherwise just compare it to something similar :flowerforyou:
  • AllOutof_Bubblegum
    AllOutof_Bubblegum Posts: 3,646 Member
    I'm NOT AMERICAN. I DON'T GRILL IT.

    What does being American, or grilling the sandwich, have to do with its calorie count?

    Grilling does not magically add more calories to an item of food. One method of cooking vs. another (or NOT cooking, in this case) does not make a difference in the number of calories it has. Neither does being American....:huh:
  • levitateme
    levitateme Posts: 999 Member
    Just butter and cheese on a cold sandwich? Sounds pretty gross. Put the bread on a scale, record the weight. Tare. Put the butter on the bread, record the weight. Tare. Put the cheese on the bread, record the weight. Log all of it. Repeat for everything else you eat.
  • xMrBunglex
    xMrBunglex Posts: 1,121 Member
    Strong first post.

    lawl
  • Gimpypal
    Gimpypal Posts: 16 Member
    176 cal in 2 slices Hovis Wholemeal bread (medium slice), 110 in one oz aged cheddar, 51 in 1/2 Tblsn butter. 337 total. :drinker:
  • ew_david
    ew_david Posts: 3,473 Member
    I DON'T GRILL IT.

    You are truly missing out.
  • lokepa
    lokepa Posts: 204 Member
    We love grilled cheese in the 'hood!
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  • NikiChicken
    NikiChicken Posts: 576 Member
    Look up the calories of the bread.
    Weigh the cheese. Look up how many calories is in that much cheese.
    Measure the butter and look up how many calories is in that much butter.
    Add together.

    There you go.

    You can make your own recipes for things you eat often in the recipe builder so you don't have to keep logging it individually.

    This.
  • superfox12082
    superfox12082 Posts: 512 Member
    Look up the calories of the bread.
    Weigh the cheese. Look up how many calories is in that much cheese.
    Measure the butter and look up how many calories is in that much butter.
    Add together.

    There you go.

    You can make your own recipes for things you eat often in the recipe builder so you don't have to keep logging it individually.

    This.

    Yep. This is how you have to do it.
  • da_bears1008
    da_bears1008 Posts: 354
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  • DBoone85
    DBoone85 Posts: 916 Member
    Look up the calories of the bread.
    Weigh the cheese. Look up how many calories is in that much cheese.
    Measure the butter and look up how many calories is in that much butter.
    Add together.

    There you go.

    You can make your own recipes for things you eat often in the recipe builder so you don't have to keep logging it individually.


    Maths are your friend....
  • OkamiLavande
    OkamiLavande Posts: 336 Member
    Well, I'm just going to go with what I think based on the same concept being for an American grilled cheese sandwich. (Sorry I love those so much! It's really comforting.) My grilled cheese sandwiches, which I make with mayonnaise instead of butter because it grills better, runs about 360-420 calories a sandwich depending on my slicing abilities of cheese, so, it's probably in that ballpark.
  • DBoone85
    DBoone85 Posts: 916 Member
    Well, I'm just going to go with what I think based on the same concept being for an American grilled cheese sandwich. (Sorry I love those so much! It's really comforting.) My grilled cheese sandwiches, which I make with mayonnaise instead of butter because it grills better, runs about 360-420 calories a sandwich depending on my slicing abilities of cheese, so, it's probably in that ballpark.

    Nothing better than grilled mayo.

    ~throws up~
  • OkamiLavande
    OkamiLavande Posts: 336 Member
    We love grilled cheese in the 'hood!
    ib2nChMTL5FuYU.gif

    Oh man I'm dying. The more I watch it the better it gets. Apparently you can put pizza on an iron to heat it up - college dorm style.
  • OkamiLavande
    OkamiLavande Posts: 336 Member
    Well, I'm just going to go with what I think based on the same concept being for an American grilled cheese sandwich. (Sorry I love those so much! It's really comforting.) My grilled cheese sandwiches, which I make with mayonnaise instead of butter because it grills better, runs about 360-420 calories a sandwich depending on my slicing abilities of cheese, so, it's probably in that ballpark.

    Nothing better than grilled mayo.

    ~throws up~

    The first time I had it, it weirded me out terribly. I was staying at my grandmother's in Redding and that's how she made grilled cheese sandwiches. I was forever changed by that sandwich. It was the best grilled cheese I have ever had hands down.
  • stealthq
    stealthq Posts: 4,298 Member
    I'm NOT AMERICAN. I DON'T GRILL IT.

