The "HOLY MOLY IT HAS THAT MANY CALORIES" Thread

From Eat This Not That:
Worst Salad in America 2009
On the Border Grande Taco Salad with Taco Beef and Chipotle Honey Mustard
1,700 calories
124 g fat (37.5 g saturated)
2,620 mg sodium

The dismal dawn of the 1,700-calorie salad is upon us. With as much saturated fat as 37 strips of bacon and more calories than 11 Taco Bell Fresco beef Tacos, this abdomen expander earns a well-deserved spot on our list of the Worst Foods in America.

Eat This Instead!
House Salad with Fat-Free Mango Citrus Vinaigrette
255 calories
12 g fat (3.5 g saturated)
280 mg sodium

I have never been to Jason's Deli, but just looked up their potatoes. The Spud with Broccoli is 1467 calories, and the LIGHT version is still 789 calories!

Salads are the worst thing to have calories heaped on them disguised as "toppings". Applebees Oriental Chicken Salad...1340 calories!!!!

Almost anything while eating out makes my head spin but 1 triple chocolate cookie from Tim Hortons is 250-ish calories. Sad thing is, the cookies I iused tomake at home are the same! That shocked me too! Oh, and red robins whiskey river burger, without the fries is over 1100 cal. Yikes!!

Anything from Chili's. It's hard to find anything under 1000 calories on their menu. I used to love that restaurant, too.

Their Original Ribs are 2170 calories with all of the sides and the Shiner Bock BBQ Ribs are 2310 calories! Their burgers all bust the scales with anywhere from 1300 calories to 2300 calories. Cajun Pasta with Grilled Chicken is 1500 calories with 4130 mg of sodium! That's right, more than four thousand milligrams of sodium in one meal. Yikes!

potbelly's oatmeal chocochip cookie has like 550 and their SMALL shakes have 650!!

A DQ Blizzard is finally now in mini but still >400 cals! Plus it's still overpriced when you compare it to a McDonalds McFlurry. You are better off spending $1.25 for a skinny cow individual cup then there are no remaining tempting leftovers, it's 1/3 the price of DQ and 1/3 the cals!

EDIT: Dam, H2Ologist beat me to it on the DQ bashing!

After reading some of these posts, my only question is.....how can anyone ask how we can be overweight?????? It is unbelieveable how many calories are in "our favorite foods". One meal out equals three meals cooked at home calorie wise.
HOW UNFAIR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Large McDonald's Caramel Frappe

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680 calories.....*cries*

yeah...i freaked out at the calories at Olive Garden....my FAV!!!

THIS!! i used to LOVE eating there... mom wanted to go for her b-day and i looked it up online so that i would know ahead of time what i was ordering... OMG! i was shocked. i wasn't expecting EVERY dish to be over 1,000 cals. before bread and salad.

yeah, we went to a local crab shack instead.

Bertuccis individual sized cheese pizza. (no toppings - 4 slices, it fits on a dinner plate).

880 calories
34 grams of Fat, 10 saturated
1,360 mg of sodium

Oh, you want to have a slice of cheese cake for dessert?

940 calories
68 grams of fat, 39 saturated
660 mg of sodium

A DQ Blizzard is finally now in mini but still >400 cals! Plus it's still overpriced when you compare it to a McDonalds McFlurry. You are better off spending $1.25 for a skinny cow individual cup then there are no remaining tempting leftovers, it's 1/3 the price of DQ and 1/3 the cals!

EDIT: Dam, H2Ologist beat me to it on the DQ bashing!

Sorry, I almost DIED when I entered it into my dairy. No supper for me

The restaurant salad thing makes me mad all day long if I think about it.

I've been one who looks restaurant nutritional info up before I go there for years now, but so many people are duped into thinking they're making healthy choices and "being good" when they order a salad instead of a cheeseburger. Well, the joke is on them since most of the time, the cheeseburger is lower calories!

No wonder America is fat, right?

I always get sticker shock at the calories in the "low fat" or "lite" versions with reduced fat but really no calorie difference as they replaced fat with sugar.

Or you give up virtually no calories for a lot of flavor

Example:

1% milk vs 2% milk. Save 10 calories, get a product with much more processing as a result (1% milk is fortified with powdered milk which contains a tonne of oxidized cholesterol). Ill take the 10 calories, thanks.

Lower fat peanut butter often ends up pretty much the same, only you get more sugar.

Pointless substitution of fat with sugar in so many processed foods and baking.

slice of cheesecake at red robins = 1200cal!! yummy, but wow!!

After reading some of these posts, my only question is.....how can anyone ask how we can be overweight?????? It is unbelieveable how many calories are in "our favorite foods". One meal out equals three meals cooked at home calorie wise.
HOW UNFAIR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I was thinking the same thing!! & they wonder why America is soo fat! A lot of people eat out several times a week due to time restraints & have no idea how many Cal's per week they r packing away! I know I didn't!! When I started mfp & started realizing how many Cal's u should have in a day & how many were in certain foods I thought "man just counting my cals is gonna make me lose weight! Being that I'm only intaking about 1/3 as I used to!"