Salad without sauce!! Calorie thoughts please!

21misb21
21misb21 Posts: 4 Member
edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
Hi...... so I love Asdas Ranch colslaw mix, I have it without the sauce and eat it ALOT!! However, the cals are high for what is basically shredded carrot onion etc. What would you put into the cal counter for it please? I'll try to post the nut info in the next comment

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  • deannalfisher
    deannalfisher Posts: 5,600 Member
    search for coleslaw mix no dressing (or similar)
  • 21misb21
    21misb21 Posts: 4 Member
    Great thank you!!!
  • oliverwnc
    oliverwnc Posts: 69 Member
    Try 40kcal, 2P 8C 0F for 100g. Strongly recommend picking up a low/no calorie sauce to go with it. Next level vegetable game!
  • 21misb21
    21misb21 Posts: 4 Member
    Oh no I actually love it on its own haha!! With some nice meat of course. Thanks for the advise
  • bbell1985
    bbell1985 Posts: 4,571 Member
    Yeah once you start piling on the carrots the calories can be surprising. They are sweet and have a decent amount of carbs. Doesn't the mix have a calorie count on the bag? Or only for the slaw with sauce?
  • 21misb21
    21misb21 Posts: 4 Member
    No it's so annoying, just says 95kcal for 100g which I'm assuming includes the dressing and croutons! It's ingredients are broccoli stem carrots and red cabbage, the rest is dressing and croutons
  • SusanMFindlay
    SusanMFindlay Posts: 1,804 Member
    21misb21 wrote: »
    No it's so annoying, just says 95kcal for 100g which I'm assuming includes the dressing and croutons! It's ingredients are broccoli stem carrots and red cabbage, the rest is dressing and croutons

    Log it as an equal weight of carrots. You'll be slightly overestimating (assuming that you're not eating the croutons), but it'll be pretty close.
  • StaciMarie1974
    StaciMarie1974 Posts: 4,138 Member
    SusanMFindlay wrote: »
    21misb21 wrote: »
    No it's so annoying, just says 95kcal for 100g which I'm assuming includes the dressing and croutons! It's ingredients are broccoli stem carrots and red cabbage, the rest is dressing and croutons

    Log it as an equal weight of carrots. You'll be slightly overestimating (assuming that you're not eating the croutons), but it'll be pretty close.

    This is a good point. If you were to eat 100g of carrots or 100g of red cabbage or 100g broccoli stems, the 100g carrots would be about 45 calories (going from memory but I think that's about right) while the 100g broccoli or cabbage would be a little less. SO if you weigh it and log it all as carrots, you'll err on the high side.
  • Hypsibius
    Hypsibius Posts: 207 Member
    I put good balsamic vinegar in all my salads... super low cal and delicious.
  • bbell1985
    bbell1985 Posts: 4,571 Member
    Yeah I agree with logging it as carrot weight. I always try to overestimate when I get steamed veg at a grocery store and there is a decent amount of carrot in it.
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