Well I know many people bake for themselves but to me, muffins are high calorie whether or not you make them yourself. I have made 'healthier' muffins which are lower calorie and healthier but still, they are generally I rather go without. I am glad that I don't like baking.
I looked at the mcdonalds information not to long ago and was SHOCKED at how many calories are in a big mac meal and if you super size it you are looking at 2000 calories YIKES
A very big place to eat around
where I live is Chipotle. A single
burrito, depending on what you
get on it, can be about 2,500
calories WITH 2,500-4,000mg of
sodium. You may as well just go
drink salt water.
My friends were shocked that I've
never tried Chipotle. And after reading
the nutrition info, I don't think I
ever will. It's ridiculous.
You can save a ridiculous amount of calories by getting your chipotle burrito in a bowl and getting it without sour cream or guacomole (those are extra cost anyway). The tortilla wrap contains way too many calories.
Chipotle is one of my favorite low calorie places to eat. I can get a pretty filling meal for 300-400 calories. I don't do burritos usually but if I do, I split them with my husband.
I'm curious Robin and now have to google "halavah".
Fitday lists an 8 oz bar at 1146 calories. This is one of my husbands favorite foods. He often brought it home and we'd polish off a MUCH larger bar in no time at all.
Wow, from what I've seen Halvah is honey and crushed sesame seeds infused with butter. Talk about a calorie bomb!! It does sound pretty tasty though, if I may say so.
This thing about things foods being packaged to look like single serving foods, but then having multiple servings in them, as in Matt's pizza example, is a HUGE PET PEEVE of mine. I always check it carefully, but it is totally misleading and not fair to consumers.
I have to say that I really don't enjoy restaurant food any more. Even when I order what I think will be the least calorific item on the menu, it's always somehow doused and doctored to be made high calorie-- grilled salmon is ALWAYS grilled salmon drowned in butter.
Weight watchers has some yummy muffins for 190 calories or less. The WHOLE muffin. I eat the blueberry kind occasionally.
It is amazing the way some company's label the calories. It should be for the total package or item. There are probably a lot of consumers that are eating more servings then they think. I like that coca-cola has started putting the total calories on a 20oz of soda. It is 240 for the bottle. I think more companies should follow their example.
I also think there needs to be more public awareness of how to read a nutrition label, and how to calculate the calories for people who have no health or nutrition knowledge.
Last edited by Asherdoodles87; 11-03-2010 at 07:03 PM.
I drive an SUV with two large cupholders in the cneter console. Nothign to bump into them or steal any space. And yet the MEDIUM soft drink from your average fst food restaurant won't fit unless they have the notched bottom. I'm only 24 and even I remember when a super size was the size of today's small. What's next? A horse trough?
Right now we're in the process of moving and were painting the house last night. My sister and brother in law went through the Jack in the Box drive thru and it was a perfect example of why America keeps getting fatter. "Do you want fries with that?" followed by "would you like a cheesecake to go with your meal?" and at the pay window a poster with a chocolate lava cake that said "If it fits in your bag it fits in your stomach"
I like Chipotle because you can get just what you want and choose how many calories you'd like your meal to be.
I do this at Moe's, but even then you have to be careful. I went the other day and the guy making my food put in two scoops of beans and two scoops of chicken even though I didn't ask for them. He probably thought he was being nice, but doubling those two items adds A LOT of calories to the meal.
Ruby Tuesday has some good choices. They have added a lot of vegetable based sides to their menu and list calories for a lot of the items.
I calculated once that a Cinabon with extra frosting and a 8 oz lass of whole milk was an entire days worth of weight watcher points. I think it worked out to 1200 or so calories. I could eat one just for snack. Most have gone out of business around here. I haven't had one in probably close to 10 years.
For all the complaining I do about the high cost of living, New York State now requires all chain restaurants to print calorie counts of the WHOLE ENTREE on their menus. None of this "ONLY 300 CALORIES PER SERVING!" BS on a 12-serving dinner plate with its own zip code.
At restaurants here in Japan I have to be careful not to go overboard, and whenever I go home to the US my head explodes at how rich restaurant food is and how colossally enormous the portions are. I am sick for days whenever I visit.
I say this constantly but man, am I worried about gaining back my losses when I move back.
In the past was food just as caloric but people were sensible enough to eat less? I don't think so. I think food manufacturers are designing foods with as much fat and calories as possible because this is what makes us addicted to them. High fat and extremely high calorie foods are addicting and that is what makes money. Its sad.
Actually, while there is some adding of fat and calories to make us addicted going on, a lot of it had to do with the sedentary lives modern people live. I've researched it before (but don't have links handy) and in 1800 the average Parisian was eating a little over 3,000 calories per day. The average pioneer/homesteader was eating between 5-6,000 calories per day. In the 1880's the average day laborer walked seven miles to work, then another seven back home. Children were often walking 2-3 mile to school each day than back again.
The chores, labor, and lack of mechanized transportation in the past meant that our bodies were used to consuming massive amounts of calories to support the massive amount of physical activity everyday life demanded. Our bodies are made to efficiently burn large amounts of calories, we just no longer move around enough for them to do it.
