Eating Fast Food in a Calorie Deficit
Calorie deficit fast food counted from the chains' own menus: ten McDonald's and Chick-fil-A meals at 200–900 kcal and four Chipotle bowls at 355–905 kcal.
Claire Donovan · · 6 min readTopic
Calories in restaurant and fast food
Big chains publish nutrition numbers for most of their menu. A bowl you build yourself is another story: rice, cheese and sauce can swing it by 500 calories.
So we take popular orders apart and add them back up, piece by piece. And when there's no menu number at all, a photo plus a quick look at the portions gets you surprisingly close. That's how you log a meal out in Calsa.
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High Protein Fast Food Orders, Ranked per 100 Calories
Chick-fil-A grilled nuggets give 25 g of protein for 130 kcal. High protein fast food from four chains, ranked by protein per 100 calories.
Claire Donovan · · 6 min read
Key number25 gprotein in 8 grilled nuggets (130 kcal)
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A restaurant menu calorie counter should use published numbers first, then gram estimates. Size gaps and unlisted extras, like 119 kcal of oil, are the misses.
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