A surprising revelation

[eveglass]

Today, just on a whim, I decided to calculate how many calories I eat for breakfast. My standard breakfast is two slices of whole wheat toast (flax!) with peanut butter, and a glass of orange juice. I never knew how much peanut butter I was putting on my toast, so I decided to pull out my kitchen scale and do a before-and-after measurement, which revealed that I was putting about 20g of peanut butter, about one and a third tablespoons.

Looked at all the packages, figured it all out... 500 calories.

What?!? Crazy! It's two pieces of toast and a freakin' glass of orange juice! That works out to 500 calories?!?

Maybe it's time to start hunting for a new standard breakfast...


Edited to add: I've been hunting around the net and found a few interesting sites that show what 200 calories of a variety of foods look like, or what a 300-calorie meal looks like. Interesting stuff, posted here mostly for my own reference and for the edification of my readers.

- What does 200 calories look like?
- What do 300-calorie meals look like?
- 300 calorie food picture gallery
- What do 300-calorie meals really look like? (comparison between home-made and restaurant)
- 300-calorie breakfast meal
- Easy, healthy breakfasts under 300 calories

Comments

[tygrbabe.livejournal.com]

peanuts and tree nuts are amazingly high in calories because their fat content is high so even the natural stuff is high in calories. low fat dairy products (like low fat cream cheese) are a better choice to spread on toast if you're counting calories.

also, when i started looking at calories i was shocked to see how high most grains are. so really, it's best to fill up on veggies and have reasonable to small portions of the rest.