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How in the world is this 4000 calories
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TavistockToad wrote: »TavistockToad wrote: »PlasticGains wrote: »My stupid mom finds out I'm on a diet and supposedly brings me a healthy cake fro. Whole foods and says its fruit cake and its 400 calories for the entire cake (its 6 inches) and so I being the naive piece of sht that I am ate almost 3/4 of it and heres the link
https://m.wholefoodsmarket.com/shop/NEW/3202/27925
How in the world is this small a** cake 4000 calories!!??! It wasnt even dense!! It was one of those airy cakes. How!?!?!?
you saw the cake and didn't think to check out the box to verify the 400 cals for a whole cake far too good to be true statement before you hoovered it up....?
riiiiiight.
Whos got time for that when there is cake and mom said its healthy lol
And she ate 3/4 of that rather large cake? Come on.
i think mom has a fantastically wicked sense of humour because there is nothing on that wholefoods website that suggests any of their cakes are 'healthy'. OPs mom just wants OP to be fat for EVER!!!!
Never going to whole foods ever11 -
PlasticGains wrote: »TavistockToad wrote: »PlasticGains wrote: »My stupid mom finds out I'm on a diet and supposedly brings me a healthy cake fro. Whole foods and says its fruit cake and its 400 calories for the entire cake (its 6 inches) and so I being the naive piece of sht that I am ate almost 3/4 of it and heres the link
https://m.wholefoodsmarket.com/shop/NEW/3202/27925
How in the world is this small a** cake 4000 calories!!??! It wasnt even dense!! It was one of those airy cakes. How!?!?!?
you saw the cake and didn't think to check out the box to verify the 400 cals for a whole cake far too good to be true statement before you hoovered it up....?
riiiiiight.
There was no box.. she just said it was from whole foods
so, question to all the american pals - is wholefoods known as a low calorie health shop...?? cos all i saw in the dessert section on that website was calorie after yummy calorie of fatness....?
not really understanding how anyone can actually legit think a whole cake covered in frosting is only 400 cals?19 -
PlasticGains wrote: »TavistockToad wrote: »TavistockToad wrote: »PlasticGains wrote: »My stupid mom finds out I'm on a diet and supposedly brings me a healthy cake fro. Whole foods and says its fruit cake and its 400 calories for the entire cake (its 6 inches) and so I being the naive piece of sht that I am ate almost 3/4 of it and heres the link
https://m.wholefoodsmarket.com/shop/NEW/3202/27925
How in the world is this small a** cake 4000 calories!!??! It wasnt even dense!! It was one of those airy cakes. How!?!?!?
you saw the cake and didn't think to check out the box to verify the 400 cals for a whole cake far too good to be true statement before you hoovered it up....?
riiiiiight.
Whos got time for that when there is cake and mom said its healthy lol
And she ate 3/4 of that rather large cake? Come on.
i think mom has a fantastically wicked sense of humour because there is nothing on that wholefoods website that suggests any of their cakes are 'healthy'. OPs mom just wants OP to be fat for EVER!!!!
Never going to whole foods ever
or just eat cake in moderation from now on?19 -
Average recipe of a sort of "healthy" cake made at home
1.eggs (at least 2 whole and 4 whites) - 143 + 200 = 343
2. at least 100 gms of sugar - 387 calories
3.Most cakes contain around 50-100 gms of butter ( 350-700 calories)
4. half cup milk (depending on whether it is full fat or skimmed or something else - 40-100 calories
5. self-rising flour (at least one cup) - around 600 calories.
6. dry fruits and preserved fruits and other addendum extra.
7. Icing/ Frosting (which is sugar loaded) - another 300 -900 calories (though most healthy cakes would not have icing/frosting)
8. Plus those roses on top (talking about cakes in general) have a lot of corn syrup etc. One flower itself could be 100-200 calories. Even the canned fruit has a lot of sugar syrup in it and canned fruit toppings and fillings can also massively drive up calories.
