Calories ‘when prepared as directed’

Sounds correct assuming they're tiny wraps and/or tiny servings of filling. Large tortillas are usually 180-200 calories alone.

Argh, I hate meal kits with such unclear calorie information! Here in the Netherlands I bought a meal kit consisting of rice, marinade and sauce (for something somewhat-asian) for old-times sake and wrote an unbelievable 9 emails to Knorr customer service to try and find out how many calories per 100 grams were in the three bags each. They just thought my question was strange. I was just curious. And, well, I don't drown my curry in sauce normally. Yeah, the food was not nice, btw.

Also, supermarkets here sell meal kids consisting of the right amount of vegetables and spices, and where applicable fresh herbs, pulses, wraps, coconut milk or other things, and you just add your protein of choice. Here also the calories is per 100gr/serving when prepared as directed. So I weighted all ingredients, looked up calories, 2 random chicken breasts as instructed, and found out that the wet spice mix accounted for a remainder of 1gr carbs, 20gr fat, 4 gr protein, AND 5kcal. Cue email to customer service, who did not get the issue at all. Ok, it's moot as Dutch spice mixes tend to taste of Maggie and not much else. So I spice everything myself. But still...

I'd say that's the calories for 2 tortillas (pack of 8, serves 4), a quarter of the salsa and some of the barbeque whatever (seasoning presumably, as that's mentioned in the StirFry instructions) sprinkled on your meat and/or veg. It says 'this product provides...' so that refers to what's in the package, cooked or served as per the instructions. You'll need to account for chicken and veg separately.

I made couscous from a mix the other night. Three servings per box. It called for two tablespoons of olive oil, however “as prepared” only increased 30 calories per serving.

Um.... that math don’t fly.

hmmm.... I just run into an interesting one that made me go "hmmm".

Excitement: baby can (tin for England/Australia/Nz) of tuna in OIL for only 120Cal. Very filling too the first time I had it for snacks when I was out of the house

The let down: well after buying a couple of cans (tins) for home, I am checking my THIRD can more carefully. So it is 120 Cal for 65g, DRAINED. And the can is supposed to have 85g net. So about 20g of oil and, hopefully some, tuna water... or more than likely just oil... to the tune of a good 180 extra "hidden" cals! No wonder it was nice and filling!

BUT it doesn't stop giving there!

Net content weight of the one can I opened and weighted at home... 110g! 110. Not 85!

I am waiting for a few weeks before opening the third can and actually figuring out how much "accidental" oil I've consumed!

The lesson: usually when something is much more filling than expected... there is a reason for that!