Does any one know the points for a croissant I went out for lunch today and I chose a croissant with lettuce and tomato and bacon no mayo or butter only plain because I thought that was the better choice than a tuns fish sandwich' but I can't find the points. Pleas help
One 1-3/4 oz., about 5 inches, crossiant is 5 POINTS. They have a whole lot of fat. Bacon is 1 POINT per slice. Tuna salad is 6 points for 1/2 cup so you probably came out close to the same.
Uh oh, I hate to be the bearer of bad news but croissants are loaded with fat.
According to the WW Complete Food Companion, 1 plain 5"long, 1 3/4 oz croissant is 5 points.
Some restaurants use the giant size ones for sandwiches so the points may be even higher for a sandwich sized one.
According to the T-Factor Fat Gram Counter book a medium croissant has a whopping 11.5 grams of fat. Yikes!
I say leave the croissants to the French, they seem to tolerate fat better than Americans.
Hopefully this didn't throw you over points, but if it did, not to worry. Look at it as a learning experience.
If you ever need the nutritional information for products that aren't packaged, try some of the web resources available, such as foodcount.com or cyberdiet.com. They have pretty extensive information, and you can use it to calculate the points on such items.
Many times restaurants will change up the bread on things if you ask them to - for instance, I don't like rye so will always ask for white or wheat instead. In this instance I would have asked for white bread instead of the croissant, because I know the fat grams in croissant is so high (that's why they're so darn good!!) A BLT on white is about 8 points, add some more for the croissant and you're looking at a fairly "expensive" lunch! But as someone else mentioned above, look at as a learning experience. Nobody's perfect. And honestly, one bad choice isn't going to kill you.
Was there a possibility that this restaurant had more than two possible choices? Both a tuna fish sandwich and a BLT on a croissant (even with holding the mayo) are pretty high point choices. If these are the two things that you desired to have so that they were the only two choices you considered, then you have to ask yourself: do I want to eat this or do I want to lose weight? What resultdo I want to achieve? If you care about making permanent changes in your lifestyle and your eating habits in order to lose weight safely and permanently, then you must learn beforehand that if you are going to a restaurant that only offers you two choices for lunch, then you had either better be willing to blow a lot of points, learn how to order off the menu, or go to another restaurant!
Some great advice that I learned: don't be bound by the combinations that are offered on the menu. It appears this restaurant had lettuce, tomatoes, and some tuna salad. You could have asked them to put exactly half a cup of tuna salad on a plate filled with lettuce and tomatoes and you would have spent less points and still been able to get something you wanted.
Great idea, Elizabeth! I never even think about ordering something that's not on the menu. And that kind of was. I'll have to keep that in mind next time I go somewhere with not-so-great choices.
Thanks everybody for all your great replies it was a learning experience I had no idea how many points there were I never hag a croissant before and they did have other choices Elisabeth but they were the lunch specials and that is another one of my problems I always look for the cheapest I have to work on that too but I am better I usually order wisely this was one time I wasn't really sure and I don't think I'll waste any more points on that again. It wasn't that great
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