For “fun” I just worked out the calories involved in my lunch today. I didn’t realise a slice of bread is getting on for 100 calories. The wafer thin ham isn’t too bad, neither was the flora. But the mayonnaise – the nice organic free range egg mayonnaise – consists of basically nothing but fat.
So even if you have a tablespoon it’s a huge amount of calories and fat.
Here it is in detail:
Four slices of Hovis white sliced medium bread @ 40g a slice, 92 calories per slice.
0.8g of fat per slice, 0.2g of which is saturated fat.
Big wodge of ham – this is about a calorie a gram, and I probably had upwards of 60g, at a guess. Possibly more. It has not much fat in it at all, of any kind.
Flora light spread has 37 calories per serving of two teaspoons, 3.8g of fat, 0.9g of which are saturated fats.
Mayonnaise: per 15ml serving (a tablespoon) is 125 calories! 13g of fat! 1.5 of that saturated fat.
The mustard doesn’t list it’s calorific content. A quick google suggests there’s really bugger all calories in it, thankfully.
So from my sums, which may be slightly wrong because I am really rubbish at sums, but I think they are roughly correct, my lunch today was:
590 calories!
20g of fat! 3.2 of which were saturated fat!
It was bloody nice though.
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