HOLY TOLEDO!!! What's the biggest calorie shock you've had

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  • mosneakers
    mosneakers Posts: 343 Member
    Salads in general!!!! I thought they were supposed to be heathy! Yeah - if it's just lettuce and veggies!
  • SabrinaJL
    SabrinaJL Posts: 1,579 Member
    My biggest shock was apple bees oriental chicken salad with dressing- 1310 calories and since its 2 for $20 meal we would split buffalo chicken-1160 calories.. SHOCKER!!!!

    Also chili's crispy chicken tacos -1630 and I would ask for more sauce on the side.. that is just horrible!!!

    ;

    My sister works at Applebee's and said that most people assume that because they're eating a salad, that means it's healthy. She said on the oriental chicken salad, the dressing doubles the calories and a lot of people actually ask for EXTRA dressing.
  • MyViolet
    MyViolet Posts: 73 Member
    Olive Garden their soup, salad and breadsticks! Can't remember how many, but I do not darken that doorway anymore! Eating out is so hard. I try and stick to salads with grilled meat and no dressing. I also try and avoid the bread products...

    Oh and Applebee's Maple blondie was around 900 for the whole thing. I thought I was doing good by only eating half! Lesson learned!
  • charity94
    charity94 Posts: 5 Member
    One of mine was popcorn, but not because it was high in calories. I kept reading the label thinking, "this can't be right! I can eat the whole bag for only 60 calories?!" So now if I have a craving for chips or just want to munch during a movie I have 94% fat free popcorn.
  • UpEarly
    UpEarly Posts: 2,555 Member
    My mom's homemade New York style cheesecake was a real slap in the pants yesterday!

    I did pretty well limiting portions and making good choices during Easter brunch, so I decided to allow myself a sliver of my mom's fabulous homemade cheesecake. I still came in under my calorie goal, but that sliver of cheesecake was close to 600 calories.

    I had no idea! But, lo and behold, when I put all the ingredients in the MFP recipe creator, the truth came out. It's a very good thing she only makes that cheesecake once or twice a year!
  • Mairgheal
    Mairgheal Posts: 385 Member
    The calories of a 200gr plain chocolate easter bunny is 1088 calories! Seriously!

    And I could EASILY eat the whole thing.
    But I'm not.
  • cupotee
    cupotee Posts: 181 Member
    - 500 cals for 1 serving of Olive garden salad + 1 breadstick. Their new soffatelli has 250% of the DV for sat fat!
    - Johnny Rocket shakes set you back 1000+ calories
  • DeBlue
    DeBlue Posts: 254 Member
    Outback steakhouse - cheese fries with ranch dressing. I think if you ate the whole order it would be around 3,000 - yike!
  • Cristy_AZ
    Cristy_AZ Posts: 986
    Agree you must eat!!

    My shocker: Sonic Java Chiller 560 calories (WITHOUT the whip cream) HOLY MOLY!!

    Haven't had one in over 6 months!
  • TourThePast
    TourThePast Posts: 1,753 Member
    My (ex) husband does a delicious cauliflower cheese - he makes adds potato, makes the sauce with a butter roux, and loads it with cheese.

    After he tried to tell me it was healthy because it was "vegetables", I weighed the ingredients as he made it - even I was shocked to find that it came out at 1600 calories a portion!
  • Echo17121
    Echo17121 Posts: 111 Member
    My friend works at TGIFridays and recently told me that with the new law going into effect where restaurants have to put their calories on the menu, Fridays has to redo their WHOLE menu. The reason behind this being they have absolutely nothing under 1,000 calories---even their "healthy choice foods!! She said the majority of the things are over 2,000 and they know that people won't order so they have to redo and find lower calorie foods.

    That was a big shocker to me as I used to work there and would eat there a lot. Gained some weight but blamed it on college and it probably wasn't all college at all lol.
  • Suzannejl
    Suzannejl Posts: 212
    Skyline 3 way chili. 1070 calories for one serving and I use to eat it several times a week.

