checking nutrition facts off a company's website..
05-17-09, 04:25 PM
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checking nutrition facts off a company's website..
So I am keeping a Diet/Fitness journal I picked up @ borders, and I have to say that this is 100 times easier than using Diet Analysis + or Fit Day online.
Anyways, I am planning for dinner to eat at a place called McAlister's Deli. Some of you may know the place. I love their nacho basket, which is pretty much just chips and queso.
Anyways, on their website the facts are:
Serving size: 4oz
calories: 433kcal
fat: 25g
carbs: 42g
protein: 15g
Anyways, how on earth is a whole basket of chips and queso only 433 calories? The chips alone they give are plentiful and the queso is pretty loaded in the cups. Is there any chance that these people only calculated the queso dip opposed to the chips? Odds are one of yall reading this may have ordered this before, but it seems fishy. I would except at least 650-700 calories.
Anyways, I am planning for dinner to eat at a place called McAlister's Deli. Some of you may know the place. I love their nacho basket, which is pretty much just chips and queso.
Anyways, on their website the facts are:
Serving size: 4oz
calories: 433kcal
fat: 25g
carbs: 42g
protein: 15g
Anyways, how on earth is a whole basket of chips and queso only 433 calories? The chips alone they give are plentiful and the queso is pretty loaded in the cups. Is there any chance that these people only calculated the queso dip opposed to the chips? Odds are one of yall reading this may have ordered this before, but it seems fishy. I would except at least 650-700 calories.
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Yep, you've really got to watch those "serving sizes".
Ever had a look at a 575 ml bottle of coke (the standard size bottle you'd get out of a pop machine)? A "serving" is 250 ml. So first of all, who drinks only 250 ml of a 575 ml bottle of coke? And secondly, it's not easy to calculate the calories in that bottle of coke because 250 doesn't go into 575 nice and easily. I've watched people have a glance at their bottle of coke and say to someone, "This only has 120 calories in it ... that's not bad." .... but in reality that's 120 calories per 250 ml, or 276 calories in the bottle. Great for a long distance ride ... not so good if you're not exercising.
Bags of chips do the same thing ... only 270 calories .......... per 20 chips, not for the whole bag.
Does this McAlister's Deli place have the option of choosing the "small chips" or whatever instead of the 4 oz measurement?
Ever had a look at a 575 ml bottle of coke (the standard size bottle you'd get out of a pop machine)? A "serving" is 250 ml. So first of all, who drinks only 250 ml of a 575 ml bottle of coke? And secondly, it's not easy to calculate the calories in that bottle of coke because 250 doesn't go into 575 nice and easily. I've watched people have a glance at their bottle of coke and say to someone, "This only has 120 calories in it ... that's not bad." .... but in reality that's 120 calories per 250 ml, or 276 calories in the bottle. Great for a long distance ride ... not so good if you're not exercising.
Bags of chips do the same thing ... only 270 calories .......... per 20 chips, not for the whole bag.
Does this McAlister's Deli place have the option of choosing the "small chips" or whatever instead of the 4 oz measurement?
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05-18-09, 12:06 PM
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No it didn't. Unfortunately I failed to read the side note that said "Nachos are about 4 servings."
I about fell over cause that puts that basket at 1700 calories. Good god I ate only 900 calories before that meal and that set me up about 500 over my BMR, and there was no exercising today. Oh well, let be known that nacho baskets are no more!
I about fell over cause that puts that basket at 1700 calories. Good god I ate only 900 calories before that meal and that set me up about 500 over my BMR, and there was no exercising today. Oh well, let be known that nacho baskets are no more!
