I guess "Whole" Foods does not mean "healthy"...
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But 700+ calories.... ouch!
a home made scone of same size/ weight wouldn't top 380 cals so I know which one I'll be sticking with. 2 -
LivingtheLeanDream wrote: »But 700+ calories.... ouch! a home made scone of same size/ weight wouldn't top 380 cals so I know which one I'll be sticking with.
Yeah, there's a reason that's the only time I ever had it!6 -
Muffins are just cupcakes with a better marketing dept
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fuzzylop72 wrote: »Muffins are just cupcakes with a better marketing dept
yep - just like squirrels are rats with fluffy tails and really good PR agents!8 -
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MyrnaSolganick wrote: »What I dont get is how they can offer such an item in the bakery
What do you mean? It's a bakery.19 -
Just to be clear health and calorie density are two wholly separate things and shouldn't be related to one another.
Being healthy is receiving adequate nutrition and maintaining a reasonable percent bodyfat as high bodyfat can cause a lot of health issues.
You can eat high calorie foods and be perfectly healthy, it is not like a 700 calorie muffin is in and of itself unhealthy. If a person ate nothing but that muffin then yeah, they would be unhealthy...but if a person ate nothing but kale they would be unhealthy too.
Health is getting the right amount of nutrients within a budget of calories that is reasonable. I guess the muffin is "unhealthy" in the sense it has little nutrients and a large number of calories so if you are someone whose calorie budget is low then it could be considered a poor choice. Still, doesn't make the muffin itself bad in like an objective sense. Some people have a calorie budget of 4000 in which case that muffin is a reasonable snack.10 -
Was that muffin about half the size of your head? Your math indicates that the thing should have weighed about 200 grams, which is roughly 7 ounces. Since a slice of white bread is a serving for about 1 ounce, the muffin had the calories of a tower of bread 7 slices high. Wow. They should give a prize to people who get the 'whole' thing in their mouth.3
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MyrnaSolganick wrote: »Found out a muffin Iiked from Whole Food bakery - a vegan chocolate chip muffin - has - are we ready? 780 calories. I was stunned. that is more than half my daily calories. That means a quarter of the muffin - which is not much - packs 195 calories. I wont be eating that muffin any more. What I dont get is how they can offer such an item in the bakery - and what the hey is in it that packs that many calories? I think cheesecake is even less caloric than the muffin!
There is plenty of garbage to be bought at Whole Foods.
Having said that, which part of that muffin is whole food exactly? Because as far as I can tell its all processed.
Yeah, Whole Foods doesn't mean they sell only whole foods (and a muffin obviously is processed).
WF also sells a whole variety of stuff, including B&J's vegan ice cream, which you'd better believe is high cal.
Also, at my store, they sell Jeni's, which is not in my usual grocery.
They sell tons of high cal prepared foods, and some excellent cheese options, and -- again in my store -- a decent variety of wine and beer. Not sure why someone would think that something from WF would be low cal (or a "whole food").
They also have a really good selection of fruits and veg in my local store, and plenty of other things I like, I enjoy shopping there and am not slamming them for having a wide variety of foods like any other decent grocery.5 -
lemurcat12 wrote: »MyrnaSolganick wrote: »Found out a muffin Iiked from Whole Food bakery - a vegan chocolate chip muffin - has - are we ready? 780 calories. I was stunned. that is more than half my daily calories. That means a quarter of the muffin - which is not much - packs 195 calories. I wont be eating that muffin any more. What I dont get is how they can offer such an item in the bakery - and what the hey is in it that packs that many calories? I think cheesecake is even less caloric than the muffin!
There is plenty of garbage to be bought at Whole Foods.
Having said that, which part of that muffin is whole food exactly? Because as far as I can tell its all processed.
Yeah, Whole Foods doesn't mean they sell only whole foods (and a muffin obviously is processed).
WF also sells a whole variety of stuff, including B&J's vegan ice cream, which you'd better believe is high cal.
Also, at my store, they sell Jeni's, which is not in my usual grocery.