    What does being American, or grilling the sandwich, have to do with its calorie count?

    Grilling does not magically add more calories to an item of food. One method of cooking vs. another (or NOT cooking, in this case) does not make a difference in the number of calories it has. Neither does being American....:huh:

    I'd think if anything grilling the sandwich would take a few calories away. At least, when I grill a cheese sandwich there's always some melted butter left behind in the pan. Not enough to be worth trying to count, but some.

    Oh, and grilling with mayo - yeah, it looks nice and is easier to spread, but you just can't have a grilled cheese without that nice butter taste! It's blasphemy! You must also use Muenster cheese with a thin slice of ham and a slice or two of ripe tomato. :tongue:
  • kernowboykuwait
    kernowboykuwait Posts: 6 Member
    Can't believe how many replies I've had. :-)
    I don't have any scales. Never have. So I have no idea how much delicious mature somerset cheddar cheese I put on it. Was hoping for an answer along the lines of "man sized cuts = ??? cals" " thin cuts/slices = ??? cals"
    Maybe even a link to some pics of typical cheese sarnies and their calorie counts.
    Similarly I have no idea regarding butter. I spread it thinly. Hate spread/margarine.
    My problem with grilling was that 99% of the returned google search results have grilled in their result. We rarely do that in UK. we have simple tastes.
    Hence picking out a straightforward, non-grilled cheese sandwich (without ham, chicken, turkey etc...) became a tedious task.
    Thanks for all your help.
    I'm still not really sure, so I'm going to use 500 calories as an overestimate.
    Cheers
  • NovemberJune
    NovemberJune Posts: 2,525 Member
    Could be 200. Could be 1000.
  • GiveMeCoffee
    GiveMeCoffee Posts: 3,556 Member
    Don't log it as a sandwich you log the bread, then the cheese, and the butter it's not difficult and not time consuming.

    But you should have grilled it and added bacon
  • VTRutz
    VTRutz Posts: 52 Member
    We love grilled cheese in the 'hood!
    ib2nChMTL5FuYU.gif

    WHY HAVE I NEVER THOUGHT OF THIS?!?!!!!
  • pandabear_
    pandabear_ Posts: 487 Member
    I'm NOT AMERICAN. I DON'T GRILL IT.

    What does being American, or grilling the sandwich, have to do with its calorie count?

    Grilling does not magically add more calories to an item of food. One method of cooking vs. another (or NOT cooking, in this case) does not make a difference in the number of calories it has. Neither does being American....:huh:

    I'm not American, but I do grill my cheese toasties... Mmmm :bigsmile:
  • reddz12
    reddz12 Posts: 350 Member
    pick up a food scale.. its the accurate way to get an answer to this..

    as far as man sized slices and thin slices... to each their own. good luck.
  • HarrietSabre
    HarrietSabre Posts: 186 Member
    Can't believe how many replies I've had. :-)
    I don't have any scales. Never have. So I have no idea how much delicious mature somerset cheddar cheese I put on it. Was hoping for an answer along the lines of "man sized cuts = ??? cals" " thin cuts/slices = ??? cals"
    Maybe even a link to some pics of typical cheese sarnies and their calorie counts.
    Similarly I have no idea regarding butter. I spread it thinly. Hate spread/margarine.
    My problem with grilling was that 99% of the returned google search results have grilled in their result. We rarely do that in UK. we have simple tastes.
    Hence picking out a straightforward, non-grilled cheese sandwich (without ham, chicken, turkey etc...) became a tedious task.
    Thanks for all your help.
    I'm still not really sure, so I'm going to use 500 calories as an overestimate.
    Cheers

    Speak for yourself...I don't eat cold cheese sandwiches much and I'm English :P
  • crystals5984
    crystals5984 Posts: 3 Member
    Love the grilling with the iron! That's the way to do it!
  • SLLeask
    SLLeask Posts: 489 Member
    My problem with grilling was that 99% of the returned google search results have grilled in their result. We rarely do that in UK. we have simple tastes.

    I'm from the UK and I grill my cheese sandwiches!! Cheese toasties are pretty common in the UK as far as I'm aware...!

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