If you add all that up, that's already more than 3000 calories (without the dry fruit and other stuff added to it). And this is a recipe for a relatively healthier version of the cake. The problem is most of the manufacturers go crazy with unhealthy ingredients even in said "healthier products" Eg, many people bake cakes at home with 200 gms sugar or whole eggs or more butter and other stuff. The manufacturers use even more. Plus they use a lot of oil and fat, too. Therefore, it is very easy for the calories content to become higher.
Also, the recipe I mentioned above produces a cake between 1/2 kg and 1 kg. If your cake was heavier, it would naturally have more calories. The weight of the cake is another way to get an idea the calories.
As for the cake being airy, it doesn't matter if the cake is airy. Pumice can float on water but it is still a stone. Dense calories can be packed in the airiest of cakes. It is better to find a recipe, control the ingredients and bake it yourself. That way you will know exactly how many calories you are consuming.
This is exactly why, no matter what any website or person says, I still engage in portion control in addition to calorie counting. Mistakes happen. It is normal. But portion control decreases the magnitude of the mistakes and makes it easier to rectify them.
Rule of thumb no cake slice, pizza slice or burger is ever under 200 calories - never ever.11 -
TavistockToad wrote: »PlasticGains wrote: »TavistockToad wrote: »PlasticGains wrote: »My stupid mom finds out I'm on a diet and supposedly brings me a healthy cake fro. Whole foods and says its fruit cake and its 400 calories for the entire cake (its 6 inches) and so I being the naive piece of sht that I am ate almost 3/4 of it and heres the link
https://m.wholefoodsmarket.com/shop/NEW/3202/27925
How in the world is this small a** cake 4000 calories!!??! It wasnt even dense!! It was one of those airy cakes. How!?!?!?
you saw the cake and didn't think to check out the box to verify the 400 cals for a whole cake far too good to be true statement before you hoovered it up....?
riiiiiight.
There was no box.. she just said it was from whole foods
so, question to all the american pals - is wholefoods known as a low calorie health shop...?? cos all i saw in the dessert section on that website was calorie after yummy calorie of fatness....?
not really understanding how anyone can actually legit think a whole cake covered in frosting is only 400 cals?
No, not in the least. It is, however, known as Whole Wallet.26 -
TavistockToad wrote: »PlasticGains wrote: »TavistockToad wrote: »PlasticGains wrote: »My stupid mom finds out I'm on a diet and supposedly brings me a healthy cake fro. Whole foods and says its fruit cake and its 400 calories for the entire cake (its 6 inches) and so I being the naive piece of sht that I am ate almost 3/4 of it and heres the link
https://m.wholefoodsmarket.com/shop/NEW/3202/27925
How in the world is this small a** cake 4000 calories!!??! It wasnt even dense!! It was one of those airy cakes. How!?!?!?
you saw the cake and didn't think to check out the box to verify the 400 cals for a whole cake far too good to be true statement before you hoovered it up....?
riiiiiight.
There was no box.. she just said it was from whole foods
so, question to all the american pals - is wholefoods known as a low calorie health shop...?? cos all i saw in the dessert section on that website was calorie after yummy calorie of fatness....?
not really understanding how anyone can actually legit think a whole cake covered in frosting is only 400 cals?
it is known as being a super expensive "health food" store, LOL. I never go there.8 -
Don't worry about it, one day will only kill your progress if you let it extend to more days or let those 'one days' happen more often.
1 gram of fat is 9 calories. That's 1/10th of one tablespoon of mayonnaise.
Look at the bright side: now you know what to grab from the shelves of whole foods if you need portable survival zombie invasion food.11 -
A few pics from Whole Foods:
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Firstly, nobody forced you to eat the cake. That was your choice, so take responsibility for that instead of blaming your mother, who probably thought she was helping you by getting you a cake from a brand that markets itself as a "healthy" food store. A lot of people mistakenly equate 'healthy' with 'low calorie' or assume it must be good for you if it has 'natural' ingredients. Well, mascarpone, dried fruit, flour, fat and sugar are all natural ingredients, and all healthy in moderate proportions, which is why this cake is a multiple serving item and not meant to be overeaten in the way you did.
