Portions sizes: Starbucks Brownie
Christine Freeman
Hi all!
I'm entering what I actually eat into Mastercook, to try to get a handle on that which actually goes in my mouth.
I have the calorie count on one of these brownies, but I don't have the portion size. "Whole" doesn't cut it.
Does anyone have either the info, or a food scale who could weigh their next brownie for me?
Online nutritional info from restaurants is entirely too basic, and often misses things like portion size. I guess what they can't control, they won't list. Managing a restaurant, I get this.
Anyway, I really appreciate it.
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You can get a folding digital scale that fits in your purse/backpack/sling/briefcase for $10-20. If there's too much variation in brownie size for them to list it, there's too much variation for someone else's brownie to be anywhere near accurate.
Yes, I know. I wanted a general idea. My batteries are dead. I don't carry a purse and my pockets only have room for my phone, debit card and lipstick. Nice idea, though!
Starbucks says it's 104 g. Of course, YYMV.
https://www.starbucks.com/menu/product/1130/single/nutrition
2.5” x 4.5” weighs up to a pound, has its own tray, $16. https://www.webstaurantstore.com/taylor-1250bk-salter-16-oz-ultra-fine-compact-digital-scale/6081250BK.html?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=GoogleShopping&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIlbHglqjN_AIVhiytBh2X1wBqEAQYAiABEgLLMfD_BwE
Darn!
I work for a franchise restaurant group, and I know we have different menus + nutrition pages, depending upon where we are in the country.
When I went in before, I found their .pdf file of nutritional info, which didn't include the brownie. A chocolate chunk cookie, yes, but no brownie. I wrote the company at the address on the page in Switzerland and got yet another nutrition .,pdf which had the brownie.
Here, your link, has it on the very same page as the product.
Talk about circles.
Thanks.
I like the little scale, but as I mentioned, I have one but haven't been around during business hours to get batteries.
Thanks for your time and the links!
No problem. Sometimes a little variation in search terms, or even search history given all the idiotic predictive environments that get in the way of giving you what you want, can make a big difference! I was actually looking at third party sources that had weighed out the brownies when I stumbled upon the Starbuck's listing.
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Are you trying to lose weight? I am too. I wouldn't go near any brownie. I know it's going to be high in calories.
Ok.
You asked.
Well, in a way I am and I'm not. After 40 years, I finally made a resolution to try to eat smaller portions. I can out eat most men. It helped that I'd had a head cold that completely knocked out my appetite, so I'm also running with that.
My (normal) diet consists of
Breakfast, about 8 oz of skim milk + double espresso, along with either a Reese's Big Cup or a Starbuck's Brownie.
For lunch, if I have it, it's a salad - lettuce, but with raisins, tomatoes, bacon, cucumbers, celery, pecans, a tiny bit of cheese, eggs, sometimes potato sticks with usually Caesar or Balsamic dressing.
Dinner? Who knows. Maybe another, smaller salad, maybe a Longhorn restaurant steak. The thing is, I work in a BBQ restaurant, so my choices are limited by what I'm not sick of Occasionally I'll have ribs or some chopped pork. Maybe a kids' burger.
All that has put 40 pounds on me, after losing 30 in chemo in 2020.
All I'm trying to do is cut back. Salad has become lettuce, tomatoes, a very little cheese, eggs and bacon, same dressing. Dinner is another salad or a kids' chopped pork sandwich or 2, not 5 ribs. Sometimes some rib tips. Again, side order size of 4ounces, not a dinner size of 16.
Maybe a glass of wine before bed. Maybe not.
I eat the same things every single day. Every. Single. Day.
See, I don't actually eat much but it's quite rich. So cutting down to kids' portions and not bored eating, I can have my regular breakfast. A side effect is at 64, I'm losing weight. 13 pounds since mid December and the head cold. I have to recognize the difference between actual hunger and "oooo that looks good," or "I'm bored, that looks good." (Eating disorders will screw with your head for your entire life.)
So no, I can't say I'm dieting, but I am cutting back.
I really just wanted to add the brownie and other things into my Mastercook so I could see, in my face and unavoidably, what I'm eating and the calories involved.
I am not saying "no" to anything, if I want it. But I am asking myself if I'm hungry or it is an impulse. I've lost 1000s of pounds in my life by dieting and they all came back. I don't do bad things. I have never done drugs, barely drink, don't shoplift, and as far as I can remember, used to like sex, but I don't even do that. So if I have a brownie or Reese's Big cup for breakfast?
Well, hun. I gotta die of something.