Costco Muffins....

just thought i'd throw this out there...

a costco muffin ranges in calories from 640-700 calories... OH MY GOD. 

No surprise there, they are huge!

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Only 640-700 calories?

I was always under the assumption that omnomnoming on one of those badboys would set you back at least 1000 calories.

I'm sue they sell them with 4 or 6 per package.

Ba-dunk adunk.

And they are on sale!

I'm sure they sell them with 4 or 6 per package.

Ba-dunk adunk.

And they are on sale!

omg those muffins look sooo good though. but yeah i would expect them to be more

i haven't had one of those muffins in years.  but yesturday at school i saw someone eat TWO of them so i decided to look it up.

ya i guess you would expect them to set you back closer to 1000....but imagine if you put butter on one. gross.

Mmmm, I used to love those things...

But I found an alternative!!! I make these for my little sister because she was truly addicted to those things, and since she works there, would always have a pack kicking around her place. Will power wasn't something that my family practiced growing up.

I bought the Chocolate Chocolate Chip muffin mix in a bag and I use diet coke, they taste almost exactly the same, and of course they are much smaller, but it works out that one of them is 140 cals and 4.5g fat. Not great, but much better than 700 cals!!! So now, when I make these for my husband and kids, I send a half dozen her way.

Original Post by penhook:

I'm sure they sell them with 4 or 6 per package.

Ba-dunk adunk.

And they are on sale!

 Try 12 per package!

I used to eat the chocolate ones with a fork.

EVIL Costco muffins! Those are sooooo good, haha. We were just at Costco last night and I was eyeing them. The chocolate ones are yummy. They also used to have chocolate chip/cranberry ones with a crumb topping around the holidays that were absolutely sinful. 

I can't eat a whole one in one sitting anyway, so I guess a half a chocolate muffin wouldn't be TOO bad...350 cals....? Yikes, haha :)

They are so delicious but because of the contents I can't eat them more than once a month!

It makes me very sad when one of my little brothers or sisters can eat an entire one for breakfast and they haven't even hit puberty yet.

Those are soooooo good!  I love the blueberry ones, but yeah, I would guess they are crazy in cals.  They are soooo huge.  I used to cute them in half and eat half, but they aren't really satisfying to me.  I hate going to costco because everything is giant sized...

The chocolate ones are good, but the apple cinnamon ones are even better!  My mom used to buy them, cut them in thirds and freeze them.  We would pull out  third (or 2/3 if we were feeling greedy) and have that as part of breakfast.  Oh man, now I want a muffin with a nice tall glass of milk!

Oh I use to buy the big otis spunkmeyer muffins at sams club. I loved the banana nut and chocolate chip...they were about 500 calories for the whole muffin. I can't bring myself to eat them anymore cause i would probably feel awful.... and I can think of 2 desserts i could make to equal that.  

Ya know what I like even more than the muffins... the danish!!! Six per package at 500 calories and 28 grams of fat each... and they are smaller than the muffins so I have to have 1.5 or two!!!! ahhhh!!!! It is so hard to walk by those danishes.... apricot filled, raspberry filled, cheese... man I want one now!!

Its funny that Costco sells suce HUGE portions.. then they sell a discounted 24 hour gym memebership!! lol...