They sell tons of high cal prepared foods, and some excellent cheese options, and -- again in my store -- a decent variety of wine and beer. Not sure why someone would think that something from WF would be low cal (or a "whole food").
They also have a really good selection of fruits and veg in my local store, and plenty of other things I like, I enjoy shopping there and am not slamming them for having a wide variety of foods like any other decent grocery.
I love my WF for their quality of fruits and veggies (organic or not), seafood and fantastic grass fed / organic meat. This is "whole food".
Any "junky" stuff can be had MUCH much cheaper elsewhere.
Valid point. If you are going to go to a place like Whole Foods not sure why you'd go there to buy a muffin.2 -
Aaron_K123 wrote: »lemurcat12 wrote: »MyrnaSolganick wrote: »Found out a muffin Iiked from Whole Food bakery - a vegan chocolate chip muffin - has - are we ready? 780 calories. I was stunned. that is more than half my daily calories. That means a quarter of the muffin - which is not much - packs 195 calories. I wont be eating that muffin any more. What I dont get is how they can offer such an item in the bakery - and what the hey is in it that packs that many calories? I think cheesecake is even less caloric than the muffin!
There is plenty of garbage to be bought at Whole Foods.
Having said that, which part of that muffin is whole food exactly? Because as far as I can tell its all processed.
Yeah, Whole Foods doesn't mean they sell only whole foods (and a muffin obviously is processed).
WF also sells a whole variety of stuff, including B&J's vegan ice cream, which you'd better believe is high cal.
Also, at my store, they sell Jeni's, which is not in my usual grocery.
They sell tons of high cal prepared foods, and some excellent cheese options, and -- again in my store -- a decent variety of wine and beer. Not sure why someone would think that something from WF would be low cal (or a "whole food").
They also have a really good selection of fruits and veg in my local store, and plenty of other things I like, I enjoy shopping there and am not slamming them for having a wide variety of foods like any other decent grocery.
I love my WF for their quality of fruits and veggies (organic or not), seafood and fantastic grass fed / organic meat. This is "whole food".
Any "junky" stuff can be had MUCH much cheaper elsewhere.
Valid point. If you are going to go to a place like Whole Foods not sure why you'd go there to buy a muffin.
Some people will just naïvely assume that it must be "healthy" if it's sold in a "health foods" store.2 -
Aaron_K123 wrote: »lemurcat12 wrote: »MyrnaSolganick wrote: »Found out a muffin Iiked from Whole Food bakery - a vegan chocolate chip muffin - has - are we ready? 780 calories. I was stunned. that is more than half my daily calories. That means a quarter of the muffin - which is not much - packs 195 calories. I wont be eating that muffin any more. What I dont get is how they can offer such an item in the bakery - and what the hey is in it that packs that many calories? I think cheesecake is even less caloric than the muffin!
There is plenty of garbage to be bought at Whole Foods.
Having said that, which part of that muffin is whole food exactly? Because as far as I can tell its all processed.
Yeah, Whole Foods doesn't mean they sell only whole foods (and a muffin obviously is processed).
WF also sells a whole variety of stuff, including B&J's vegan ice cream, which you'd better believe is high cal.
Also, at my store, they sell Jeni's, which is not in my usual grocery.
They sell tons of high cal prepared foods, and some excellent cheese options, and -- again in my store -- a decent variety of wine and beer. Not sure why someone would think that something from WF would be low cal (or a "whole food").
They also have a really good selection of fruits and veg in my local store, and plenty of other things I like, I enjoy shopping there and am not slamming them for having a wide variety of foods like any other decent grocery.
I love my WF for their quality of fruits and veggies (organic or not), seafood and fantastic grass fed / organic meat. This is "whole food".
Any "junky" stuff can be had MUCH much cheaper elsewhere.
Valid point. If you are going to go to a place like Whole Foods not sure why you'd go there to buy a muffin.
Some people will just naïvely assume that it must be "healthy" if it's sold in a "health foods" store.
