Surprising Calorie Findings

I am just curious what blew other people’s minds when they started counting calories.
Mine, for example, would be a slice of cheesecake my husband and I ordered last weekend. I mean, it was delicious, and a whopping 1500 calories for ONE SLICE.
Alternatively, my home made mashed potatoes are less than 200 calories per serving and I thought for sure they would be more. I guess some good things in life are not always so terrible! (except for the sodium content, good Lord, but we won’t talk about that. CICO right? LOL)
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  • danielleking844
    danielleking844 Posts: 1 Member
    Mondo drinks are zero calories. You can buy them at Dollar Tree.
  • fatal_degree
    fatal_degree Posts: 22 Member
    Cheese serving size
  • HoneyBadger302
    HoneyBadger302 Posts: 2,069 Member
    I kind of knew a lot of it (from years ago having to do a food tracker as a class assignment), but to this day I still need regular "reminders" on what a serving size really looks like. And that that "healthy" lunch wrap can still pack 500+ calories.
  • dsboohead
    dsboohead Posts: 1,899 Member
    3bambi3 wrote: »
    Wine :( Four ounces just looks like sadness.

    TOTALLY :-) I save some of my calories for wine and it is such a reality check to pour what a "glass" actually is! I need to buy smaller wine glasses so they look more full!

    Actually messes with a persons wine high!
    Needless to say haven't had one in a while!!!
    5 oz of red wine at 120 calories is a dent in my accounts......damnit! Hmmmmm......eat or drink?????
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    Oh, actually...craft beer. I never really thought about the calories in beer...and craft beer is brutal on the calories...but I love it.
  • dsboohead
    dsboohead Posts: 1,899 Member
    3bambi3 wrote: »
    Wine :( Four ounces just looks like sadness.

    TOTALLY :-) I save some of my calories for wine and it is such a reality check to pour what a "glass" actually is! I need to buy smaller wine glasses so they look more full!

    Have you seen wine shot glasses?
  • toxikon
    toxikon Posts: 2,383 Member
    Peanut butter, dried fruit, anything from Applebees... :'(
  • ccruz985
    ccruz985 Posts: 646 Member
    Nuts and dates did it for me.
  • estherdragonbat
    estherdragonbat Posts: 5,283 Member
    On the high end: VH stirfry sauces. And realizing that even a 'thin' hand-sliced piece of bread was often around 1.5 oz.

    On the low end: Shakshuka (basically poached eggs atop a chunky tomato-eggplant sauce). I was looking for an option for dining out with friends and saw it on the menu at a Middle Eastern restaurant. And then I realized that there's almost no way to make a super-caloric version (unless you do something obvious, like serve it swimming in oil. The restaurant actually brings it in a bread bowl, but I request it without). It can run from 150 to around 500 calories.
  • fatal_degree
    fatal_degree Posts: 22 Member
    cwolfman13 wrote: »
    Oh, actually...craft beer. I never really thought about the calories in beer...and craft beer is brutal on the calories...but I love it.

    It is Imperial Bourbon Barrel Aged Stout d!k measuring season and there aren't enough calories in a week to keep up with the new stock at the Wine & Beer Boutique that I work at