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help calculating calories

Phoebe1970
Phoebe1970 Posts: 10 Member
edited November 2024 in Food and Nutrition
yesterday was my birthday, I calculated each slice at 220 calories.Ithis morning I had a very small slice, it is a rectangle cake, white cake with white icing, and I've literally only shaved off of a small edge of it may be four inches long and one quarter of an inch thick, how many cals do you guys think that is

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  • Ready2Rock206
    Ready2Rock206 Posts: 9,487 Member
    Well Birthday calories don't actually count you know. What was the size of the slice you calculated? Or how did you calculate "a slice"? I'd say somewhere between 100 and 220 calories for your piece of cake.
  • Phoebe1970
    Phoebe1970 Posts: 10 Member
    220 is a whole piece according to the container
  • wkwebby
    wkwebby Posts: 807 Member
    Measure the whole piece on a scale and then take the proportion for the smaller serving. For example 10 ounces for the whole 220 calorie cake, with the amount shaved off, it is now 5 ounces, then I'd take 110 as the approximate calories.
  • Phoebe1970
    Phoebe1970 Posts: 10 Member
    Good idea! :-) thanks! :-)
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