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    Foods with shocking high cals

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    • Posts: 281 Member
      quiksylver296 wrote: »
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      Man, I would stab somebody for a sleeve of Oreos and a giant glass of ice cold milk. That sounds SO good!

      Oreo Thins are crack. Just sayin'.
    • Posts: 5,966 Member
      Francl27 wrote: »
      Everything.

      Isn't that the truth!!
    • Posts: 477 Member
      Walnuts, which I love. And milkshakes. OMG a decent tasting one has a whole day's worth of calories in it!
    • Posts: 909 Member
      LadyLilion wrote: »
      Anything sold in a restaurant, especially fast food. Yes, I know that I should expect it. But how the heck do you make a chicken sandwich or a salad have 1,000 calories?

      This.

      I contribute a lot of the weight I gained in recent years to eating out at restaurants a lot more frequently than I used to and not realizing how many calories are in most restaurant dishes.

      Eating out is a rare occurrence for me now. Yes, I could eat half of a restaurant portion or I could get grilled veggies with some sort of protein, but I find I enjoy making what I actually want at home for usually the same or less calories with far less sodium.
    • Posts: 505 Member
      AVOCADO!!! I love them and it makes me cry.... yes they are healthy and I still eat them but in smaller portions, I used to eat a whole one in one sitting, now I split them in half. I do weigh it in grams, some of them are over 100 calories for a HALF depending on the size.
    • Posts: 167 Member
      gyros/gyro meat/lamb in general

      tastes like beef/steak. is not lean beef/steak.
    • Posts: 3,069 Member
      mrsnattybulking wrote: »
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      I'm not low carb but I go shop at their stores for La Tortilla Factory tortillas and they're amazing. I buy the smaller ones for tacos @ 70 cals (we count the fibre as calories so they're the same as the 45cal US ones) I get it at Low Carb Grocery; they also have large ones for 110 cals but 10g protein and tons of fibre

      My grocery store sells Jicama tortillas. You could make your own with a mandolin slicer, but it's nice to just buy them pre-cut. 7 calories per tortilla. Or course it doesn't taste anything like a tortilla as it's a fruit, but it does the job of holding stuff together and is nice and crunchy.

      Nuts, cheese and fruit were the biggest eye openers for me when I started. Ice cream, milk, oats, granola, beans, quinoa too.
    • Posts: 1,222 Member
      Cashews.
      Tortilla chips.
      Eggnog.
    • Posts: 7,223 Member
      scarlett_k wrote: »
      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!

      Not a tortilla but more of a flat bread... I've been working with "Flat Outs" for awhile to roll stuff for lunches. Anywhere from 90-130 cals per "sheet" (kinda a flat-sided oval shape; about 7x10 inches) depending on what variety you select. Their "Core 12" wraps have 12G of protein with 8g net-carbs for 130 cals -- not terrible at all, and available in Canadia too @Tacklewasher ! (link --> https://www.flatoutbread.com )
    • Posts: 5,283 Member
      The Timothy's near me stocks kosher pastries from a bakery I frequent. Because, in Ontario, all chains with more than... 20? 25? locations must list calories of everything served, the pastries are labeled, despite the bakery itself only having 2 locations. 1/2 jam pastry=610 calories? 1 turnover=580? Hoooooooooooooooboy.
    • Posts: 3,938 Member
      granola and raisin bran cereal, most fast food, raisins, oatmeal, nuts, beans... i could go on and on
    • Posts: 812 Member
      standenvernet wrote: »
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      Not a tortilla but more of a flat bread... I've been working with "Flat Outs" for awhile to roll stuff for lunches. Anywhere from 90-130 cals per "sheet" (kinda a flat-sided oval shape; about 7x10 inches) depending on what variety you select. Their "Core 12" wraps have 12G of protein with 8g net-carbs for 130 cals -- not terrible at all, and available in Canadia too @Tacklewasher ! (link --> https://www.flatoutbread.com )

      I'm in the UK so no joy here... I will continue my search but I might just try making my own chapati style flatbread to use as a wrap.
    • Posts: 16,011 Member
      Nuts and milkshakes. I mean, I knew both were high cal items but just how high cal was shocking. I went hiking once and decided to use up some of the extra cals at Dairy Queen. I pulled into the lot and brought up the website on my phone to decide what to order and nearly dropped my phone looking at the calories of the shakes! Even with the hiking cals I couldn't fit one in :cry:
    • Posts: 1,200 Member
      Cashews, cinnamon buns, basboosa
    • Posts: 1,403 Member
      Chipotle salads
    • Posts: 1,403 Member
      Chocolate chip cookies...370 at Starbucks!
    • Posts: 28,055 Member
      akoivisto wrote: »
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      1/3 or 1/2 a package? You can stop before the 'whole package'?