To me getting mad that a "health" food store sells a high calorie muffin because you personally are trying to restrict your calories to a low level is kind of like someone getting mad that a "health" food store sells peanuts because they have a peanut allergy and therefore peanuts are clearly not conducive to health.18 -
Aaron_K123 wrote: »Aaron_K123 wrote: »lemurcat12 wrote: »MyrnaSolganick wrote: »Found out a muffin Iiked from Whole Food bakery - a vegan chocolate chip muffin - has - are we ready? 780 calories. I was stunned. that is more than half my daily calories. That means a quarter of the muffin - which is not much - packs 195 calories. I wont be eating that muffin any more. What I dont get is how they can offer such an item in the bakery - and what the hey is in it that packs that many calories? I think cheesecake is even less caloric than the muffin!
There is plenty of garbage to be bought at Whole Foods.
Having said that, which part of that muffin is whole food exactly? Because as far as I can tell its all processed.
Yeah, Whole Foods doesn't mean they sell only whole foods (and a muffin obviously is processed).
WF also sells a whole variety of stuff, including B&J's vegan ice cream, which you'd better believe is high cal.
Also, at my store, they sell Jeni's, which is not in my usual grocery.
They sell tons of high cal prepared foods, and some excellent cheese options, and -- again in my store -- a decent variety of wine and beer. Not sure why someone would think that something from WF would be low cal (or a "whole food").
They also have a really good selection of fruits and veg in my local store, and plenty of other things I like, I enjoy shopping there and am not slamming them for having a wide variety of foods like any other decent grocery.
I love my WF for their quality of fruits and veggies (organic or not), seafood and fantastic grass fed / organic meat. This is "whole food".
Any "junky" stuff can be had MUCH much cheaper elsewhere.
Valid point. If you are going to go to a place like Whole Foods not sure why you'd go there to buy a muffin.
Some people will just naïvely assume that it must be "healthy" if it's sold in a "health foods" store.
To me getting mad that a "health" food store sells a high calorie muffin because you personally are trying to restrict your calories to a low level is kind of like someone getting mad that a "health" food store sells peanuts because they have a peanut allergy and therefore peanuts are clearly not conducive to health.
Oh, I agree completely. I was just making an observation.
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lemurcat12 wrote: »MyrnaSolganick wrote: »Found out a muffin Iiked from Whole Food bakery - a vegan chocolate chip muffin - has - are we ready? 780 calories. I was stunned. that is more than half my daily calories. That means a quarter of the muffin - which is not much - packs 195 calories. I wont be eating that muffin any more. What I dont get is how they can offer such an item in the bakery - and what the hey is in it that packs that many calories? I think cheesecake is even less caloric than the muffin!
There is plenty of garbage to be bought at Whole Foods.
Having said that, which part of that muffin is whole food exactly? Because as far as I can tell its all processed.
Yeah, Whole Foods doesn't mean they sell only whole foods (and a muffin obviously is processed).
WF also sells a whole variety of stuff, including B&J's vegan ice cream, which you'd better believe is high cal.
Also, at my store, they sell Jeni's, which is not in my usual grocery.
They sell tons of high cal prepared foods, and some excellent cheese options, and -- again in my store -- a decent variety of wine and beer. Not sure why someone would think that something from WF would be low cal (or a "whole food").
They also have a really good selection of fruits and veg in my local store, and plenty of other things I like, I enjoy shopping there and am not slamming them for having a wide variety of foods like any other decent grocery.
I love my WF for their quality of fruits and veggies (organic or not), seafood and fantastic grass fed / organic meat. This is "whole food".
Any "junky" stuff can be had MUCH much cheaper elsewhere.
Finding *vegan* chocolate chip muffins elsewhere is going to be tricky (depending on where you live, of course).2 -
Aaron_K123 wrote: »lemurcat12 wrote: »MyrnaSolganick wrote: »Found out a muffin Iiked from Whole Food bakery - a vegan chocolate chip muffin - has - are we ready? 780 calories. I was stunned. that is more than half my daily calories. That means a quarter of the muffin - which is not much - packs 195 calories. I wont be eating that muffin any more. What I dont get is how they can offer such an item in the bakery - and what the hey is in it that packs that many calories? I think cheesecake is even less caloric than the muffin!
