What foods surprised you the most, calorie-wise?
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25lbsorbust
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Both low and high, what foods were you not expecting to be what they were?
My #1 I found out today.. 10 fritos scoops is 160 calories! What? Excuse me?!
Another big one was corn.. retrospectively the two are related, but 600+ calories per cup is absurd.
My #1 I found out today.. 10 fritos scoops is 160 calories! What? Excuse me?!
Another big one was corn.. retrospectively the two are related, but 600+ calories per cup is absurd.
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Sadly , peanut butter. Especially when I went by grams rather than my normal gigantic tablespoon servings.22
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definitely Frito's (I go by grams, though.. even more sad) but I find a few added to chili or whatever will add the flavor and I don't need a ton.
Peanut butter was a sad day.
Fish was a nice surprise. Pretty decent calorie range there
oh. and my fave spring mix. If I wanted to, I could eat a mixing bowl full and barely hit 100 cals.5 -
Corn has 600 calories per cup??? I see that listed but I don't believe it. I can eat a TON of corn. And based on my box of Green Giant Frozen Corn, it has just over 100 per cup.
For me the realization that my 'healthy' yogurt had nearly 300 calories was a real eye opener. I immediately stopped eating it and saved 1200 calories per week.8 -
Magic food. Sweet potato, the ones that are yellow on the inside. Low calorie tons of vitamin A very filling4
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Purple sweet potatoes... I used to just log them as regular sweet potatoes, and they are literally twice as much... I love them, but I just cant justify spending the calories on them. Also salmon makes me sad at how high it is in calories. Not really surprised at any processed high fat, high sugar foods... I always knew they'd be very high in calories. Strawberries are awesome tho, super high volume food!1
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Being Halloween searching the calorie content of those peanut butter pumpkins was sheer pain lol.10
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It wasn't really a surprise based on the overall size of the sandwich, but I had a peanut butter and jam sandwich at the Houston airport last week and laughed when I saw the label say 1000+ calories (it was something like 1080). Mind was blown at the sheer amount of peanut butter on the thing.6
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Fage 2% Greek yogurt, plain. Only 150 calories for 7 oz, and 20 g of protein. I add 60 calories of honey with cinnamon, and that's a lot of protein for 210. It really helps fill me up.2
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Pop Tarts. First look....200 calories....not bad. Closer look....serving size, one pastry....awww mannnn....why two per package if one is a serving.
On the positive side, Miracle Whip is only 40 calories per one tablespoon serving. Even more surprising was a weighed tablespoon turned out to be a tad more than I would normally put on a sandwich.15 -
sainsbury's milk chocolate cookies. they're my girlfriend's favourites so she always brings them over, just bigger than my palm, and only 210 calories ! i was worried they'd be worse than that and i'd have to sit there and watch her eat them every saturday but i can indulge on one too with that.0
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The deli sandwich pinwheels I used to get at the grocery store. 1,000 calories for a dozen pinwheels.0
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Peanut butter. Guacamole. Sad days.
Laughing Cow cheese. Spinach and mushrooms. Happly days.4 -
Cookies,pizza......beans..regular salad dressings,the list goes on.0
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Good news! Corn is totally not 600 calories per cup. You've found a bad entry.
Muffins blow my mind. They're like the TARDIS of calories.
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Most condiments/dressings are really calorie heavy and that surprised me-when I began my weight loss phase I figured out I was eating around 400 calories just in honey mustard sauce every time we went to Arbys5
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25lbsorbust wrote: »Another big one was corn.. retrospectively the two are related, but 600+ calories per cup is absurd.
What kind of corn are you eating?
http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/vegetables-and-vegetable-products/2850/2
A cup comes in at about 130-ish calories.
Pears surprised me ... I mistook them for being light and low cal. Turns out they are denser and higher cal than I thought.
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sparklyglitterbomb wrote: »definitely Frito's (I go by grams, though.. even more sad) but I find a few added to chili or whatever will add the flavor and I don't need a ton.
Peanut butter was a sad day.
Fish was a nice surprise. Pretty decent calorie range there
oh. and my fave spring mix. If I wanted to, I could eat a mixing bowl full and barely hit 100 cals.
I love Fritos and use them as a topping like you do vs eating a serving by itself. My favorite way is with Progresso's light chicken enchilada soup (a whole can is under 200 calories), with hot sauce drizzled in and then topped with a half serving of fritos. I eat this for lunch several times a week and it's sooo good!3 -
I'm surprised the calories in something pretty regularly honestly. This morning, my surprise is the banana banana bread from allrecipe. 229 calories in one little slice. Sigh.3
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Very sad when I found out the calories in the bread I was buying was about double the calories in the bread I buy now, that bread was so delicious
I was pleasantly surprised about the calories in wine, such a beautiful thing!6 -
Pop tarts.. cause you only 1 out of the pack as the serving size.. Why don't they individually wrap the pop tarts?5
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