How in the world is this 4000 calories
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I love carrot cake but it makes me think of cream cheese frosting, which reminds me of the time I was on vacation in Vegas and started the day with red velvet pancakes with cream cheese topping, and ended it with a slice of red velvet cake. Good times.4
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Noreenmarie1234 wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »
That’s the smell of my alarm clock! Okay, not really, but I live by a McDonald’s that opens about the time I have to get up for the gym. Most mornings in the summer, the smell of cooking bacon and pancakes wafts in right after my alarm goes off. It’s really not a bad way to start the day!
I now have an insane craving a mcdonalds mcgriddle thanks to this thread lol.
We’re always here to help!
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rheddmobile wrote: »janejellyroll wrote: »rheddmobile wrote: »Everyone is acting like the poor OP should have realized the cake had that many calories. It's a petite cake - their six inch bakery cakes are really more like five inches across - and it has more calories than TWENTY SEVEN Krispy Kreme donuts!
I'm not saying OP *should* have known that the cake had so many, but blaming someone else when you eat 3/4ths of a cake (even a 6' inch cake) seems like a displacement of responsibility.
We all have those experiences where we eat something and are surprised by the calorie count, but come on! This is cake, a famously calorie-dense food. And this one is apparently covered in cream cheese frosting.
She was told it was reduced calorie. An entire container of reduced calorie cream cheese is 245 calories.
Which would make me seriously question anyone who told me an entire cake covered in cream cheese (even if it was reduced fat) was only 400 calories. It's unfortunate that OP's mother made a mistake (which seems to be what it was). But there's an element of personal responsibility here too, I think.
It's cake. If you eat almost an entire cake, you're going to be getting a lot of calories.23 -
sunfastrose wrote: »collectingblues 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?
Definitely not. Their bakery section is a delicious delicious place with lots of fat and carbs.
Yes - the pictures above make me want to visit. Haven't been to a Whole Foods in years. But just to be fair you can buy fruit/vegetables/other foods with lower caloric density - just at very high prices.
Assuming you're not buying "fancy" produce, you can actually get some really good deals there.
Whole Foods has done a lot with their prices in the past 1-2 years, especially now that they're owned by Amazon.2 -
janejellyroll wrote: »rheddmobile wrote: »janejellyroll wrote: »rheddmobile wrote: »Everyone is acting like the poor OP should have realized the cake had that many calories. It's a petite cake - their six inch bakery cakes are really more like five inches across - and it has more calories than TWENTY SEVEN Krispy Kreme donuts!
I'm not saying OP *should* have known that the cake had so many, but blaming someone else when you eat 3/4ths of a cake (even a 6' inch cake) seems like a displacement of responsibility.
We all have those experiences where we eat something and are surprised by the calorie count, but come on! This is cake, a famously calorie-dense food. And this one is apparently covered in cream cheese frosting.
She was told it was reduced calorie. An entire container of reduced calorie cream cheese is 245 calories.
Which would make me seriously question anyone who told me an entire cake covered in cream cheese (even if it was reduced fat) was only 400 calories. It's unfortunate that OP's mother made a mistake (which seems to be what it was). But there's an element of personal responsibility here too, I think.
It's cake. If you eat almost an entire cake, you're going to be getting a lot of calories.
I believe this is what one would call the 'denial' stage of dieting, with a dash of anger
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janejellyroll wrote: »sunfastrose wrote: »collectingblues 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?
Definitely not. Their bakery section is a delicious delicious place with lots of fat and carbs.
Yes - the pictures above make me want to visit. Haven't been to a Whole Foods in years. But just to be fair you can buy fruit/vegetables/other foods with lower caloric density - just at very high prices.
Assuming you're not buying "fancy" produce, you can actually get some really good deals there.
Whole Foods has done a lot with their prices in the past 1-2 years, especially now that they're owned by Amazon.
Yup. For basic organic produce and grass-fed meats, they are *far* cheaper than my local chains.
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quiksylver296 wrote: »
take out he sausage patty and i could deff eat one of these (no pork please)
Whereas I want the pork, but can't stand the egg in it.
Wonder if I can get it without egg?1 -
Tacklewasher wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »
take out he sausage patty and i could deff eat one of these (no pork please)
Whereas I want the pork, but can't stand the egg in it.
Wonder if I can get it without egg?
You totally can. I can't stand processed McDonald's eggs, and used to routinely get a sausage, egg, and biscuit without the egg. Or an Egg McMuffin without the egg.0 -
Tacklewasher wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »
take out he sausage patty and i could deff eat one of these (no pork please)
Whereas I want the pork, but can't stand the egg in it.
Wonder if I can get it without egg?
Yes. They give me egg McWhatever without sliced/ground critter whenever I'm traveling with the friend who somehow must eat at Micky D's. If McMeatystuff Central will serve up without the meat, I'm sure they'll leave off the egg.
It'll confuse the new counterstaff, the makers may screw it up, don't even try to figure out ordering it via kiosk . . . but they'll do it. 6 -
janejellyroll wrote: »rheddmobile wrote: »janejellyroll wrote: »rheddmobile wrote: »Everyone is acting like the poor OP should have realized the cake had that many calories. It's a petite cake - their six inch bakery cakes are really more like five inches across - and it has more calories than TWENTY SEVEN Krispy Kreme donuts!
I'm not saying OP *should* have known that the cake had so many, but blaming someone else when you eat 3/4ths of a cake (even a 6' inch cake) seems like a displacement of responsibility.