    Yup, ate homemade chili, full of beans, meat, homecanned tomatoes and cheese for dinner that night.

    I LOVE Syline, I have even mail ordered the cans of sauce, I will have to watch that one! I had know idea! Thanks for the heads up!
  • cupajoe
    cupajoe Posts: 155
    Steak and shake regular butter pecan milk shake 800 calories!!!!!!!

    This is what I was thinking. My husband and I took the kids to Dairy Queen one night and I got a small carmel malt thinking it wasn't as bad as a Blizzard...Wrong! It was like 900 calories and one of the highest calorie items on the menu!
  • Suzannejl
    Suzannejl Posts: 212
    . Mexican rice is actually deep fried before it's steamed.

    WOW I had no idea! Thanx for the heads up!
  • ladyviola
    ladyviola Posts: 21 Member
    I was shocked to learn that there's like 226 calories in ONE dinner roll at Texas Roadhouse. My husband and I used to go there several times a month and I would eat a good 4 or 5 rolls before our dinner even came out. Plus I had butter on the rolls.
  • Sillybunni
    Sillybunni Posts: 61 Member
    My biggest shock was the Buffalo Kickin Sandwich at O'Charley's = 1,180!!!! That wasn't even counting the sweet potato fries.
  • suzooz
    suzooz Posts: 720 Member
    My biggest shocker was a SMALL scoop of Culver's flavor of the day -- 700 calories! Bring on the Fudgesicles instead (70 calories!)

    I will have to admit that I am planning on having Baskin Robbin's June flavor of the month when it comes out. I think I will mow the lawn that day to earn it (over 1000 calories burned this weekend! )
  • luvslibby
    luvslibby Posts: 24
    That would have to be a tie between a medium-sized Dairy Queen blizzard and a pasta dish from a local Italian restaurant. It was enough to make a grown woman cry....
  • amzahn
    amzahn Posts: 5
    Those little Hostess Zingers are about 170 each. Now, mind you I discovered that after I ate too many of them. LOL
    :sad: :ohwell:
  • Mairgheal
    Mairgheal Posts: 385 Member
    My friend works at TGIFridays and recently told me that with the new law going into effect where restaurants have to put their calories on the menu, Fridays has to redo their WHOLE menu. The reason behind this being they have absolutely nothing under 1,000 calories---even their "healthy choice foods!! She said the majority of the things are over 2,000 and they know that people won't order so they have to redo and find lower calorie foods.

    I think this is excellent, it forces restaurants to think about what they're selling too! What country is this?

    No such law here in Ireland and I can't see it happening soon either, even though there was a small campaign going on about this a few months back. Going out for dinner really is a lucky dip it seems, I try to guess what's healthy-ish, but that's all I can do (nothing online either)
  • CARNAT22
    CARNAT22 Posts: 764 Member
    I am constantly shocked by the amount of calories in things that I always considered to be pretty "healthy"

    Carbs are the worst offenders - pasta, rice and jacket potatoes were staples of my old diet. I still have pasta and rice but I weight my portions and I now have new potatoes in my potatoe dishes as they are much lower in calories.

    I don't eat much fast food and didn't even before signing up here but my portion size of things that I thought were healthy were too big.

    I also like wine and that is very calorific :-(
  • kateminx
    kateminx Posts: 62 Member
    Night out with the girls at Pizza Hut = 1 pizza, garlic bread, wedges, 2 x lattes, 1 x orange squash, 1 mini (yes mini) cheesecake ... over 3000 cal!!!!
    Was all worth it too!! :)
  • chatterbox3110
    chatterbox3110 Posts: 630 Member
    I've just been browsing through the replies on this thread, and while I don't recognise a lot of the brands as I'm in the UK, it's really been an eyeopener on where the hidden calories are LOL

    My biggest shocker wasn't calories, it was sodium! I buy my local supermarket (Sainsburys) brand of crabsticks, and snack on them, as they are very low in calories. It wasn't until I recorded them into my diary that I discovered the sodium level was about 100 times my daily allowance! Yikes! No wonder I retain fluid!

