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Vietnamese Sandwich??


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I just ate the most delish vietnamese sandwich for lunch today, and cannot find any info on how to log it....

 

I'm guesing around 600 cals, but to be sure, does anyone have a better idea?

 

6 or 7 inch crispy breadstick (200cals)

3 oz/85g pork, marinated in lemongrass (150cals)

various sauces (mayo, pate, sweet chilli) (200cals)

small amount of shredded lettuce and carrot (50cals)

 

does this seem right? or could I be underestimating it???

 

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Mmmmm...  banh mi....  I'm jealous!

Your estimate looks pretty good to me, but there is definitely room for error with so many ingredients.  Mayo and pate are going to be some of the hardest to estimate because they are pretty dense in calories.  Any chance next time you get one that you could dissect it and weigh the ingredients before eating?  That's what I did and actually found that I was overestimating some of the ingredients.  Spreads are still tough to estimate, but at least you'd limit the error on the other ingredients.

oh wow you had a banh mi... im with coreyander jelous. well alot of different stores use different breads, marinades, ways of cooking excetra but usually it should be around a 600 -700 calorie sandwhich.

i make them at home myself and use low fat natural yoghurt, chilli sauce, corrinader for ther flavours on top and its much lower calorie. i also pickle my own vegetables in rice wine vinegar and marinade chicken or pork or prawns in whatever. there really easy to make at home and you can also use wholemeal crunchy bread if you want. but they are much better store bought, no doubt about it. and also if you want to make it at home i suggest fresh chillis makes a huge difference!

When you say crispy bread stick, do you mean some kind of hard bread roll?  The size of the roll would have a big part in the calorie count. 

It sounds yummy by the way.

the bread can come in different sizes. foot longs or amall cibata type rolls so that would also make a difference. the bread isn't like cibata though just sized, its vietnamese bread (of course)

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