How many calories would you guess is in this meal? (bento box)

GroovyLord
GroovyLord Posts: 12 Member
edited November 30 in Health and Weight Loss
I get this regularly, how many calories would you guess this is? The pic is from Yelp, it looks like there's a bit less rice when I get it, but still a lot of white rice.

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Some chopped chicken strips with some breading, some sushi, scallops, and a pile of white sticky rice.

I'm pretty bad at guessing how many calories are in restaurant foods. At least this one doesn't seem to have lots of butter or grease etc. Thanks

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  • hko718
    hko718 Posts: 85 Member
    Hard to say 600+
  • arditarose
    arditarose Posts: 15,573 Member
    About 900-1000 I'd say. That is a lot of rice. A couple cups at least.
  • GroovyLord
    GroovyLord Posts: 12 Member
    Thanks, that sounds about right. Just tried adding all the individual items with guestimated portions, came out to 1079.
  • elphie754
    elphie754 Posts: 7,574 Member
    Almost impossible to tell from a picture. I'd say at least 1000, possibly more of you added sauce.
  • GroovyLord
    GroovyLord Posts: 12 Member
    It's definitely an art guessing.
  • veggiecanner
    veggiecanner Posts: 137 Member
    anything breaded and fried is going to be high.
  • 7elizamae
    7elizamae Posts: 758 Member
    1200? Thats a lot of rice and a lot of breading.
  • Maxematics
    Maxematics Posts: 2,287 Member
    Definitely 1000+ in my opinion. Everything there is high calorie.
  • ncboiler89
    ncboiler89 Posts: 2,408 Member
    edited March 2016
    hko718 wrote: »
    Hard to say 600+

    I was going to say 600

    Showing my work;

    1 cup rice = 206

    3'ish oz scallops = 100

    A few chicken strips = 200

    Random sushi (but not a large amount) = 100
  • dragon_girl26
    dragon_girl26 Posts: 2,187 Member
    edited March 2016
    elphie754 wrote: »
    Almost impossible to tell from a picture. I'd say at least 1000, possibly more of you added sauce.

    This would be my guess, too. That's a pretty decent sized portion of fried chicken strips, which I'd guess to be about 300-400 calories alone, plus if you add about 2 cups of rice, sushi, and scallops...
  • Maxematics
    Maxematics Posts: 2,287 Member
    edited March 2016
    600 seems too low. Giving each piece of the roll and fried shumai a generously low calorie count of 60 each, that's already 420 calories. That mound of rice is at least 200 calories. Then you have breaded and fried chicken, pieces of fish, and the sauce to consider.
  • ncboiler89
    ncboiler89 Posts: 2,408 Member
    synacious wrote: »
    600 seems too low. Giving each piece of the roll and fried gyoza a generously low calorie count of 60 each, that's already 420 calories. That mound of rice is at least 200 calories. Then you have breaded and fried chicken, pieces of fish, and the sauce to consider.

    Ya. I missed the sauce.
  • arditarose
    arditarose Posts: 15,573 Member
    synacious wrote: »
    600 seems too low. Giving each piece of the roll and fried gyoza a generously low calorie count of 60 each, that's already 420 calories. That mound of rice is at least 200 calories. Then you have breaded and fried chicken, pieces of fish, and the sauce to consider.

    Agreed. That is definitely a 400 calorie plus serving of rice right there.
  • ncboiler89
    ncboiler89 Posts: 2,408 Member
    arditarose wrote: »
    synacious wrote: »
    600 seems too low. Giving each piece of the roll and fried gyoza a generously low calorie count of 60 each, that's already 420 calories. That mound of rice is at least 200 calories. Then you have breaded and fried chicken, pieces of fish, and the sauce to consider.

    Agreed. That is definitely a 400 calorie plus serving of rice right there.

    You think that's 2 cups of rice? My picture sizing skills clearly need to be re-calibrated
  • Maxematics
    Maxematics Posts: 2,287 Member
    I accidentally wrote gyoza but I meant shumai for the bottom left food. Those are not scallops unless this is a really out there Asian fusion restaurant.
  • Afura
    Afura Posts: 2,054 Member
    ncboiler89 wrote: »
    arditarose wrote: »
    synacious wrote: »
    600 seems too low. Giving each piece of the roll and fried gyoza a generously low calorie count of 60 each, that's already 420 calories. That mound of rice is at least 200 calories. Then you have breaded and fried chicken, pieces of fish, and the sauce to consider.

    Agreed. That is definitely a 400 calorie plus serving of rice right there.

    You think that's 2 cups of rice? My picture sizing skills clearly need to be re-calibrated

    I'd say about a cup and a half at least. I think that plate is deceptively smaller than it looks though, if you compare what the sushi looks like size wise. I know my sushi place usually gives about 2 cups rice in a bowl.
  • arditarose
    arditarose Posts: 15,573 Member
    I guess maybe less than two cups of rice now that I look at the size of the plate. I just ate a crap ton of rice so I'm a little off haha
  • Ws2016
    Ws2016 Posts: 432 Member
    With all that rice, I'm thinking 750.
  • GroovyLord
    GroovyLord Posts: 12 Member
    edited March 2016
    synacious wrote: »
    I accidentally wrote gyoza but I meant shumai for the bottom left food. Those are not scallops unless this is a really out there Asian fusion restaurant.

    They are scallops, same as any seafood place, not shumai. But I can see how they might look like that. You're only seeing the outside (breading), I ate what was inside. =P

    And there's less rice than that pic when I get it, but thanks for all the estimates, always a fun art
  • cthakkar1985
    cthakkar1985 Posts: 137 Member
    Very hard to say - my guess is anywhere from 900 to 1200 calories. When I'm unsure, I always err on the side of caution and choose the high estimate. I'd log this as 1200 calories.
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