There is plenty of garbage to be bought at Whole Foods.
Having said that, which part of that muffin is whole food exactly? Because as far as I can tell its all processed.
Yeah, Whole Foods doesn't mean they sell only whole foods (and a muffin obviously is processed).
WF also sells a whole variety of stuff, including B&J's vegan ice cream, which you'd better believe is high cal.
Also, at my store, they sell Jeni's, which is not in my usual grocery.
They sell tons of high cal prepared foods, and some excellent cheese options, and -- again in my store -- a decent variety of wine and beer. Not sure why someone would think that something from WF would be low cal (or a "whole food").
They also have a really good selection of fruits and veg in my local store, and plenty of other things I like, I enjoy shopping there and am not slamming them for having a wide variety of foods like any other decent grocery.
I love my WF for their quality of fruits and veggies (organic or not), seafood and fantastic grass fed / organic meat. This is "whole food".
Any "junky" stuff can be had MUCH much cheaper elsewhere.
Valid point. If you are going to go to a place like Whole Foods not sure why you'd go there to buy a muffin.
They did used to have baked goods and hot bar items that were marked to indicate that they were free of oil, refined sugar, and salt. I wish I could remember more about the line, I just remember the labels were pink and they had this vegan, No Oil Banana Date Muffin that I absolutely loved. I'm certain it wasn't particularly low calorie either, but I had no issue maintaining while eating one several times a week for dessert! It was on my way home from work and I guestimated 300 calories for it.
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Aaron_K123 wrote: »lemurcat12 wrote: »MyrnaSolganick wrote: »Found out a muffin Iiked from Whole Food bakery - a vegan chocolate chip muffin - has - are we ready? 780 calories. I was stunned. that is more than half my daily calories. That means a quarter of the muffin - which is not much - packs 195 calories. I wont be eating that muffin any more. What I dont get is how they can offer such an item in the bakery - and what the hey is in it that packs that many calories? I think cheesecake is even less caloric than the muffin!
There is plenty of garbage to be bought at Whole Foods.
Having said that, which part of that muffin is whole food exactly? Because as far as I can tell its all processed.
Yeah, Whole Foods doesn't mean they sell only whole foods (and a muffin obviously is processed).
WF also sells a whole variety of stuff, including B&J's vegan ice cream, which you'd better believe is high cal.
Also, at my store, they sell Jeni's, which is not in my usual grocery.
They sell tons of high cal prepared foods, and some excellent cheese options, and -- again in my store -- a decent variety of wine and beer. Not sure why someone would think that something from WF would be low cal (or a "whole food").
They also have a really good selection of fruits and veg in my local store, and plenty of other things I like, I enjoy shopping there and am not slamming them for having a wide variety of foods like any other decent grocery.
I love my WF for their quality of fruits and veggies (organic or not), seafood and fantastic grass fed / organic meat. This is "whole food".
Any "junky" stuff can be had MUCH much cheaper elsewhere.
Valid point. If you are going to go to a place like Whole Foods not sure why you'd go there to buy a muffin.
They did used to have baked goods and hot bar items that were marked to indicate that they were free of oil, refined sugar, and salt. I wish I could remember more about the line, I just remember the labels were pink and they had this vegan, No Oil Banana Date Muffin that I absolutely loved. I'm certain it wasn't particularly low calorie either, but I had no issue maintaining while eating one several times a week for dessert! It was on my way home from work and I guestimated 300 calories for it.
Okay fair enough I mean if I found Whole Foods made an extremely tasty muffin then I might go to Whole Foods to buy a muffin. Point was more centered around the concept that one goes to whole foods to buy "healthy" foods and that "healthy" foods don't have a lot of calories. A concept I don't really agree with.2 -
JeromeBarry1 wrote: »Was that muffin about half the size of your head? Your math indicates that the thing should have weighed about 200 grams, which is roughly 7 ounces. Since a slice of white bread is a serving for about 1 ounce, the muffin had the calories of a tower of bread 7 slices high. Wow. They should give a prize to people who get the 'whole' thing in their mouth.
