Counting calories without a package for Sausage Rolls

Okay I count my calories but, take today I had morning tea with a work group.  Sausage rolls, sandwiches etc.  I looked at the sausgage roll wishful thinking um if I were to have one - how many calories are in those things?  It was like 8 cm long - looked and smelt devine - my mouth started to water!

If you don't have the package or brand how do you work it out - do people just take a guess like 300 calories per sauage roll.  200 per sandwich? 

Ps:  I didn't eat one - I had the sandwich although I did drool slightly at the thought!

Just do a food search for sausage  or links or something.  I did one here.  Then just scroll around or narrow the search until you find something similar and just use that to approximate.

 

and then add 100. we always underestimate.

You'll get better at it as you go. 

Ususally for that kind of thing I think of a piece of bread as being about 100 calories, so if it's an english muffin/biscuit kind of sandwich, I figure about 150-200 calories just for the bread.  I try to overestimate.  Then if there's egg or cheese, I add another 100 calories.  Then about 100-150 for the sausage.  Those things aren't that good for you and usually high in calories, so I would imagine it was probably around 450 for the sandwich.  So, you were better off not eating it anyway!

ETA -- just realized that I TOTALLY misunderstood your original question.  Thought we were talking about a sausage sandwich.... oh well.

Ok -- just look up sausage roll on the food browser -- you should find something similar (I found several British companies) -- you would just have to gauge it well -- some of these are obviously for the small slices, not a whole roll

I agree with what the others have said. Scout around for something that approximates it or cobble together a number of items that it's made of to get a rough estimate. Even if you DID have the package, the numbers can't ever be entirely accurate. Nothing about calorie counting can be pin-point accurate. I mean, just think how many calories you must have burned just freaking out over that sausage roll.

 

what I'm getting at, is that one sausage roll is not going to break your diet or make you fat, it's trends over a longer time period that count. I think you were right not to eat it (it's not exactly the most nutritous parcel of fat you could eat) but it's not wroth obsessing about the calories in it if you had. Obsess only about the calories you eat regularly.

I don't know how long you've been logging your calories but over time you do develop a bit of an instinct about calorie contents of foods based on what you know about them (ingredients, cooking method, portion size, horror/desire grade when offered one on a particularly stressful diet day).