omg a cookie with 540 calories ????!!!!

ok so today i went to dunkin donuts and got my usual french vanilla coffee and then afetr debating with myself for about 10 minutes ( while waiting for my friend to put in her order) I decided I would buy the chocolate chunk cookie and that would be my lunch. sure enough I bought it and it was beyond delicious.. I gave a little to my friend and my mom( about 1/4 of the cookie ) and decided that in my mental calorie notebook I would give it 200 calories. So I came home and ate a healthy dinner and then came online to log my calories, when I checked on the dunkin donuts website the freaking cookie apparently had 540 calories... I MEAN SERIOUSLY :() I thought only like a brownie could have that much.. I could have had like 50 other different cookies as opposed to one stupid one.. I cannot believe it. and all this b/c apparently I had ordered the special chocolate cookie that is only offered in the northeast with 3 different kinds of chocolate, as opposed to the regular one. CAN you say NEVER EVER again.. it's funny how some foods have more calories then you can ever imagine. So I just thought I'd post this just as a warning to other people who r thinking of buying this cookie lol. has anyone ever indulged in something and then found the calories to be extremely higher then expected??

coralgirly,

i love cookies and just reading about it had me craving one. :P

Before i seriously started counting my calories, i did this once, but had a whole pack of chocolate waffers with about 24 in them while studying for my midterm. I didnt read labels then but i just found out while grocery shopping that 2 wafers have 60 calories... go figure ... that adds up toa grand total of ... 720 .. whopping 720...

Yes!! Puffed wheat cake - I knew it had some sugar in it but I thought, come on, it's PUFFED WHEAT! It can't possibly pack in more than 200 calories.  Man was I wrong - 400plus calories! I just about fell off my computer chair when I too was logging the calories. LOL!

How much was the french vanilla coffee?

Coral...i used to eat the peanut butter cookies there...figuring they were probably about 300-350 calories (before i started watching the foods i eat).   Was just checking things i used to eat often, so i would know the harm i was doing my body...yeah!  way worse then i thought!    Luckily i haven't had cravings for anything like that yet!  (3 weeks in, 12 lb lost)

good luck..and stay away from DD (except for the coffee...now THAT is addicting!)

i had cini min's from burger king today and i found out they were 430 calories!!! i was like holy ***. i wanted to cry...

My local gas stations stocks 750 calories muffins.
And they're not -that- big. Thank goodness I don't like muffins!

How do they do it?

Yeppir, ya'll! Now do you see why they DON'T want to post their nutritionial info? It's so much WORSE than everybody realizes. I wish everybody would stop buying this stuff. Ha -- we should picket outside of these places! If nobody buys them they won't sell them. It's totally insane. 

glenny's make good low-cal stuff.

It is literally shocking the calories that are in commerical foods...appalling really! It is no wonder that restaurants do not post nutrition information! As consumers, we need to take a stand and demand that healthier ingrediants are used in products or that we have the information we need to make a decision at the point of purchase. Why should we have to go home and find out that we ate 1/3 or our daily calories in one cookie? No fair! I don't know what the heck they put in that food that makes it so high in calories (besides whatever it is that makes it taste so good!) The lesson learned, though, is that commerical foods are loaded with calories, and if you remember that 540 calorie cookie it will be easier to say no to yourself next time! Maybe carry a baggie of Ghirdelli 60% cacao chocolate chips in your purse to satisfy the craving, and save yourself boatloads of calories and guilt!

Seeing that nutritional information can be a real eye opener, can't it?

I'm glad you brought this up cora, because I think calorie underestimation is a large contributor to overweight Americans. Most people don't know of a place to find exact calories (like the fabulous CC ;D) and therefore just 'estimate' how many calories are in everything they eat. They eat small enough portions, but, as we all know, that nice little crumb cake from Starbuck's with a side latte is loaded with calories.

But who is to know? We don't expect all of the added sugar (and.. whatever the hell else they put in there..) to be in the food we eat. After looking at the calories for entrees on this site, I'm afraid to go out to eat anymore! Unless I know where we're going ahead of time so I can look at the menu and calories, I'll most likely feel awful when I get home. I think they should post nutritional labels on menus. :D

sandy the french vanilla is 80 calories for a medium w/o milk and sugar.. i add some skim milk and round it off to 100 b/c i rarely add sugar bc the vanilla makes it sweet. for me it's well worth 100 calories coz it gets me through hell days at work. and yea the starbucks food is insanely loaded with calories.. i stay away from almost everything and drink only the low-cal or lowest cal drinks they have. 740cal muffin?? holyyyyyy and then we wonder y our diets dont work when all we had to eat was a muffin, latte and a salad loaded with dressing.. lol

Panera Bread Company. So delicious. But since I figured out how many calories were in their sandwiches, I've sadly said goodbye.

Yup, Starbucks has to be the King of Evil when it comes to fast food. 2 weeks ago, I was there & chose a low-fat blueberry muffin. OK, so I did not expect it to be low-cal as its common knowledge that manufacturers simply replace all that fat with sugar to improve the taste.

However, when I logged on here to record my intake, the caloric value was somewhere in the region of 340 cals! How ludicrous is that!! From now on I will NEVER eat anything from cafes/fast food places unless I know the calorie count.

I found out that the muffins that my mom used to bring me home everyday from the store were 600-700 calories each. Ugh. I think the muffins from Starbucks have around that many calories as well. It was shocking at first, but now I'm not surprised any much. I just do my absolute best to avoid that stuff. It's all just "empty calories" anyway.

I wonder how many cals Costco muffins have? I never eat those, but when I was younger sometimes I would have half of one, and even a whole one occasionally! Those things have GOT to be 1000 cals or something....cringe.

Yeah, Costco muffins hit the 600 calorie mark, at the very least.

Before my weight loss days my favorite cookie was keebler E.L. fudge cookies. I didnt really care for the fudge in the middle but the cookies part would melt in your mouth, so good. I just looked up the info and they are like 90 calories each. Pretty sad to realize I almost could have eaten as many calories in one sitting as I do in a whole day now. I am a lot happier with the knowledge that I don't think I will ever eat like that again.

I ate a piece of pecan pie yesterday at a pot luck.  When I got home I checked it.  I almost died.

One word: Panera.
How do they get that many calories, and that much salt and cholesterol into one vegetable-laden turkey sandwich?  950 calories for a sandwich?!? 3000mg of salt!!!??! It wasn't even very big!

I nearly spit tea all over my desk when I saw that one.