Guess the Calories
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Oh and this is a game that would be very hard to get right based on pictures. However in real life situations this is a worthy skill to develop. It is not about getting it 100 percent right but ballparking it or identifying when something is not right. Have you ever gotten a restaurant salad with so much cheese and other caloric toppings that it had to be easily twice the posted calories? I have. In fact I have noticed since covid that some restaurants are being extra generous and some are being extra thrifty with portions and ingredients. Now you can easily turn a blind eye if you rarely eat out but if, like me, you sometimes have so much going on that you end up eating out 3 or 4 times in a week it is worth trying to get it closer.1
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Oh and this is a game that would be very hard to get right based on pictures. However in real life situations this is a worthy skill to develop. It is not about getting it 100 percent right but ballparking it or identifying when something is not right. Have you ever gotten a restaurant salad with so much cheese and other caloric toppings that it had to be easily twice the posted calories? I have. In fact I have noticed since covid that some restaurants are being extra generous and some are being extra thrifty with portions and ingredients. Now you can easily turn a blind eye if you rarely eat out but if, like me, you sometimes have so much going on that you end up eating out 3 or 4 times in a week it is worth trying to get it closer.
I've noticed that. I eat out a lot, too, and heavily customize my food choices, but I do wonder how accurate the food maker is with my requests. For instance, yesterday, I got a chicken burrito supreme at Taco Bell during my walk, and asked for easy on the beans, cheese, and red sauce, which should have put the calorie count at 330 for the burrito. But I couldn't help but wonder how accurate they were. They aren't weight portions back there, just using scoops to approximate a serving, so who knows? IT was probably more calories than that 330 I counted at any rate!
So if I post a picture of my alfredo sauce, so I disclose the ingredients beforehand and let folks guess based on that, or do it like a restaurant and make them just guess from the finished product? lol2 -
Salmon fettuccini alfredo with spinach noodles and fresh zucchini on the side
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4500
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very green and pretty!
no food weight?
real Alfredo or "cut calorie" Alfredo? Salmon origin? (Atlantic farmed, canned pink, canned red/sockeye)?1 -
very green and pretty!
no food weight?
real Alfredo or "cut calorie" Alfredo? Salmon origin? (Atlantic farmed, canned pink, canned red/sockeye)?
56g of spinach noodles, 1 whole can of canned pink salmon, and 8g of homemade "lightened" version alfredo sauce (and really, I don't miss heavy whipping cream at all!)0 -
oh, and I don't bother trying to calculate the amount of trivial fat from the cooking spray used to saute the zucchini, so that's not part of the calculation.
And the whole thing tasted way, way better than it looked! lol
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743 calories0
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Can of pink salmon 310
57g fresh noodles uncooked 210 to 230
zucchini with some provision for oil 50
I would think that Alfredo was more; but was stated as 8g.
Max Cal for that would be 72. On face value it is lightened, so I'll call it 50.
I don't see cheese sprinkled on top
So, eating out I would go with 700+ to account for hidden oil or butter in the sauce and noodles. But, thinking as to who cooked it and the above info especially the only 8g for the sauce... 600 to 650.
My vote: 630
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What type of tiny can do you guys get down there?!!??!?!?!?!
213g per can
So 3.8727 * 55 per can (I've weighed them before and they are usually within 5 grams of 213. This includes content and liquid, so the calories are not for drained. I used 310 because I actually have a sockeye can on hand and they are 80 Cal instead of the 70 Cal per 55g for the pink!)
213g is a 7.5oz can. 55g is a tiny bit under 2oz.
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I'm using a small can - the size of a typical tuna can
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You talking 'bout the half a bite little baby 85g tuna cans with some sort of flavouring for like 85 to 120 Cal more or less for most? (I don't buy the ones that are higher in Cal)
DEY'RE SOOOO CUTE!!!!
I sometimes stock up on the flavoured tuna ones when they're on sale and use them for snax!0 -
bmeadows380 wrote: »very green and pretty!
no food weight?
real Alfredo or "cut calorie" Alfredo? Salmon origin? (Atlantic farmed, canned pink, canned red/sockeye)?
56g of spinach noodles, 1 whole can of canned pink salmon, and 8g of homemade "lightened" version alfredo sauce (and really, I don't miss heavy whipping cream at all!)
Who says a "whole can" when they mean one of those tiny deals?
Sneaky.1 -
bmeadows380 wrote: »very green and pretty!
no food weight?
real Alfredo or "cut calorie" Alfredo? Salmon origin? (Atlantic farmed, canned pink, canned red/sockeye)?
56g of spinach noodles, 1 whole can of canned pink salmon, and 8g of homemade "lightened" version alfredo sauce (and really, I don't miss heavy whipping cream at all!)
Who says a "whole can" when they mean one of those tiny deals?
Sneaky.
*laughs* but it WAS a whole can! No body said it had to be a certain size can! lol
I drained it off completely and gave the liquid to my cat, hence some of the reason for the lower numbers
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I wish I likes salmon...I have tried but I don’t....nor avocado....green slime!1
