Foods with shocking high cals
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7-Eleven cherry cruller. 660 calories in one donut. I think I actually cried when I found that out.3
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Peanut butter makes me super sad. I love the stuff.
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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.
They do!! Have you not had the Oreo thins?0 -
Does anyone remember the Fig Newton thins? My favorite was banana with dark chocolate.2
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so this has most likely been mentioned several times over, but i'll mention it again: PEANUT BUTTER. WTF? how? honestly, i still cannot form a full sentence about it. re-shocks me about twice a year.0
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cariduttry wrote: »so this has most likely been mentioned several times over, but i'll mention it again: PEANUT BUTTER. WTF? how? honestly, i still cannot form a full sentence about it. re-shocks me about twice a year.
I save nut butter as a weekend "treat", and it drives me insane how just a few spoon fulls from the jar is a full meals calories. Every bone in my body tells me to eat it like yogurt right from the jar, but one jar of peanut butter is a whopping 2,000+ calories!
I've read some people smear peanut butter on things. I don't understand how it's supposed to go from the jar to another surface without first entering my mouth
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For whatever reason, I don't like plain nut butter. The texture doesn't appeal to me and plus using that many calories on what is essentially licking the spoon doesn't work for me, I need foods to involving sitting down and eating them thoughtfully if I am going to spend real calories.
Luckily, or perhaps unfortunately, I have discovered that half a serving of nut butter in some yogurt mixes better than I would have thought and is absolutely delicious. That makes the volume a little better per calorie, but still, sigh.1 -
Every single morsel of food that I like7
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lemurcat12 wrote: »Luckily, or perhaps unfortunately, I have discovered that half a serving of nut butter in some yogurt mixes better than I would have thought and is absolutely delicious. That makes the volume a little better per calorie, but still, sigh.
PB2 in greek yogurt goes amazing, and comes close to recreating the thickness/texture that I think a lot of us go after. The thick goopy texture, I have a feeling, is probably exactly what so many of us go crazy for. You're fortunate to not share the itch!2 -
cariduttry wrote: »so this has most likely been mentioned several times over, but i'll mention it again: PEANUT BUTTER. WTF? how? honestly, i still cannot form a full sentence about it. re-shocks me about twice a year.
I have basically cut peanut butter out of my life, despite it being a top 5 favorite food. It's a very rare treat. I simply cannot eat a reasonable amount
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Mmm, a little protein powder in greek yogurt. Turns it into dessert.
I'm going to try the PB2..0 -
annaskiski wrote: »Mmm, a little protein powder in greek yogurt. Turns it into dessert.
I'm going to try the PB2..
mind blown. totes going to try this. i've had pb2 and it's not horrid!0 -
Geocitiesuser wrote: »lemurcat12 wrote: »Luckily, or perhaps unfortunately, I have discovered that half a serving of nut butter in some yogurt mixes better than I would have thought and is absolutely delicious. That makes the volume a little better per calorie, but still, sigh.
PB2 in greek yogurt goes amazing, and comes close to recreating the thickness/texture that I think a lot of us go after. The thick goopy texture, I have a feeling, is probably exactly what so many of us go crazy for. You're fortunate to not share the itch!
Thanks for the idea- I'll have to try that. Bet it would be good in an 80 cal. Dannon banana cream
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cariduttry wrote: »annaskiski wrote: »Mmm, a little protein powder in greek yogurt. Turns it into dessert.
I'm going to try the PB2..
mind blown. totes going to try this. i've had pb2 and it's not horrid!
Yeah, but it's lousy in a PB&J 0 -
[/quote]cariduttry wrote: »annaskiski wrote: »Mmm, a little protein powder in greek yogurt. Turns it into dessert.
I'm going to try the PB2..
mind blown. totes going to try this. i've had pb2 and it's not horrid!
Yeah, but it's lousy in a PB&J
agreed :-/
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kshama2001 wrote: »Now I want baklava...
Me too. And I can put away a 300g plate of it all in one sitting.
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ice cream can have a lot of calories for half a cup and i think some of ben and jerrys are shocking for half a cup.0
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princess0lexi wrote: »ice cream can have a lot of calories for half a cup and i think some of ben and jerrys are shocking for half a cup.
I think it's shocking that anyone considers half a cup of ice cream to be an adequate serving size!
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LadyLilion wrote: »princess0lexi wrote: »ice cream can have a lot of calories for half a cup and i think some of ben and jerrys are shocking for half a cup.
I think it's shocking that anyone considers half a cup of ice cream to be an adequate serving size!
The Breyer's ice cream I eat is 150 cal/half cup serving, I have room for 2 of them on days I run, and if you measure it by weight it looks like a hell of a lot more than half a cup.2 -
What's sad is this whole thread just makes me hungry
Also, the person who said wings - yes! I forgot about those. I love wings but the calorie count is like the bane of my existence.
We make buffalo cauliflower with roasted cauliflower or florets tossed in cornstarch and pan-fried. Then we toss with hot sauce and eat with lettuce and blue cheese dressing my hubby makes. It takes the urge for wings away, and we are starting to prefer these mock wings...3 -
LadyLilion wrote: »princess0lexi wrote: »ice cream can have a lot of calories for half a cup and i think some of ben and jerrys are shocking for half a cup.
