Chopped

Johnnyhpipe · 19-03-2017 10:38pm #1

Hi,

These Chopped salad places are popping up everywhere now - which is great! I note that their calories are all displayed on the menu and all "exclude the dressing".

I can't seem to find their dressing calories anywhere but suspect that its not quite as low calorie once you add that in! I'd say you could easily add another 150-200 cals for some of these dressings..

Anyone have any info on them?

Cheers

anewme · 19-03-2017 11:48pm

You'd be right in thinking that.

Lemon juice 8 calories.
BBQ zesty 70 calories
Low fat sweet chilli 96 calories
Cajun lemon/ fitzwillam 177 calories
Spiced herb or piri piri 180
Low fat mayo 188 calories
Ceasar 192
Chopped house 196
Honey mustard 225
Balsamic vinaigrette 227
Lemon herb vinaigrette 407
Olive oil 504

Think I left out a couple, Mexican, Greek and Thai are around 182 calories

This is all for 60g dressings in the salads, they put 35,g into the wraps

pinkypinky · 19-03-2017 11:57pm

The portions are enormous. I got 2 days of lunch out of one, and they were still really big. Sure the food is all healthy, but there's too much of it.

Johnnyhpipe · 20-03-2017 12:23am

anewme wrote: »

You'd be right in thinking that.

Lemon juice 8 calories.
BBQ zesty 70 calories
Low fat sweet chilli 96 calories
Cajun lemon/ fitzwillam 177 calories
Spiced herb or piri piri 180
Low fat mayo 188 calories
Ceasar 192
Chopped house 196
Honey mustard 225
Balsamic vinaigrette 227
Lemon herb vinaigrette 407
Olive oil 504

Think I left out a couple, Mexican, Greek and Thai are around 182 calories

This is all for 60g dressings in the salads, they out 35,into the wraps

Excellent thanks!! Where did you find this?

anewme · 20-03-2017 12:28am

Johnnyhpipe wrote: »

Excellent thanks!! Where did you find this?

I got it from chopped. We were getting a salad and my friend got Mexican i twigged the dressing would be high so I only got Lemon juice . Sent them a mail when I noticed no dressing details available.

RockSalto · 20-03-2017 11:26am

Bloody hell! I'll be using half portions of dressing from now on!

L1011 · 20-03-2017 11:50am

The salad bowls are ridiculously large - might be OK if you're going for a mostly veg one, but you're conning yourself if you think multiple rashers, rather a lot of cheese and a tub of caeser on top of a bucket of veg is a light lunch.

anewme · 20-03-2017 11:51am

This is the advice from chopped, which came with the dressing details

A few tips - if you’re calorie conscious we always suggest:
(1) lemon juice - it’s almost cal free, healthy and delicious;
(2) staying away from our olive oil based dressings - although full of healthy natural fats, they are very high in calorie count;
(3) asking for your chosen dressing on-the-side in a ramekin - you can then manage your dressing amount yourself.

Johnnyhpipe · 20-03-2017 12:47pm

From a purely calorie counting perspective...There's less calories in a big mac than in what i was getting from chopped according to this! No comparison in terms of nutrients of course.

Lemon juice today it is!

emo72 · 20-03-2017 12:59pm

One opened up beside me. Was looking at all the beautiful ingredients under the glass. They would make your mouth water. But then they only give a tiny amount of ingredients and smother it in green leaves. I'm not so keen then.

anewme · 20-03-2017 1:07pm

L1011 wrote: »

The salad bowls are ridiculously large - might be OK if you're going for a mostly veg one, but you're conning yourself if you think multiple rashers, rather a lot of cheese and a tub of caeser on top of a bucket of veg is a light lunch.

There's a lot of leaves and not as much filling!!

L1011 · 20-03-2017 3:58pm

anewme wrote: »

There's a lot of leaves and not as much filling!!

They may have got stingier (or they gave more to frequent customers) but I was getting them 3-4 times a week via downthesofa in a previous job. Would be virtual doorsteps of ham or half a pack of rashers in a bowl.

anewme · 20-03-2017 4:55pm

L1011 wrote: »

They may have got stingier (or they gave more to frequent customers) but I was getting them 3-4 times a week via downthesofa in a previous job. Would be virtual doorsteps of ham or half a pack of rashers in a bowl.

I got the Quinoa one and remember I would not be getting fat on the amount of fillings apart from lettuce!

Dial Hard · 20-03-2017 5:28pm

emo72 wrote:

One opened up beside me. Was looking at all the beautiful ingredients under the glass. They would make your mouth water. But then they only give a tiny amount of ingredients and smother it in green leaves. I'm not so keen then.

Isn't that kind of the entire point of a salad?

TimeToShine · 20-03-2017 9:37pm

pinkypinky wrote: »

The portions are enormous. I got 2 days of lunch out of one, and they were still really big. Sure the food is all healthy, but there's too much of it.

