Foods with shocking high cals

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  • cbl40
    cbl40 Posts: 281 Member
    quiksylver296 wrote: »
    Spliner1969 wrote: »
    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.

    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'.
  • hesn92
    hesn92 Posts: 5,966 Member
    Francl27 wrote: »
    Everything.

    Isn't that the truth!!
  • LauraInTheWater
    LauraInTheWater Posts: 477 Member
    Walnuts, which I love. And milkshakes. OMG a decent tasting one has a whole day's worth of calories in it!
  • everher
    everher 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.
  • karahm78
    karahm78 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.
  • elizabethmcopeland
    elizabethmcopeland Posts: 167 Member
    gyros/gyro meat/lamb in general

    tastes like beef/steak. is not lean beef/steak.
  • mom23mangos
    mom23mangos Posts: 3,069 Member
    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.
  • MommyMeggo
    MommyMeggo Posts: 1,222 Member
    Cashews.
    Tortilla chips.
    Eggnog.
  • taco_inspector
    taco_inspector 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 )
  • estherdragonbat
    estherdragonbat 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.
  • princess0lexi
    princess0lexi Posts: 3,938 Member
    granola and raisin bran cereal, most fast food, raisins, oatmeal, nuts, beans... i could go on and on
  • scarlett_k
    scarlett_k Posts: 812 Member
    standenvernet wrote: »
    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 )

    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.
  • kimny72
    kimny72 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:
  • janjunie
    janjunie Posts: 1,200 Member
    Cashews, cinnamon buns, basboosa
  • ogtmama
    ogtmama Posts: 1,403 Member
    Chipotle salads
  • ogtmama
    ogtmama Posts: 1,403 Member
    Chocolate chip cookies...370 at Starbucks!
  • kshama2001
    kshama2001 Posts: 28,052 Member
    akoivisto wrote: »
    Spliner1969 wrote: »
    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.

    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.
  • LadyLilion
    LadyLilion Posts: 276 Member
    edited June 2017
    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?

    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
  • stealthq
    stealthq Posts: 4,298 Member
    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.
  • taughc
    taughc 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.
  • Adc7225
    Adc7225 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.
  • SusanMFindlay
    SusanMFindlay 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".

  • tabletop_joe
    tabletop_joe 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.
  • lemurcat12
    lemurcat12 Posts: 30,886 Member
    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.)

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