Caesar salad - 1,000 calories?

zbluebirdz

The IrishTimes had an article called "Calorie count down". It's about the calorie counting on menus and subsituting one meal for another.

One thing that piqued my interest was this "... a typical Caesar salad with croutons and dressing could come to about 1,000 calories.".

Where does the 1,000 calories come from?

accensi0n

zbluebirdz wrote: »

The IrishTimes had an article called "Calorie count down". It's about the calorie counting on menus and subsituting one meal for another.

One thing that piqued my interest was this "... a typical Caesar salad with croutons and dressing could come to about 1,000 calories.".

Where does the 1,000 calories come from?

The salad, croutons and dressing.

watna

The dresing is seriously bad on Ceasar Salad. In my teens I worked in Eddie Rockets and the amount of women who came in and said to their friends "I'm being good I'll just have the Ceasar Salad today" was unreal. I always wanted to say something to them about it . It was full of chese and deep fried bread. You'd be better off having a burger without the bun.

Mellor

zbluebirdz wrote: »

Where does the 1,000 calories come from?

Chicken = 250 cals
Bacon = 100cals
Egg = 150 cals
Croutons = 200
Dressing = 225
Parmesan = 75

1000 cals wouldn't be difficult at all for a large one

Bottle_of_Smoke

does a caesar sal always have chicken and bacon? my local aldi are taking the piss if they do!

Gummy Panda

Bottle_of_Smoke wrote: »

does a caesar sal always have chicken and bacon? my local aldi are taking the piss if they do!

Yeah. Usually it's chicken and bacon.

Though most supermarket just give leafs, dressing, croutons and parmesan in there ready made bowls.

El_Dangeroso

I used to always eat ridiculously large salads when low carbing, drenched in vinegrette, never had a clue how many cals were in them.

I still lost a tonne of weight, sometimes ignorance is bliss! I wonder is there a placebo effect for diet foods?

Hanley

El_Dangeroso wrote: »

I used to always eat ridiculously large salads when low carbing, drenched in vinegrette, never had a clue how many cals were in them.

I still lost a tonne of weight, sometimes ignorance is bliss! I wonder is there a placebo effect for diet foods?

Ignorance is cortisol free bliss.

Mellor

Bottle_of_Smoke wrote: »

does a caesar sal always have chicken and bacon? my local aldi are taking the piss if they do!

Gummy Panda wrote: »

Yeah. Usually it's chicken and bacon.

Though most supermarket just give leafs, dressing, croutons and parmesan in there ready made bowls.

A proper caesar salad is lettuce, croutons, parmesan, egg and dressing.

If you add chicken, its a chicken caesar salad, which is one to watch for on menus .

Any chicken caesar salad that I've gotten has always had anchovies instead of bacon!

starsinmyeyes

I read that article, it really makes you think. More restaurants need to be disclosing this sort of information on their menus. Always get the dressing on the side as they can arrive loaded in sauce. The restaurant in the article is bay in Clontarf. I personally love going there and knowing what I am eating as opposed to living in ignorant large underpant bliss!!!

chris139ryan

its amazing how many people think they are being healthy ordering this salad when its actually one of the highest calorie dishes on most menus

Frogdog

chris139ryan wrote: »

its amazing how many people think they are being healthy ordering this salad when its actually one of the highest calorie dishes on most menus

You're equating food high in calories with being unhealthy, which isn't always the case. I'm being pedantic here.

For most people yes, they should be worried about the total amount of calories a food/meal contains. For some of us though, healthy may mean low in sugar, starchy carbs, trans fats etc.

Mellor

Frogdog wrote: »

You're equating food high in calories with being unhealthy, which isn't always the case. I'm being pedantic here.

For most people yes, they should be worried about the total amount of calories a food/meal contains. For some of us though, healthy may mean low in sugar, starchy carbs, trans fats etc.

I disagree.

For some people healthy might mean low sugar, trans fats, sodium etc.
But the people who order a ceasar salad to be healthy are doing so as they believe it is low in calories. So the previous post is spot on imo

Frogdog

Mellor wrote: »

I disagree.

For some people healthy might mean low sugar, trans fats, sodium etc.
But the people who order a ceasar salad to be healthy are doing so as they believe it is low in calories. So the previous post is spot on imo

I don't see where you're disagreeing with me. If anything your post is a rehash of mine. I wasn't disagreeing with the previous post either.

Anyway, I think we both know what we're saying. I hope! :pac:

starsinmyeyes

Frogdog wrote: »

You're equating food high in calories with being unhealthy, which isn't always the case. I'm being pedantic here.

For most people yes, they should be worried about the total amount of calories a food/meal contains. For some of us though, healthy may mean low in sugar, starchy carbs, trans fats etc.

I agree to the most extent. Although the problem here is that we are not given any of this information. So for people with diabetes or high blood pressure, they are walking into a mind field trying to order in a restaurant and knowing what they are consuming, this is why it is vital more restaurants offer up this information. You raise a good point about high sugar etc for this exact reason. However I do think everyone should be concerned with calories. One in 3 people in Ireland are now overweight with something like one in 5 being clinically obese. Everyday I am out walking I see overweight and obese children and it is horrible. If we do not start understanding our calorie intake then we are just going to get worse and worse. There is no denying Ireland is now an obese nation. The ceaser salad is the best example of this as people have such misconceptions about what is classed as healthy and a salad with 1000 calories and grams and grams of saturated fat cannot be classed as such