I think it's shocking that anyone considers half a cup of ice cream to be an adequate serving size!
The Breyer's ice cream I eat is 150 cal/half cup serving, I have room for 2 of them on days I run, and if you measure it by weight it looks like a hell of a lot more than half a cup.
I agree! Ice cream is one of the few foods that when I started weighing it in grams rather than measuring it with a half cup scoop, it comes out to a bigger serving. But it's one of those things that if I make the mistake of taking a spoon to the pint I'm liable to hoover the whole 900 cal thing. But if I put a weighed portion in the bowl and and go sit down with it, I'm perfectly satisfied with the one serving. 2 -
Mackerel. I ordered a 6OZ steamed mackerel steak once because I thought what can go wrong with steamed fish. Turned out to be like 800 cal. Higher than Salmon. All that fat -- I don't care if it's healthy fat! So upset haha. Lesson learned. FML0
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Another I'll add.. CEREAL. Even the healthy ones, once you weigh an actual serving size on the scale and realize how meager it is compared to what you're used to pouring in the bowl. Shocking.
Raley's/Nob Hill Wild Blueberry with Flax Granola -- 3/4 cup is 250 calories. That's 300 calories when you add the almond milk! (You can add 600 calories to me.)
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I agree wholeheartedly on the ice cream. I SPLIT a malt with my dad and my half was (roughly) 560 calories. My sister had an entire one. I probably could've drank a whole one but I am aware of the calories. I am appalled at how many 'hidden calories' exist in this world. Since I don't want to ruin my family's enjoyment of food, (even though calorie awareness doesn't ruin mine) I refrain from telling them about how many calories are in things. I'm the only one that reads labels and counts. I feel bad about not making them aware (and they don't ask and don't care either) when I see them eat over 2000 in one sitting. Anyone else experience this? I think pizza places are some of the biggest offenders because serving sizes are so ambiguous there.3
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The only fast food burgers I eat any more are in kids' meals. (I order a kid's meal with fruit - I'm not running around stealing kids' hamburgers!SusanMFindlay wrote: »kshama2001 wrote: »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".
I only eat half of a sit down restaurant burger per meal.
I typically have 2-3 bites of "the whole thing" then pick up a knife and fork and eat the rest bunless (which has the added benefit of eliminating as much of the mayo/sauce as sticks to the bun). I don't really like the idea of leftover burger, so I'd rather focus on the yummy middle part. If I don't finish it, no big deal.
... ) And even those are pretty high. I only eat them on days when I exercise a lot.
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Muffins. I've said it before and I'll say it again. They're like the TARDIS for calories.8
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Thanks to you guys and this thread, you saved me from extra unlogged calories!
My boyfriend does all of the cooking and figures out my portions. He made homemade Quesadillas tonight and after logging...it seemed off. I thought about this thread and asked: "You didn't use ANY seasoning, sauces, or butter to make the Quesadilla??"
Turns out he used Olive Oil and didn't bother to mention it because he uses so little. I was like "Umm that's like 60 calories. That stuff adds up fast to me not getting to have my nightly brownie & milk really fast!"
Much like my realizing my piles of green olives were high in calories....I "knew" he must be using a bit of oil, but don't always remember to ask. Thanks for this thread, guys! Excellent reminder!5 -
I'm not shocked at much anymore. Olives can add up in an annoying manner. Makes sense though.0
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WendyLeigh1119 wrote: »Thanks to you guys and this thread, you saved me from extra unlogged calories!
My boyfriend does all of the cooking and figures out my portions. He made homemade Quesadillas tonight and after logging...it seemed off. I thought about this thread and asked: "You didn't use ANY seasoning, sauces, or butter to make the Quesadilla??"
Turns out he used Olive Oil and didn't bother to mention it because he uses so little. I was like "Umm that's like 60 calories. That stuff adds up fast to me not getting to have my nightly brownie & milk really fast!"
Much like my realizing my piles of green olives were high in calories....I "knew" he must be using a bit of oil, but don't always remember to ask. Thanks for this thread, guys! Excellent reminder!
Also remember, olive oil comes from olives. Even without adding oil, they are about 10% fat.2 -
Alatariel75 wrote: »WendyLeigh1119 wrote: »Thanks to you guys and this thread, you saved me from extra unlogged calories!
My boyfriend does all of the cooking and figures out my portions. He made homemade Quesadillas tonight and after logging...it seemed off. I thought about this thread and asked: "You didn't use ANY seasoning, sauces, or butter to make the Quesadilla??"
Turns out he used Olive Oil and didn't bother to mention it because he uses so little. I was like "Umm that's like 60 calories. That stuff adds up fast to me not getting to have my nightly brownie & milk really fast!"
Much like my realizing my piles of green olives were high in calories....I "knew" he must be using a bit of oil, but don't always remember to ask. Thanks for this thread, guys! Excellent reminder!
Also remember, olive oil comes from olives. Even without adding oil, they are about 10% fat.
These olives just keep coming back to haunt me.
And he bought "light" sour cream instead of "fat free" and didn't tell me. So I was still logging it as "fat free". Agggghhhh! I eat what I want if that's what I've decided, but I do NOT want extra calories in stuff I'd gladly forego for something better later!
The fats I don't worry about too much. My daily intake is usually under 20% of my Macros at worst.2
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