Photo! How many calories do you think are in this plate?
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My guess is closer to 750 kCal.
1.) Roasted green beans & asparagus (and a carrot lol) - 60 cal
2.) Baked salmon - 120 cal
3.) Piece of skirt steak -150 cal
4.) Piece of roast turkey slice - 80 cal
5.) A forkful if Mac and cheese
- 150 cal
6.) Brown rice - 100 cal
All that oil is at least 100 calories. Likely more. If I were guessing for logging purposes, I'd put it at 800 and try to build an extra 100-200 calories into my deficit onto the next day in case I guessed wrong.
If I ate it, I would know (based on how it digests) just how much oil/butter I'd be worrying about, but I can't tell that from a picture.
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Well, I can say for fairly certain that the salmon fillet is around 200 calories as I used to have one that size on a nightly basis. I would imagine that plate is between 700-800 calories max, possibly a little less. Just look up the individual ingredients to get a rough idea.2
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Graelwyn75 wrote: »Well, I can say for fairly certain that the salmon fillet is around 200 calories as I used to have one that size on a nightly basis. I would imagine that plate is between 700-800 calories max, possibly a little less. Just look up the individual ingredients to get a rough idea.
How can you tell how big it is?1 -
800 cals.0
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collectingblues wrote: »YepItsKriss wrote: »really? 30 calories for rice?
It's almost impossible to tell because the scale of the picture is unclear but brown rice is very slightly over 1 calorie per gram (a normal 1 cup serving is about 195 grams/~200 calories). The picture makes it look like there's about 2 Tablespoons on the plate (again, impossible to really say because of scale), or 1/8 of a cup. Thus, about 25-30 calories.
Scale is definitely the issue here. To me, that rice looks like it's easily 1/4 to half a cup, which would put us at minimum 60 to 120 calories.
USDA says 1 cup brown rice is 248 calories: https://ndb.nal.usda.gov/ndb/foods/show/6506
I compared it with the 'forkful' of mac and cheese. Though you are probably right. I think OP is a little optimistic with her mac and cheese measurements!
I just grabbed the calories in brown rice from a bag of Carolina brand. That says 150 calories per 3/4 cup cooked. Screw it, brown rice is gross anyway.
Yeah, to me, that's way more than a forkful. I'd call the mac and cheese at least two tablespoons. If I were logging it, I'd call it 1/4 cup so I could feel better about it and be OK with overshooting.0 -
collectingblues wrote: »collectingblues wrote: »YepItsKriss wrote: »really? 30 calories for rice?
It's almost impossible to tell because the scale of the picture is unclear but brown rice is very slightly over 1 calorie per gram (a normal 1 cup serving is about 195 grams/~200 calories). The picture makes it look like there's about 2 Tablespoons on the plate (again, impossible to really say because of scale), or 1/8 of a cup. Thus, about 25-30 calories.
Scale is definitely the issue here. To me, that rice looks like it's easily 1/4 to half a cup, which would put us at minimum 60 to 120 calories.
USDA says 1 cup brown rice is 248 calories: https://ndb.nal.usda.gov/ndb/foods/show/6506
I compared it with the 'forkful' of mac and cheese. Though you are probably right. I think OP is a little optimistic with her mac and cheese measurements!
I just grabbed the calories in brown rice from a bag of Carolina brand. That says 150 calories per 3/4 cup cooked. Screw it, brown rice is gross anyway.
Yeah, to me, that's way more than a forkful. I'd call the mac and cheese at least two tablespoons. If I were logging it, I'd call it 1/4 cup so I could feel better about it and be OK with overshooting.
Really? I see 4 pieces of pasta... that's only a mouthful!1 -
I dunno but it all looks yummy!0
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My first thought is that really looks like two meals there whatever the actual calorie count.1
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TavistockToad wrote: »collectingblues wrote: »collectingblues wrote: »YepItsKriss wrote: »really? 30 calories for rice?
It's almost impossible to tell because the scale of the picture is unclear but brown rice is very slightly over 1 calorie per gram (a normal 1 cup serving is about 195 grams/~200 calories). The picture makes it look like there's about 2 Tablespoons on the plate (again, impossible to really say because of scale), or 1/8 of a cup. Thus, about 25-30 calories.
Scale is definitely the issue here. To me, that rice looks like it's easily 1/4 to half a cup, which would put us at minimum 60 to 120 calories.
USDA says 1 cup brown rice is 248 calories: https://ndb.nal.usda.gov/ndb/foods/show/6506
I compared it with the 'forkful' of mac and cheese. Though you are probably right. I think OP is a little optimistic with her mac and cheese measurements!
I just grabbed the calories in brown rice from a bag of Carolina brand. That says 150 calories per 3/4 cup cooked. Screw it, brown rice is gross anyway.
Yeah, to me, that's way more than a forkful. I'd call the mac and cheese at least two tablespoons. If I were logging it, I'd call it 1/4 cup so I could feel better about it and be OK with overshooting.
Really? I see 4 pieces of pasta... that's only a mouthful!
It's hard to tell if it's something small, like shells, or if it's something bigger, like celletani. If it's small, there's more than four there (I can see more than four bends), but if it's celletani, I'd call it *maybe* four. Plus, you don't know how deep it is.
Maybe I'm strange (always a possibility), but that's more than a mouthful to me.0 -
I see about 800 calories homemade with little/no added fat, so 1000 may be close
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I’m in, I’ll say 700 calories:
4 oz salmon cooked
2 oz steak
2 oz turkey
1 oz Mac n cheese
3 oz cooked brown rice
3 oz veg
1 tbsp oil
Weighs in at 15.5 oz and 669 calories using my choices from the database so I’ll round it up to 700 calories for that other 0.5 of an ounce.
(I do this by eyeball all the time at the salad bar at my local gourmet grocery. I never buy cucumber anymore, too heavy!)
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I’m in the “about 750” camp. If logging it as 1000 is working for you I see no reason to change it. However, if you’re hungry splitting it in half it’s worth weighing a few times to get an idea. They make pocketable scales but if you’re uncomfortable doing it there you can weigh it when you get back to work or home. I’d add at least 100-150 for oil.
Scales are super cheap, you could have one on your doorstep in a day two from Amazon.0 -
My guess would be 850 calories.2
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I feel like this is “the dress” of meals!! Blue and black or white and gold?!?? One bite of Mac and cheese or several?!??
All joking aside, I say around 800 calories. However like others also stated, if you are ok with how your weight is managing by eating this so often, then it must be within your guidelines.
Also, if you eat half at work and the other half at home, then weigh the second half of the meal when you get home. Then you just multiply that by 2. Add an extra 150 or so for the oils and that’s how you will probably be most accurate if you don’t want to weigh at work.
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Rough estimate 800 calories, 70 g protein.1
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1.) Roasted green beans & asparagus - 70 cal
2.) Baked salmon - 150 cal
3.) Piece of skirt steak -150 cal
4.) Piece of roast turkey slice - 80 cal
5.) A forkful if Mac and cheese- 100 cal
6.) Brown rice - 100 cal
7.) oil - I'm going to guess 3 tablespoons because honestly so many places use a TON of oil and oil was likely added to the salmon and steak - 330 calories
so around 1000 looks right to me.1
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