Foods with shocking high cals

Francl27 wrote: »

Everything.

Isn't that the truth!!

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.

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.

mrsnattybulking wrote: »

Tacklewasher wrote: »

pdmccone wrote: »

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.

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.

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 )

granola and raisin bran cereal, most fast food, raisins, oatmeal, nuts, beans... i could go on and on

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

Chipotle salads

LadyLilion wrote: »

schtump wrote: »

Detritus_1965 wrote: »

Tortillas

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?

Pack of 6 means a pack of 6 packages of tortillas. Each package of tortillas contains 8, so $24 for 48 tortillas.

Like others have said: peanut butter. I could go to town on that stuff. I refuse to buy/keep any unless it's powdered.

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".

SusanMFindlay wrote: »

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".

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.)