I have never, ever, ever had this problem in Chopped. I would be utterly shocked if there are any males around who consider the salad bowls to be too big. I usually get the salmon/chicken and the portion is fairly meagre - they pile the kale in alright but that wouldn't fill you up at all.

emo72 · 20-03-2017 9:48pm

Dial Hard wrote: »

Isn't that kind of the entire point of a salad?

no hassle with greens, i love salads. just the one i did order was a massive amount of leaves and not enough protein. hey now its just my opinion, they seem really popular when they opened up near me, but in fairness they do seem quieter after the initial flurry after opening.

TallGlass · 21-03-2017 12:50am

Johnnyhpipe wrote: »

From a purely calorie counting perspective...There's less calories in a big mac than in what i was getting from chopped according to this! No comparison in terms of nutrients of course.

Lemon juice today it is!

Hate to say it but they have a store beside HillyBillys Chicken in Fairview, I went in. Looked at the menu, looked closely seen for example, 700kcals beside a salad, swiftly left and went into HillyBillys lol.

Thankfully, I have come on a bit in nutrional education since then, but the portion sizes and pricing is to high priced, small portions and smaller prices.

Mellor · 22-03-2017 1:14am

Are people really surprised that a 60g served of olive oil or mayo based dressing is high in cals?

anewme · 22-03-2017 1:19am

Mellor wrote: »

Are people really surprised that a 60g served of olive oil or mayo based dressing is high in cals?

They don't tell you in advance that the amount is 60g
You don't realise it's 60g when it's all "chopped" up.

Mellor · 22-03-2017 1:56am

But surely you can somewhat see the amount, assume you seen/made a salad before. I love my peri peri mayo, but I'm under no illusions when I order chicken and salad covered in the stuff.

Getting the sauce on the side is a good solution and I'm glad they encourage that.
Salads aren't just for weigt loss, so 60g of dressing could be fine for a lot of people

RockSalto · 22-03-2017 7:28am

Mellor wrote: »

But surely you can somewhat see the amount, assume you seen/made a salad before. I love my peri peri mayo, but I'm under no illusions when I order chicken and salad covered in the stuff.

Getting the sauce on the side is a good solution and I'm glad they encourage that.
Salads aren't just for weigt loss, so 60g of dressing could be fine for a lot of people

It's pretty hard to know what 60g of dressing looks like when the person is squirting it out behind a counter. You're not always watching them, you mightn't have a good view and you might be paying for it as they're adding it in.

I would've guessed 100kcal for what they add and a lot more if you get it on the side, which I since have.

plastic glass · 22-03-2017 7:44am

Wrong forum

Lunaarli · 22-03-2017 8:42am

Does anyone know where you can buy the large mezzaluna knife that they use to chop up the ingredients?!

dubguy2017 · 12-04-2017 8:31am

Was not impressed. Got a sald bowel here one day and Id say twas 98% leaves! Wont be going again. Way over rated and not worth the money

Alf Veedersane · 12-04-2017 9:29am

Lunaarli wrote: »

Does anyone know where you can buy the large mezzaluna knife that they use to chop up the ingredients?!

Not large but you can get them on Littlewoods.

Don't seem to have large ones on Amazon either. Maybe some place that sells to trade might have them.

Stock, up by the Gaeity, might have them as well.

anewme · 12-04-2017 11:42am

Someone else got a similar knife, a bit smaller, in Meadows and Byrne

harr · 12-04-2017 11:53am

I find chopped great once you watch what you get...I get my own made up rather than off the set menu ..spinach with a couple of turkey portions and loads of fresh veg,salad and maybe goats cheese and walnuts,I always get dressing on side..normally calories wise it's around 500 and protein is about 30 grams and good fats...the portions are huge and definitely does me as a main dinner.
For lunch the spinach wraps are lower again for calories.

Greenduck · 13-04-2017 1:05pm

I love salads but I am always left feeling underwhelmed with Chopped. I know its ironic but I think they chop-up their salads way too much. Its usually a soggy mess halfway through. I'm not mad on their combos either so usually get my own made up.

Sprout and Co on Dawson Street is unbelievably good. Their salads are unreal - probably high on calories but my god are they tasty. In a different league to chopped. Hopefully they open one on the Northside!

CM24 · 13-04-2017 11:34pm

I recently started using my food processor again and forgot how useful it is. You can throw in a massive pile of chicken/turkey and whatever vegetables you want and just press a button for a few seconds and it chops it all up into something similar to what you get in Chopped. Then you can throw on whatever low calorie dressings you want.

Sometimes though you're just out in town and don't have time to prepare anything and in that case, there's not many better options than Chopped. Some Tescos and Spars have delis where you can take your own mix of salads but you usually have to buy the meat separately.

mmclo · 09-05-2017 10:37pm

Has anyone a link to the menu with calories, can't find it anywhere

topanga · 23-06-2017 5:06pm

I found this - m3mulhuddartservices.ie/custom/public/files/chopped-screen-menus.pdf - but they don't seem to have the calories listed on their main website any more.

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