Fish and Chips Takeaway

Not sure how much - I would say my local chippies are all very greasy and it's not hard to imagine there being upwards of 1000/1500 cals at least for a fish supper...I would guess more. If I'm not sure of calories I always overestimate, and pack in extra exercise to try and make up for any high calorie meal

this may not be the correct way but its the way i do it :ohwell:

i look for the one that has the most confirmations on the nutrition info - hope it helps :flowerforyou:

Hi, my first week on here and in answer to your query, I made my own, which was healthier and lighter: average chip shop fish and chips supper is around 880 cals for a small portion; my dinner cost just 395.

Lunch became dinner this afternoon as I started the day late and breakfast became brunch, so I need to finish eating later this even with something lighter.... so I swapped Dinner for Lunch. I bought two cod steaks from Tesco's last week with a minted pea sauce sachet and thought; what can I do to the fillets that wont cost me loads of calories by having a favourite dish of deep fried fish n chips? So, I recalled somewhere in the dim distant past my grandmother coating white fish for my Italian grandfather, with dried polenta, instead of using breadcrumbs covering...(polenta is a gluten free grain), which is cornmeal or maize and looks like gritty yellow flour. I had some in the cupboard screaming to be used so I dished out around 1 - 2 ozs on a large plate, lightly seasoned it with salt and black pepper and using a little of my soya milk wet the cod fillets (instead of using beaten egg) then dipped each one into the dried seasoned polenta (if you wanted to you could spice up the dried polenta first a little with smoked paprika, or any of the Italian spices of your choice like dried thyme , basil or oregano when seasoning the mix;) then well-coated I froze one fillet for later in the week, the other I fried in a little rapeseed oil (about a tablespoon in a non stick frying pan) turning it once only when the underside was crisp and golden, took about 15 mins in all. Okay, this bumped up the calories being fried, so the other fillet, which I had today, I defrosted and then baked in the oven on a non stick baking sheet with 100g of cold, boiled Jersey Royal potatoes sliced thickly a finely chopped spring onion (scallion) and drizzled a desert-spoon of rapeseed oil over them and the fish fillet. Cook in a moderately hot oven, gas 5 or around the 180-190 Celsius for around 25-30 mins until crisp and golden. I had petite-pois peas with it and the minted pea sauce that came with the fillets warmed and poured over the fillet and it was absolutely gorgeous and that all came in at 395 cals the lot.

My local chip shop portions could seriously feed the 5000 anyway I find it even harder to work out the calories from it. One fish and chips feeds out family of 4 with left over (and they wonder why we have an obesity problem up north...) so I have a really tiny percentage of that with the batter off the fish and still just put it as a "take one for the team" days.

google/mfp gave me 1000 calories for a portion of chip shop chips alone.
add the fish ,closer to 2000.
just had asda meal of haddock + chips, tiny portion and still 481 cals for 12 chips and a breaded haddock portion. and thats oven cooked not dripping in grease!