    Will be good when the restaurant menus list calorie counts, saves me having to look online to try and find something suitable when I'm going out to eat, which kind of takes the pleasure out of choosing from a menu when you get there.

    Oh, and I must remember to weigh my food ...... had another shock when I weighed what I thought equated to 40g of cereal....... eeerm, noooooo, try double!
  • SabrinaJL
    SabrinaJL Posts: 1,579 Member
    I agree about the sodium being the biggest shocker. Especially for me, because I have high blood pressure. I can't believe how much sodium I was eating. And cals are listed on menus here, but I still use my phone to check the nutritional info online. Like yesterday I was out with a friend at Applebees and was thinking of getting the Bourbon Street chicken and shrimp. It was about 760 cals, which wasn't terrible, but when I looked it up, the sodium was over 2500 mgs. A whole days worth in one dish. I chose the asiago peppercorn steak instead (370 cals, 1500 mg sodium).
  • rndownham
    rndownham Posts: 1 Member
    My biggest shock was not the amount of calories but the amount of sodium in The Green Turtle's pretzel sticks appetizers. You get four of them and a small cup of cheese queso for 7,775 mg of sodium. Never again!
  • kris_wilder
    kris_wilder Posts: 7
    I just joined not long ago, but I have a big calorie shock & a question to go along with it...

    Eggplant Parm... if you go with just those words in the search and select generic, 2 cups it's over 2000 cals!

    I decided, I am going to put everything in that I plan on eating out of that dish seperately and see what it comes to... 494 cals...

    I selected 8oz of fried eggplant, 1 cup of angel hair pasta cooked, 1/8 c moz cheez, and 1/2 c sauce, and a diet soda.

    How in the world could adding those items seperately make such a difference? Is there something in eggplant parm that I don't know about?!?!?! lol

    I haven't counted calories since I was in High School, so I can't help but to wonder if I am doing something wrong.

    Thanks!
  • katyrose221
    katyrose221 Posts: 69 Member
    I love pizza. Every time I eat it now, and enter it into the database, I cringe. I have gone from 4 (yes four) slices of typical pizza to 2, in most cases.

    The other big shocker was the sugar in milk! Wowzers!
  • Echo17121
    Echo17121 Posts: 111 Member
    My friend works at TGIFridays and recently told me that with the new law going into effect where restaurants have to put their calories on the menu, Fridays has to redo their WHOLE menu. The reason behind this being they have absolutely nothing under 1,000 calories---even their "healthy choice foods!! She said the majority of the things are over 2,000 and they know that people won't order so they have to redo and find lower calorie foods.

    I think this is excellent, it forces restaurants to think about what they're selling too! What country is this?

    No such law here in Ireland and I can't see it happening soon either, even though there was a small campaign going on about this a few months back. Going out for dinner really is a lucky dip it seems, I try to guess what's healthy-ish, but that's all I can do (nothing online either)

    I agree I think it is awesome. I have come across people who think it is unfair for the government to tell them what they can and can't eat by doing this, but I find those people tend to be unhealthy people already. This is in the US and specifically Pennsylvania. I don't know if it is nationwide but I am happy to know that I will be able to see what I am eating and make good choices about it!
  • learnbygoing
    learnbygoing Posts: 103 Member
    My favorite ice cream is from Coldstone Creamery. I always used to get the small size ("like it" size) of the Mint Mint Chocolate Chocolate Chip ice cream. I recently looked it up....it's 900+ calories :(
  • _CHRISTIE_
    _CHRISTIE_ Posts: 237 Member
    I went to McAlisters Deli yesterday and got 1/2 club on wheat w/ FF honey mustard... and it was 515 Calories!!!!!! I think I was doing good and man oh man!!! that's insane! ohh well.... today is a new day.... and I'm almost over my intake today as well...ughhh I have got to do better this week!
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