We all have those experiences where we eat something and are surprised by the calorie count, but come on! This is cake, a famously calorie-dense food. And this one is apparently covered in cream cheese frosting.
She was told it was reduced calorie. An entire container of reduced calorie cream cheese is 245 calories.
Which would make me seriously question anyone who told me an entire cake covered in cream cheese (even if it was reduced fat) was only 400 calories. It's unfortunate that OP's mother made a mistake (which seems to be what it was). But there's an element of personal responsibility here too, I think.
It's cake. If you eat almost an entire cake, you're going to be getting a lot of calories.
I believe this is what one would call the 'denial' stage of dieting, with a dash of anger
We've all been there, mine just involved french fries!4 -
janejellyroll wrote: »janejellyroll wrote: »rheddmobile wrote: »janejellyroll wrote: »rheddmobile wrote: »Everyone is acting like the poor OP should have realized the cake had that many calories. It's a petite cake - their six inch bakery cakes are really more like five inches across - and it has more calories than TWENTY SEVEN Krispy Kreme donuts!
I'm not saying OP *should* have known that the cake had so many, but blaming someone else when you eat 3/4ths of a cake (even a 6' inch cake) seems like a displacement of responsibility.
We all have those experiences where we eat something and are surprised by the calorie count, but come on! This is cake, a famously calorie-dense food. And this one is apparently covered in cream cheese frosting.
She was told it was reduced calorie. An entire container of reduced calorie cream cheese is 245 calories.
Which would make me seriously question anyone who told me an entire cake covered in cream cheese (even if it was reduced fat) was only 400 calories. It's unfortunate that OP's mother made a mistake (which seems to be what it was). But there's an element of personal responsibility here too, I think.
It's cake. If you eat almost an entire cake, you're going to be getting a lot of calories.
I believe this is what one would call the 'denial' stage of dieting, with a dash of anger
We've all been there, mine just involved french fries!
Sigh, even the stray ones in the bottom of the bag count.
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Tacklewasher wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »
take out he sausage patty and i could deff eat one of these (no pork please)
Whereas I want the pork, but can't stand the egg in it.
Wonder if I can get it without egg?
Yes. They give me egg McWhatever without sliced/ground critter whenever I'm traveling with the friend who somehow must eat at Micky D's. If McMeatystuff Central will serve up without the meat, I'm sure they'll leave off the egg.
It'll confuse the new counterstaff, the makers may screw it up, don't even try to figure out ordering it via kiosk . . . but they'll do it.
I sometimes order a sausage mcmuffin. It's on their menu. I still tell them explicitly, no egg. I still check my bag before leaving the window and I still get egg about 1/4 of the time.
I just dislike eggs in general.4 -
Tacklewasher wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »
take out he sausage patty and i could deff eat one of these (no pork please)
Whereas I want the pork, but can't stand the egg in it.
Wonder if I can get it without egg?
sub round egg.
<sorry, hadn't seen your post about hating eggs in general. I though you only hated the non fresh cracked egg products only>
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collectingblues wrote: »You totally can. I can't stand processed McDonald's eggs, and used to routinely get a sausage, egg, and biscuit without the egg. Or an Egg McMuffin without the egg.
OMG! I have to rescue you.
"sub round egg" = fresh cracked egg.
Sausage McMuffin (the one that comes without the egg and is usually substantially less expensive) *SUB bacon* = egg mcmuffin without the egg and without paying for the egg you won't get.
Ann: Oatmeal is just normal oatmeal with diced apples. Vanilla cone is really not a bad little bargain -- they officially go for 230 Cal in Canada... most serves are 250 to 300. And an extra large coffee to dunk your cone in <and you probably only drink tea!!!>
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Tacklewasher wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »
take out he sausage patty and i could deff eat one of these (no pork please)
Whereas I want the pork, but can't stand the egg in it.
Wonder if I can get it without egg?
sub round egg.
No, that'll put you in keto. 7 -
Noreenmarie1234 wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »
That’s the smell of my alarm clock! Okay, not really, but I live by a McDonald’s that opens about the time I have to get up for the gym. Most mornings in the summer, the smell of cooking bacon and pancakes wafts in right after my alarm goes off. It’s really not a bad way to start the day!
I now have an insane craving a mcdonalds mcgriddle thanks to this thread lol.
Love these! There used to be a honey infused equivalent at Burger King...is that still around?2 -
Tacklewasher wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »
take out he sausage patty and i could deff eat one of these (no pork please)
Whereas I want the pork, but can't stand the egg in it.
Wonder if I can get it without egg?
Yes. They give me egg McWhatever without sliced/ground critter whenever I'm traveling with the friend who somehow must eat at Micky D's. If McMeatystuff Central will serve up without the meat, I'm sure they'll leave off the egg.
It'll confuse the new counterstaff, the makers may screw it up, don't even try to figure out ordering it via kiosk . . . but they'll do it.
On the rare occasion I eat McD's I always "special order". Extra pickles, hold the mayo or no cheese. Whatever. They make it fresh and you're guaranteed it hasn't been sitting in the holding tank for however long their protocol allows.
To OP and the cake discussion - be nice to your mom. She's the only one you've got and she won't be around forever. Those of us without mothers would seriously love to have a mom bring them home a cake and calories be damned. Only a naive piece of *kitten* (your words, not mine) would blame their mom for stuffing your own cake hole, so you got something right there.10 -
Why, why why do these threads always devolve into food porn? <wrings hands>11
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