What food has surprised you because of the calorie content?
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RaeBeeBaby wrote: »Crazy high per serving - whole milk yogurt, nuts, tortilla chips, any kind of sausage, wine
I agree with all of these save for wine. I think wine is actually a bargain calorie-wise. 600 calories per 750ml bottle? Yes please!
If you can stop with just one! :bigsmile: :blushing:6 -
I just mentioned this in another thread but for me when I first started out it was the number of calories in olive oil. I'd never really paid attention to the label before and thought I was being healthy by using it all the time lol.6
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I made a birthday cake for my daughters birthday a couple of days ago- our family favourite, decadent chocolate cake with chocolate icing.
Last night, I thought I’d have a piece for dessert, as I had some calories left. So I entered all the ingredients for the cake into the recipe builder in order to work out a calorie count for one piece. Around 450 calories!!! For one small piece!!!!
No thanks. I’ll have my Fibre One brownie, instead of completely blowing my calorie budget!
Finding out those calories completely cured my desire for a piece of cake!7 -
-Alcoholic beverages...wow. Had to cut those out!
-Salad dressing, I have to be really careful
-Any additive to cooking, from butter, oil, or anything you mix in to cook. I have to be really careful! es the cream soup may say it's 100 calories, but making it with milk added adds another 70 calories.
- Just generally how small of an amount you can eat of any processed food to stay within the serving size
Complicating matters for me is that many diet products now contain Sucralose to make them taste better, I'm violently allergic to it so I have to double if not triple check every label5 -
Another one I thought of is Muffins. I always thought muffins to be healthier than donuts, yet the donuts are half the calories you get from a muffin.7
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Beer. I never ever drink calories and never have, so when I started drink craft beer, it got depressing real quick.0
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I went to Kroger's and saw that an oversized cupcake was nearly 800 calories! What is it made out of, pure lard?!6
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I was really surprised how many calories mini meatballs have. I'm not even talking about the homemade, cooked in oil kind, just the frozen ones I buy for my kids. 6 have 200 calories and they are so tiny, you can eat 10 in seconds. For some reason I had this mindset that cheese, nuts and all meat products were diet foods because of all the low carb movement. You really have to be careful.1
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Leannep2201 wrote: »I made a birthday cake for my daughters birthday a couple of days ago- our family favourite, decadent chocolate cake with chocolate icing.
Last night, I thought I’d have a piece for dessert, as I had some calories left. So I entered all the ingredients for the cake into the recipe builder in order to work out a calorie count for one piece. Around 450 calories!!! For one small piece!!!!
No thanks. I’ll have my Fibre One brownie, instead of completely blowing my calorie budget!
Finding out those calories completely cured my desire for a piece of cake!
We ate at the Cheesecake Factory and I found out later that one slice had about 1,600 calories. Okay, yes it is cheesecake but still, my kids got two to share and they were big but 1,600 seems like an impossible number to have in a slice of cake.5 -
A 4 piece Dairy Queen chicken strip or steak finger basket has 1400 calories, not counting any drinks. I used to get one for dinner, sometimes once a week because it was on the way home. I had no idea what I was eating, I could only do that now if that was literally the only thing I ate for the day...
What's crazy is that they sell a 16 piece now and I just know not every one of those things goes home to a family of four...3 -
BoterhamMetPindakaas wrote: »Surprisingly high: those little tomatoes. 31 kcal per 100 gram! That's more than strawberries, and strawberries are fruit! Guess I'll Just eat strawberries from now on..
Umm, tomatoes are a fruit as well. Just sayin'11 -
Counted the calories last time I went Drinking. Drink nearly 3000 calories and ate an extra 2000 from the Fast food pizza on the way home, O dear.4
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I just checked Five Guys Large Fries. Only 1314 calories
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Bread. Bread has HOW MANY calories?! Well OK then, no more sandwiches for me... (well, except for the odd one to stave off the cravings).
Growing up, I wasn’t allowed things like banana or avocado because they were ‘fattening’. The first time I realised that having tuna mayo in an avocado half was actually significantly fewer calories than having it in a sandwich (especially one with buttered bread!) was a revelation. I blame Weight Watchers and similar companies.
As for low... meringue. And strawberries. After that revelation I poked about the dairy cabinet a bit, and thanks to vanilla Skyr I can now bring in a big bowl of Eton Mess at around 150 kcal
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High:
- Butter (I used to always have loads of butter on my bread, sometimes I now go without)
- Oils (just wow, this is the reason I bought measuring spoons)
- Pies (not a big surprise, just higher than I thought)
- Crisps (How can such a small amount of food be so high in calories)
- Bread (seriously, what is in this bread!)
Low:
- Crème fraîche (I've now started to add it to all sorts of "creamy" sauces)
- Berries (I always thought these were high in sugars, turns out I was wrong)
- Basic, plain vanilla ice cream (Because I can have two scoops of ice cream for under 100kcals)
- Rice and potatoes (I suppose I'd listen too much to those people who say that carbs are evil, I was pleasantly surprised at how sensible amounts of calories a serving was)2 -
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Triscuit crackers ; they aren't terribly high but I thought they were much lower.
Strawberries and blueberries are really low in calories.
Pie - yes, I should expect it to be high but not as high as it actually is. Some of the oversized slices you get eating out are over 1000.0 -
I was really angry about all the apple muffins I ate because I thought I was being healthy and on a diet (cos fruit) when I really wanted the chocolate ones. The calories were the same for both! I could have eaten the chocolate ones and still been in the same position weight wise!5
haha 
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