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Calories in wedges?

  • 22-02-2011 7:29pm
    #1
    lachin
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    Hi all,

    I was stuck for something quick to eat for late lunch/dinner today and ending up getting a portion of wedges in Dunnes. I've looked online to find out nutritional info on wedges, specifically, calories, and seem to be coming up with approx 300 cals per portion? Would this be correct?

    Thanks in advance


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  • #2
    rubadub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,386 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    lachin wrote: »
    approx 300 cals per portion? Would this be correct?
    It would probably be correct, for their portion. But we have no idea what that is or what yours is. It really is like asking how long is a piece of string. I have seen chinese takeaways listed as 7.5 weightwatcher points, that I calculated as over 30 points.

    In dunnes you could have gone and weighed them at a veg counter, or deli counter, or those self service checkouts usually have scales built in. You could have gone to the frozen food section and got values for deep fried frozen wedges per 100g

    I estimated a bag of chips from a chipper before.
    rubadub wrote: »
    Bag of chips from Italian chipper 455g

    Going off mc-cains site their premium chips are 253kcal and 7.2g fat sat per 100g

    So 1,151kcal and 33g sat fat so 24.5points for the bag.
    http://points.ogo.ms/

    There is an interview with the italian chipper association guys on youtube, one guy said they used lard, another said a typical fish & chips has about 800kcal! no way in hell!
    That was a standard enough bag I would expect to get if ordering "just chips". I would have guessed 600kcal for typical boxes I see people getting.


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