Cinema popcorns!

erikatoth
erikatoth Posts: 26 Member
in Food and Nutrition
Finally some cinemas, like cineworld, started publicising the nutritional info on their cinema food.

IT is staggering, what is in that large popocorn! Vue cinemas - 1900 calories in one large salty. 1900 calories, more than a large margarita pizza! More than three full blown chocolate cakes!

So there were days a few years ago, when we went to see two movies, i ate two large popcorns by myself, and I was actually proud that i had nothing all day but two popcorns. Jesus christ, I had 4000 calories those days. No wonder!!

Advice to everyone, please try and check out whats in your popcorn and cinema food because you may just get the shock of your life that can ruin your diet. Don't let them! Bring your own little bag of pret popcorn or something, i know that's what I will do... !

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  • PShep17
    PShep17 Posts: 221 Member
    Thats mental! Sounds like I'll be taking pizza and chocolate cake to the cinema next time then :)
  • alicia_louise29
    alicia_louise29 Posts: 101
    Me and my partner go cineworld most wednesdays and share a large sweet popcorn. I can only ever eat about 1/4 of it but even that much is too much cals to spend on popcorn which isn't even that satisfying. Popcorn for me is just something to eat to watch the movie not because I'm hungry which makes it 10x worse :(
  • leanby2013
    leanby2013 Posts: 137
    I think as long as you're not going every day its ok, who wants to count cals on a day out? not me lol

    I went to watch snow white and the huntsman on saturday and i had a large popcorn with a ben & jerrys sundae, the next day i felt fine and weighed the same. AND it was fun :)
  • omma_to_3
    omma_to_3 Posts: 3,265 Member
    I really hope that was WITH butter LOL. I'm not sure how you'd pack that many calories into the popcorn without the butter topping. I've been making air popped popcorn lately and love it. I can have an entire giant bowl for not many calories.
  • stfuriada
    stfuriada Posts: 445 Member
    I've stopped snacking at cinemas. It's saved me TONS of money, which is a plus in addition to the calories saved from not having nachos.
  • SunKissed1989
    SunKissed1989 Posts: 1,314 Member
    I usually go for the small sweet popcorn when I go to the cinema - the size is just right to hold and to consume, esp. at cineworld. No idea about their nutritional content though, so I've started taking a small bag of nuts and raisins or a graze.com snack to get me through a film...oh, and a bottle of water :smile:

    Where can you find the nutritional info for different cinemas?
  • BecomingElle
    BecomingElle Posts: 112 Member
    Is it fairly similar between cinemas?

    I live in Australia and I can't find the statistics anywhere online and I know it's not on the back of the boxes :grumble:
  • Excellentia
    Excellentia Posts: 182
    So you're telling me they inflate EVERYTHING?! :noway: Prices AND food. WHAT'S NEXT??? :laugh:

    Seriously though, great advice. I generally stay away from the cinema food because it's so bad for my wallet, but I'm glad to know people can make educated choices about what they eat.
  • erikatoth
    erikatoth Posts: 26 Member
    I usually go for the small sweet popcorn when I go to the cinema - the size is just right to hold and to consume, esp. at cineworld. No idea about their nutritional content though, so I've started taking a small bag of nuts and raisins or a graze.com snack to get me through a film...oh, and a bottle of water :smile:

    Where can you find the nutritional info for different cinemas?

    Lorraine, some cinemas have it on their website, for example, cineworld ones are already in the database here. Cineworld is one of the best actuallz - small salty popcorn = around 400 (acceptable for me as its yummy), versus vue small which is around 1000.
  • MtnKat
    MtnKat Posts: 714
    Holy friholy!

    AND you paid an arm and a leg for it too!

    I refuse to eat movie theater popcorn because I didn't trust the calories....good thing, too. lol
  • IcassI
    IcassI Posts: 248 Member
    It's crazy! Here the AMC theatres post the calories and I couldn't believe how many calories were in the nachos. I used to ALWAYS get the nachos. If I have to have something I now get the kids popcorn, unsweetened tea as my drink and it comes with 100 calorie gummy bears. Not great, but not terrible for you either. The other option is this healthy pack they have with pop chips, dried fruit and something else with a bottle of water.

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