Back when I did Weight Watchers in the early 00s, points had a bit more relation to calories (fiber and fat skewed things, but in general, if you assumed 50 calories=1 point, you could ballpark). At that time, they told us that muffins averaged about 100 calories per ounce. I believe bread is usually around 80/oz, exception existing, of course.0 -
Aaron_K123 wrote: »lemurcat12 wrote: »MyrnaSolganick wrote: »Found out a muffin Iiked from Whole Food bakery - a vegan chocolate chip muffin - has - are we ready? 780 calories. I was stunned. that is more than half my daily calories. That means a quarter of the muffin - which is not much - packs 195 calories. I wont be eating that muffin any more. What I dont get is how they can offer such an item in the bakery - and what the hey is in it that packs that many calories? I think cheesecake is even less caloric than the muffin!
There is plenty of garbage to be bought at Whole Foods.
Having said that, which part of that muffin is whole food exactly? Because as far as I can tell its all processed.
Yeah, Whole Foods doesn't mean they sell only whole foods (and a muffin obviously is processed).
WF also sells a whole variety of stuff, including B&J's vegan ice cream, which you'd better believe is high cal.
Also, at my store, they sell Jeni's, which is not in my usual grocery.
They sell tons of high cal prepared foods, and some excellent cheese options, and -- again in my store -- a decent variety of wine and beer. Not sure why someone would think that something from WF would be low cal (or a "whole food").
They also have a really good selection of fruits and veg in my local store, and plenty of other things I like, I enjoy shopping there and am not slamming them for having a wide variety of foods like any other decent grocery.
I love my WF for their quality of fruits and veggies (organic or not), seafood and fantastic grass fed / organic meat. This is "whole food".
Any "junky" stuff can be had MUCH much cheaper elsewhere.
Valid point. If you are going to go to a place like Whole Foods not sure why you'd go there to buy a muffin.
Because their baked goods are delicious. (And sadly, loaded with calories, which is why it's a once every month treat.)
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janejellyroll wrote: »Stinaseward wrote: »Isn’t it a bummer? On the bright side, you probably avoided genetically modified ingredients that your body may not know how to metabolize.
Come on, let's just go into the weekend in a good way. We don't have to do this.
You're right, Friday is for mean people threads, not for GMO bashing and woo! Oh wait, every day is for woo!13 -
collectingblues wrote: »Aaron_K123 wrote: »lemurcat12 wrote: »MyrnaSolganick wrote: »Found out a muffin Iiked from Whole Food bakery - a vegan chocolate chip muffin - has - are we ready? 780 calories. I was stunned. that is more than half my daily calories. That means a quarter of the muffin - which is not much - packs 195 calories. I wont be eating that muffin any more. What I dont get is how they can offer such an item in the bakery - and what the hey is in it that packs that many calories? I think cheesecake is even less caloric than the muffin!
There is plenty of garbage to be bought at Whole Foods.
Having said that, which part of that muffin is whole food exactly? Because as far as I can tell its all processed.
Yeah, Whole Foods doesn't mean they sell only whole foods (and a muffin obviously is processed).
WF also sells a whole variety of stuff, including B&J's vegan ice cream, which you'd better believe is high cal.
Also, at my store, they sell Jeni's, which is not in my usual grocery.
They sell tons of high cal prepared foods, and some excellent cheese options, and -- again in my store -- a decent variety of wine and beer. Not sure why someone would think that something from WF would be low cal (or a "whole food").
They also have a really good selection of fruits and veg in my local store, and plenty of other things I like, I enjoy shopping there and am not slamming them for having a wide variety of foods like any other decent grocery.
I love my WF for their quality of fruits and veggies (organic or not), seafood and fantastic grass fed / organic meat. This is "whole food".
Any "junky" stuff can be had MUCH much cheaper elsewhere.
Valid point. If you are going to go to a place like Whole Foods not sure why you'd go there to buy a muffin.
Because their baked goods are delicious. (And sadly, loaded with calories, which is why it's a once every month treat.)
I personally have never had anything from the Whole Foods bakery that wasn't delicious. And my husband says the non-vegan stuff is really good too.2
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