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Foods with shocking high cals
becky19_80
Posts: 9 Member
Ive been scanning everything and cereals and cheese were way higher in calories then i thought.
What foods have you been shocked by?
What foods have you been shocked by?
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i'm not shocked by it, but peanut butter calories make me a little sad :laugh:50
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peanut butter by a country mile8
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Tortillas31
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Coffee creamer (especially for the amount I used to use!).16
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Ribs.
Why are ribs so much higher in calories than regular pork?11 -
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Not shocked, because most things seem pretty predictable based on ingredients, but nuts and nutbutter, any nut-based granolas (there's this paleo granola I love -- I'm not paleo, but it's tasty -- and I could eat 1000 calories of it easy). Also naan, sigh.8
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Bbq and pasta sauce. Also the sodium count is ridiculous.8
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Chia seeds12
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Ketchup. One little packet is 20 calories.5
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One banana. 100 calories. When my daily allowance is 1200, that is painful...33
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One banana. 100 calories. When my daily allowance is 1200, that is painful...
I ate a banana yesterday that was 140 calories.
Tortillas, I switched tortillas for bread years ago because "wraps are better for dieting and bread is bad" then found out that the tortillas were 20 cals higher than the bread
Milk, I didn't think milk would be 120 calories9 -
Mayo
Pretty sad situation. Had to swich to a lighter variety. 6 -
Costco poutine has something like 1300. I used to eat that as a SNACK when I went. No wonder I had such a "bad metabolism" lol46
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Cheesecake 300-400kcal for a tiny piece! Not worth it.12
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Chick-Fil-A sauces are very high in calories for such a little packet!11
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I remember weighing a "large" potato. Holy cow. I don't know how anyone would call that tiny potato large.
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Tortilla wraps. I never gave it much thought until I compared them and bread; I always thought that wraps were a lower calorie option but they aren't really!6
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Any and all hamburgers from restaurants, especially sit-in restaurants. Each burger is at least 800+ calories, with top burgers reaching the 1200 range. With appetizers, a side of fries, and dessert, you've eaten enough for two (possibly three) days. I would only ever be able to fit in a fourth of everything into a day unless I bank calories before and/or cut back after.15
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Any and all hamburgers from restaurants, especially sit-in restaurants. Each burger is at least 800+ calories, with top burgers reaching the 1200 range. With appetizers, a side of fries, and dessert, you've eaten enough for two (possibly three) days. I would only ever be able to fit in a fourth of everything into a day unless I bank calories before and/or cut back after.
ugh. right? My favourite burger from the sit in type places is 1300... nevermind those beer battered onion rings and spicy mayo I dipped them in lol12 -
If you want a excellent tortilla that is low calorie, carb and high fiber I would recommend Ole Xtreme Wellness Tortilla. They are I think 10 inch and 50 calories, 11 dietary fiber, soft and taste excellent.35
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Tahini. I love the flavour, especially in Halva desserts, but it has an eye-watering 600 cals per 100g (or 170 cals per 1 oz).3
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Nuts in general. Not necessarily surprising but it's stupid12
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Any of the Iced Cappuccino / Frappuccino drinks that seem to be so popular7
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I was looking at a slice of carrot cake at the grocery, it was pretty small, maybe 1.5 inches thick at the top. It had 1300 calories.18
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Freddy's Steakburger mini brownie concrete - 880 calories! I'm not even sure how they do that!8
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If you want a excellent tortilla that is low calorie, carb and high fiber I would recommend Ole Xtreme Wellness Tortilla. They are I think 10 inch and 50 calories, 11 dietary fiber, soft and taste excellent.
Sigh.
Not in Canada from what I see.
Tortilla's I'm having are 180 cals and I'd love to try a lower cal version that tastes good.1 -
Granola! The brand I have is 220 calories for 1/2 a cup! I ended up adding 1/8 of a cup to my yogurt, still more calories than I would have liked.7
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Rice. Huge calories in a small amount of rice16
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TavistockToad wrote: »i'm not shocked by it, but peanut butter calories make me a little sad :laugh:
Same here. Oreos are another. Look at the serving size and the calories on the package. It'll flat out shock you. I wish they made a lower calorie version of them but they don't bother. How many of you remember sitting down to eat a third or even half a package of those things with milk in the evenings. My wife always liked chips/dip, I liked oreos and milk haha. No wonder I got so fat. Body by Oreo lol.26
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