Curry chips with cheese

limerickgal89

Any idea how many calories are in an average curry chip and cheese?

the beer revolu

If you have to ask - you can't afford it!!;)

Faith

Moved to Nutrition & Diet as they'll know better. Depending on the amount of cheese, I'd be surprised if it was less than 600 calories.

corkcomp

Faith wrote: »

Moved to Nutrition & Diet as they'll know better. Depending on the amount of cheese, I'd be surprised if it was less than 600 calories.

depending on portion and how well oil drained from chips etc etc but id guess it could easily be double that - over 1000 cals at least

rubadub

I worked out a chinese before.

rubadub wrote: »

Over christmas I went to my old chinese that I used to go to 1-2 times a week when I lived nearby. My usual was chicken balls, curry sauce, chips (I know not chinese!).

I got it and it weighed loads, always did. So I got home and weighed each to see what I used to be eating.
Chips- 520g (no joke! my scales is fine)
Chicken balls- 350g
Sauce- 200g.

I reckon the chips are ~250kcal per 100g, chicken ~300kcal/100g, sauce 150kcal/100g. Those are probably conservative figures, chicken balls are really just donuts, and sauce is probably loaded with oil.

So probably at least 2500kcal in all.

So the chips would have been 1300, and the sauce 300, so 1600kcal in all (cheese extra).

Strictly for research purproses I have gotten a few more since and the chips weighed in at ~350-370g most of the time. The ones in my old chinese were more like deep fried wedges. So at 350g it would be 875 and 300 for the sauce so 1175kcal in all -and again you have to add cheese on top.

It would depend on portions of course, your place might give more or less, with cheese sounds like its a chipper who usually give less than a Chinese takeaway. Maybe weigh it next time. Most Chinese dishes I get are about 800-1000g in weight, while most microwave ready meals are ~400g

mloc

I'd hazard a guess at about 1500 kcal.

Realistically, anyone who is counting calories should probably not be eating curry chips with cheese.

rubadub

You could make your own low(er) calorie version. Tesco healthy living oven chips are quite low in calories, and too dry for my liking, they would be OK with curry sauce. Bensons curry sauce is very similar to chipper & chinese curry sauce, you get it in dunnes or supervalu in the gravy section as it is a dry mixture -not the healthiest though, has MSG in it, but probably about the same as the chippers. McDonnells curry sauce is also meant to be similar. Or just make your own healthier curry sauce, many hot jar sauces are tomato based with very little added oil and no MSG, since they are hot you need less.

You could also try bombay potatoes, basically curried potatoes.

mloc

rubadub wrote: »

You could make your own low(er) calorie version. Tesco healthy living oven chips are quite low in calories, and too dry for my liking, they would be OK with curry sauce. Bensons curry sauce is very similar to chipper & chinese curry sauce, you get it in dunnes or supervalu in the gravy section as it is a dry mixture -not the healthiest though, has MSG in it, but probably about the same as the chippers. McDonnells curry sauce is also meant to be similar. Or just make your own healthier curry sauce, many hot jar sauces are tomato based with very little added oil and no MSG, since they are hot you need less.

You could also try bombay potatoes, basically curried potatoes.

Health wise, the worst part of a curry chips with cheese would be the massive fat (particularly the combination of omega-6 and saturates, possibly also a good bit of trans) load combined with shed loads of relatively simple carbs, and buckets of sodium.

You could probably make a healthy version with a bit of thought.

neuro-praxis

I'd imagine this request is an attempt to calculate the damaged done the night before. :pac:

As suggested you could give the home-made version a go. Boil a couple of large spuds, when cooled, slice them into chunky chips and roast in a bit of olive oil. Make up a curry sauce (as rubadub said, Benson's is pretty good) and top with a bit of grated cheddar (I recommend Dubliner Light). Almost as good as the real thing!

How Strange

I'm quite partial to a bag of chipper chips but try to limit it to a couple of times a year because you just know they are artery clogging and hip widening.

Homemade chips are damn good. I usually leave the skins on and cut them really chunky. Put them in a plastic bag with some olive oil, salt and pepper. Mix them around so the chips are well coated with oil and then pop into the oven at about 180oc and turn them over every so often. They should be ready in 30 mins. Very tasty!

yungwan

i agree howstrange.
And also as suggested elsewhere, oven chips are also good.
I always eat oven chips! Throw out that deep fat frier people! They are far too handy and fill everything full of fat!!

And cheese is possibly the worst thing u can eat!! it is soooo fatty and is even worse for you when melted as it is very difficult for you to digest!

If you really want to recreate the cheese curry chip at home literally put a TINY grating on it. The taste is there but not all the calories - and use low fat cheese. Its possible to cut calorific corners at every turn if you really think about it!!!!

Getwellsoon

I'd avoid it altogether, seeing as nobody would have any idea how much of anything really goes into it. As everyone else has said, you could try making your own.... but if you're desperate for a bit of the real thing, I'd suggest just getting a small pot of the sauce from the chinese and baking a few potato wedges yourself from scratch to dip in

Stella777

Which sort of cheese do they put on them?

Supercell

Are whole fat cheeses really that bad for you? I'm not sure modern nutritional thinking would agree if eaten in a balanced low carb diet. Though eating 1500 cal meals after a feed of drink probably is not going to do your waistline any favours!

EileenG

Full fat cheese is fine, as long as you are aware of the calories in what you are eating.

One interesting study found that many Irish women were suffering from anovular infertility due to eating too much low fat food, and recommended that any woman wanting to get pregnant should eat at least one or two portions of FULL FAT dairy a day.

Getwellsoon

EileenG wrote: »

Full fat cheese is fine, as long as you are aware of the calories in what you are eating.

One interesting study found that many Irish women were suffering from anovular infertility due to eating too much low fat food, and recommended that any woman wanting to get pregnant should eat at least one or two portions of FULL FAT dairy a day.

Eileen, can I ask why/how eating low-fat food leads to such infertility? It may be linked to something I tried to explain in another thread on here - about how my low body fat percentage (due a low-fat vegan diet) affected my periods. Thanks!

EileenG

I honestly don't know. It was in the papers, but the interviews were the typical "sound bite" type, with very little about the mechanics of it. It could well be that a low fat diet tricks your body into thinking that it can't sustain a pregnancy.

corkcomp

a lot of women on low fat diets are really on now fat diets, i know examples where even healthy fats are not consumed, this does cause hormone imbalances. there is a midle ground though, it is not necessary to consume tons of fat to be healthy. slightly o/t but I can never understand how posh spice managed to get pregnant judging by the reports of a diet of lettuce leaves and prawns!