CC accurate for vegetables?

I'm so confused and verging on crazy person panic because I just ate a HUGE dinner. I had a cup of cubed eggplant, a cup of cubed zucchini, half a cup of mushrooms, a big slice of onion, and a serving of spaghetti sauce all dumped on top of a big slice of polenta. I added it up on CC and it told me all of this was only 205 calories??? I had to add a helping of pork to bring the calorie total up and I'm still way under my calories for the day. I'm SO STUFFED I had to push back working out until I've digested for a bit. Can this really be accurate or am I going to gain a billion lbs?

Actually I've found CalorieCount tends to overestimate the calories in most vegetables. Most other sources list carrots as 25 cals/100g, here it's a whopping 42 calories! If I get a second opinion on my caloric intake (about 80% of which is from vegetables) from another calorie counter, it's on average 200 calories less. So when using CC and logging veggies I'd say there's a generous buffer between the number CC gives you and how much energy you actually consumed.

If you're concerned about excess calories from that yummy, healthy-sounding dinner, I bet you're gonna also burn a lot of calories just digesting all that. None of the ingredients are calorically dense so you're probably only stuffed from the volume of food, not the energy content. 

vegetables are very filling and mostly low calorie. in my experience, most of the veggies i eat have the correct calorie counts on this site.

The whole reason why people trying to lose weight are advised to 'eat more fruit and vegetables' is that they are very low in calories but high in bulk.  Especially true for vegetables. 

Original Post by gi-jane:

The whole reason why people trying to lose weight are advised to 'eat more fruit and vegetables' is that they are very low in calories but high in bulk.  Especially true for vegetables. 

 You can eat as many vegetables as you want! Be more careful with fruit though because of the sugar content.

I find I have to refresh the page when I add new items to my log. Sometimes things are missing. Of course, it all depends on how much polenta and how much spaghetti sauce you ate. That's where the calories are. By my calculations just a serving of each with no vegetables would be 200 calories.

that's what happens when you eat vegetables! I had steamed rice w/ a ton of eggplant curry for dinner today. 2 cups of cubed eggplant is a lot of food. i am stuffed and it was like 250 calories.