Secondly, it was up to you to do your own research about this product. Presumably it came in some kind of packaging which had a barcode, so you could've scanned or manually entered the nutritional values and weighed/logged it before you decided to eat it. You could've checked the Whole Foods website before deciding whether to eat it or not. You could've eaten less of it. You could've said "thanks, but no thanks" and passed it up. You did none of those things, so that's on you. Don't blame your mother for you not bothering to check. You're in control of what you eat, not her.
Thirdly, don't put yourself down. What you think of your mother is your business, but don't describe yourself in the negative. You made several mistakes, but what's done is done and you'll do different next time. Take this incident as part of the learning curve you're currently on.20 -
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TavistockToad wrote: »PlasticGains wrote: »TavistockToad wrote: »PlasticGains wrote: »My stupid mom finds out I'm on a diet and supposedly brings me a healthy cake fro. Whole foods and says its fruit cake and its 400 calories for the entire cake (its 6 inches) and so I being the naive piece of sht that I am ate almost 3/4 of it and heres the link
https://m.wholefoodsmarket.com/shop/NEW/3202/27925
How in the world is this small a** cake 4000 calories!!??! It wasnt even dense!! It was one of those airy cakes. How!?!?!?
you saw the cake and didn't think to check out the box to verify the 400 cals for a whole cake far too good to be true statement before you hoovered it up....?
riiiiiight.
There was no box.. she just said it was from whole foods
so, question to all the american pals - is wholefoods known as a low calorie health shop...?? cos all i saw in the dessert section on that website was calorie after yummy calorie of fatness....?
not really understanding how anyone can actually legit think a whole cake covered in frosting is only 400 cals?
No, not in the least. It is, however, known as Whole Wallet.
We call it Whole Paycheck.17 -
well...at least you didn't go for the Berry Chantille cake there...that one is over 1000/slice5
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Incidentally, when your mom said it was a healthy cake did she also suggest you eat ALL of it in one sitting?23
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Now I want cake, and this week's office snacks are Pop Tarts and Ding Dongs. Thankfully I have almost a full day's worth of calories to play with!5
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fitoverfortymom wrote: »TavistockToad wrote: »PlasticGains wrote: »TavistockToad wrote: »PlasticGains wrote: »My stupid mom finds out I'm on a diet and supposedly brings me a healthy cake fro. Whole foods and says its fruit cake and its 400 calories for the entire cake (its 6 inches) and so I being the naive piece of sht that I am ate almost 3/4 of it and heres the link
https://m.wholefoodsmarket.com/shop/NEW/3202/27925
How in the world is this small a** cake 4000 calories!!??! It wasnt even dense!! It was one of those airy cakes. How!?!?!?
you saw the cake and didn't think to check out the box to verify the 400 cals for a whole cake far too good to be true statement before you hoovered it up....?
riiiiiight.
There was no box.. she just said it was from whole foods
so, question to all the american pals - is wholefoods known as a low calorie health shop...?? cos all i saw in the dessert section on that website was calorie after yummy calorie of fatness....?
not really understanding how anyone can actually legit think a whole cake covered in frosting is only 400 cals?
No, not in the least. It is, however, known as Whole Wallet.
We call it Whole Paycheck.
Maybe that's what I was going for :laugh: I only go there for a specific brand of mirin I can't find anywhere else and lamb.6 -
TavistockToad wrote: »PlasticGains wrote: »TavistockToad wrote: »PlasticGains wrote: »My stupid mom finds out I'm on a diet and supposedly brings me a healthy cake fro. Whole foods and says its fruit cake and its 400 calories for the entire cake (its 6 inches) and so I being the naive piece of sht that I am ate almost 3/4 of it and heres the link
https://m.wholefoodsmarket.com/shop/NEW/3202/27925
How in the world is this small a** cake 4000 calories!!??! It wasnt even dense!! It was one of those airy cakes. How!?!?!?
you saw the cake and didn't think to check out the box to verify the 400 cals for a whole cake far too good to be true statement before you hoovered it up....?
riiiiiight.
