You have GOT to be kidding me
Today I kept thinking how I was doing something SO good for myself. Instead of eating one of the sandwiches (vegetable and hummus) for lunch that I often get (which granted, aren't bad on multigrain) or the falafel and hummus wrap (the content is good, but it's put in a 12 inch flour tortilla) or a processed veggie burger or something else processed I went to the salad bar. I took a 1 cup bowl and I filled it with small amounts of kidney beans, soybeans, chickpeas, tofu, peas, tomato, and cucumber. It was FOOD - really fresh delicious food! I got myself a container of balsamic vinaigrette (25 cals for two tablespoons but I used MUCH less than that). I ate it and I felt full and satisfied. I felt good about my food choices and excitedly went to log it into CC.
What do I find but 600 calories????? Granted, I estimated the amounts of everything - but you have GOT to be kidding me!! I had mentally put it at 300 just because it seemed like that much. Geez, it was such a high calorie lunch!! I was really disappointed to find so many good foods being so high in cals.
maybe you could fill half of your salad bowl with really low-cal vegetables, and then add some of that protein on top?
that sucks about the 600 calories though :(
No way! Beans and tofu shouldn't be more than 250 calories in a cup. Are you sure you entered it correctly? =S
I logged it as 1/5 cup of each...it just added up quickly I think
beans are good for you and full or good nutrients im pretty sure, but they are high cal, but maybe you overestimated the amounts?
1/5 cup of each still shouldn't come up to something as high as 600 cals, though. =/
You must be over-estimating. you said the bowl was a one-cup bowl? Then there's no way that everything was 1/2 cup serving! I'd say you didn't go over 400 cals ;)
Check if you entered the beans as "cooked" or "raw". Beans get bigger as they're cooked, so the calories in 1/5 cup of raw beans will be almost double the calories in 1/5 cup of cooked beans.
Well, beans ARE proteins and proteins tend to be dense.
Next time, load up on carrots and celery and lettuce and such and then sprinkle as many beans as you want over top.
for some reason when you enter the beans in the analizer the always come in as raw beans, which have much more calorie per cup, i bet you didnt even go over 300 calories.
Original Post by keto332:
for some reason when you enter the beans in the analizer the always come in as raw beans, which have much more calorie per cup, i bet you didnt even go over 300 calories.
i'm not sure about that i just entered "1 cup beans" in the analizer and this is what i got:
Serving Size 110 g Amount Per Serving Calories 34
of course who knows what kind of "bean" that is for. LOL (but seriously when i did "peas" it did come up as "raw".) so now my quesiton is does "raw" in these situations mean fresh from the "garden" or dried on the shelf?
that being said, unless you are seriously lacking in protien the rest of the day, why not cut some of the beans and add more veggies. i find them the best way to add bulk with out all the calories. of course i actually like the taste of most veggies better than beans anyway.
also, why did you log it as 1/5 cup of each when there were seven items in your 1 cup container?
Beans always enter themselves into the calorie analyser as RAW beans, which have about three times as many calories as cooked ones. Log your salad again using CANNED beans and you'll probably find a big difference in the calories - 1/2 cup cooked beans has 100 calories or so.
NEVERMIND this response isn't applicable. :)
You've added wrong. I added everything up that you listed and got this:
Kidney beans: 31 cals
Soybeans: 28 cals
Chickpeas: 41 cals
Tofu: 52 cals
Peas: 18 cals
Tomato slices: 5 cals
Cucumber slices: 2 cals
Vinaigrette: 25 cals
Even if you used the full amount of vinaigrette, your calories are only 202. Since you listed 7 ingrediants, I took a cup of everything and divided by 7. Obviously you didn't have exactly equal amounts of everything, but the calories won't change by more then probably 10-15 cals each direction. I used cooked versions of the kidney beans, soybeans, chickpeas, and peas, and raw of everything else.
So don't panic - you did well! :D
Thank you so much!!! I used the CC recipe analyzer and it somehow came up with a massive amount of calories! That sounds SO much better and more accurate!