      *prostrates* Oh great God of Willpower! Teacheth me thine ways! *grovel grovel grovel* :)

      Yup, is one reason why I don't have Oreos in the house.
    • Posts: 276 Member
      edited June 2017
      schtump wrote: »
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      https://www.walmart.com/ip/Ole-Mexican-Xtreme-Wellness-High-Fiber-Low-Carb-Tortilla-Wraps-12.7-oz-Pack-of-6/27617770?wmlspartner=wlpa&adid=22222222227018944871&wl0=&wl1=g&wl2=c&wl3=40891269032&wl4=pla-78820699352&wl5=9016466&wl6=&wl7=&wl8=&wl9=pla&wl10=8175035&wl11=online&wl12=27617770&wl13=&veh=sem

      I'm living on these. 50 cal, high fiber, relatively low carbs. And they taste amazing.

      I must be reading this wrong. Those aren't seriously $24/ a package? I mean, it says 1 package, but that must be a case or something, right?

      Edit: Okay...now I see it's a pack of 6 packages and each package has 8 tortillas, so it's 48 tortillas...Much better. lol
    • Posts: 4,298 Member
      LadyLilion wrote: »
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      I must be reading this wrong. Those aren't seriously $24/ a package? I mean, it says 1 package, but that must be a case or something, right?

      Pack of 6 means a pack of 6 packages of tortillas. Each package of tortillas contains 8, so $24 for 48 tortillas.
    • Posts: 17 Member
      Like others have said: peanut butter. I could go to town on that stuff. :'( I refuse to buy/keep any unless it's powdered.
    • Posts: 1,318 Member
      Everything good :)

      I think I was more surprised by serving sizes than calories, at the point where you really try and work with the numbers it can be so frustrating balancing the serving sizes.

      Tortilla Chips (all chips, why come in such large bags when I'm only supposed to eat 12), Candy, Nuts, Beef :o

      Somethings we have to learn why they are worth the calories, some we try and balance into our diets, while others we just give up on.
    • Posts: 1,804 Member
      LadyLilion wrote: »
      Anything sold in a restaurant, especially fast food. Yes, I know that I should expect it. But how the heck do you make a chicken sandwich or a salad have 1,000 calories?

      Biggest one lately though, has been money mustard salad dressing. At home I always buy the light versions. I love it. It's the only one I ever order if I'm out and I never, EVER would have thought it was so fattening. It's higher than Ranch! I blew an entire dinner I thought I'd done very well on one night when I got home and entered the darn dressing.

      Interesting. I find fast food much easier to do on a calorie budget than sit down restaurant food. The key is to get the "small" of everything (and get diet soda or water to drink). I can get a fast food burger for about 400 calories, but a sit down restaurant burger is going to be 800 calories minimum because of the huge fancy bun and all of the high-cal extras they put on to make it "fancy".

    • Posts: 455 Member
      RE: Tortillas

      Take solace! There's a 50/50 (half corn, half flour) blue tortilla by Tortilla Factory that's 90 calories each. I love them and they're a lot easier to include occasionally than those 200 calorie per pop guys.
    • Posts: 30,886 Member
      SusanMFindlay wrote: »
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      Interesting. I find fast food much easier to do on a calorie budget than sit down restaurant food. The key is to get the "small" of everything (and get diet soda or water to drink). I can get a fast food burger for about 400 calories, but a sit down restaurant burger is going to be 800 calories minimum because of the huge fancy bun and all of the high-cal extras they put on to make it "fancy".

      Yeah, agreed. I don't really like fast food burgers, and certainly can make lower cal ones at home, but it's not hard to find a reasonable cal lunch from a fast food burger, whereas other restaurant burgers (which I splurge on occasionally) are nuts, especially compared to my at home burger. And those are the ones I know, most of the places I might get a burger are local places that don't post calories, but you can tell.

      That said, there are lots of restaurants with quite reasonable cal food -- that Potbelly's mentioned before is a place I used to get sandwiches often (before watching cals), and was pleased to see my usual order came in around 300 cal. (I also used to get one of their cookies, that come in around 400 cal -- and have the calories right there, I just ignored them -- often enough. Those are never worth it now, sigh.)
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