There was no box.. she just said it was from whole foods
so, question to all the american pals - is wholefoods known as a low calorie health shop...?? cos all i saw in the dessert section on that website was calorie after yummy calorie of fatness....?
not really understanding how anyone can actually legit think a whole cake covered in frosting is only 400 cals?
No, Whole Foods isn't known for low calorie foods. Unfortunately, many Americans do assume that the foods there are somehow magically reduced calorie simply because they're "health foods."
Their bakery is full of delicious things that aren't reduced calorie in the least. It's more like a mid-tier luxury bakery.9 -
Your "stupid" mom? How old are you?
It's a cake, dude. Use common sense. Flour, butter, eggs, sugar, etc...eating almost a whole cake is never a "Healthy" idea. No matter where it came from.
I think you need to do a little research on what makes something "healthy".31 -
New_Heavens_Earth wrote: »Now I want cake, and this week's office snacks are Pop Tarts and Ding Dongs. Thankfully I have almost a full day's worth of calories to play with!
Make sure you read the package, first. Pop tarts come sealed in a package of two, so most people just assume that that's a serving. Nope, the calories are based on *one* Poptart.
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I think you need to forgive your Mom, and then forgive yourself. Just be strict with yourself for the rest of the week - put it in perspective of how many calories you will consume all week. Don't let a mistake derail your efforts.7
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OP, tell your 'stupid mom' to send me your cakes, instead. I will be thankful for them, and will appreciate the loving spirit in which they were given.35
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snickerscharlie wrote: »OP, tell your stupid mom to send me your cakes, instead. I will be thankful for it and appreciate the loving spirit in which it was given.
I want cake, too.8 -
You can't have your cake and...
...oh, nevermind. Party at my house!
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TavistockToad wrote: »PlasticGains wrote: »TavistockToad wrote: »PlasticGains wrote: »My stupid mom finds out I'm on a diet and supposedly brings me a healthy cake fro. Whole foods and says its fruit cake and its 400 calories for the entire cake (its 6 inches) and so I being the naive piece of sht that I am ate almost 3/4 of it and heres the link
https://m.wholefoodsmarket.com/shop/NEW/3202/27925
How in the world is this small a** cake 4000 calories!!??! It wasnt even dense!! It was one of those airy cakes. How!?!?!?
you saw the cake and didn't think to check out the box to verify the 400 cals for a whole cake far too good to be true statement before you hoovered it up....?
riiiiiight.
There was no box.. she just said it was from whole foods
so, question to all the american pals - is wholefoods known as a low calorie health shop...?? cos all i saw in the dessert section on that website was calorie after yummy calorie of fatness....?
not really understanding how anyone can actually legit think a whole cake covered in frosting is only 400 cals?
Technically, Whole Foods does not call itself a health food store, but rather a natural food store. There is actually a difference. Also, I don't personally think it's that much more expensive to shop there unless you're buying specialty items, when compared to other US chains around here. I shop largely at Trader Joe's, which is definitely cheaper than other chains here.
I can say that nearly every slice of cake I've seen from Whole Foods is between 600 and 1000 calories. Natural does not mean low calorie.7 -
OMG that baby is going to be blowing green icing out of his nose for days! :laugh:7
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you ate the cake. you are an adult. log it, move on. be nice to your mother15
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It is interesting in this world how people like to blame others for something they should be taking responsibility for.. you are lucky you have a mother that loves you and wanted you to feel better.. please go and thank her today for the token of love she gave you.. and I am sure I speak for many mothers on here that ask for so little yet deserve so much
hope your enjoyed your cake.. it is a cake, it is not supposed to be a drama filled nightmare... so you ate the cake.. tomorrow you will make other decisions that will make you healthy and happy but please.. from one stranger to another.. give your Mom a hug and say thank you32
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