to estimate that this brunch wouldn’t be more than 1000 calories

[Stopwatching]

Be kind.
Small sausage, rasher of bacon, fried egg, spoonful of baked beans, fried mushrooms and couple of handfuls of chips.
Is 1000 calories a reasonable estimate as calorie-counting atm?
Thanks

Nowhere near 1000 calories unless it’s all fried in oil/butter. More like 600

I'd estimate more around 1300/1500, especially if you consider what each item is fried in and what fat percentage sausages used

Yep, was gonna say 600 - 650, depending on how big a 'handful' of chips.

I would calculate 650 cals, depending on how many chips are a couple of handfuls.

Depends on how it’s cooked and how big ‘handfuls of chips’ are.

Depends how it's cooked and how you define a "handful" of chips.

You can use my fitness pal to calculate all this.

Also if you enjoyed it and don't plan to eat one everyday I dont see the point or benefit of worrying about the calories.

Fried in lots of oil and big handfuls of chips it could easily be higher than 1000, grilled and just a few chips it could be around 800 I guess

This is why eating out is such a ‘mare when trying to calorie count!

What do you mean be kind? Surely nobody will come along and say “a SMALL SAUSAGE YOU FAT BITCH”

Sausages and chips are the ones that will surprise you. Average pub portion of chips is calculated at 500 calories - I'm no scientist but this feels a massive exaggeration.

Average sausage is 200 odd so if it's half the size, count it as 100.
Half a tin of beans is 200 so I'd count it as 50 to be safe.
Egg is 100
Bacon 50/100.
Mushrooms are the devils food so no idea.

I'm quite bad at calorie counting but I'd say 500 max.

Urgh forgot the chips so add that to my 500. That's why I'm fat 😂

Good point, definitely enjoyed it and it is an occasional treat

I'd say 600 to 800 depending on how it's cooked

It isn't so much about the individual items of food, but the cooking method. Oil is very calorific. Obviously grilled is lower calorie than fried. Are the chips oven chips or proper chips etc

Be kind?!

I reckon all cooked with lots of oil, that’s why it was so delicious 😋

186 sausage
75 bacon
70 egg
Chips could be 500
Mushrooms - fat soaks in like a sponge so possibly 100
Beans 120

So 1050 calories. Although your measurements are very imprecise, so it could be up or down by 200 calories, tbh.

Large McDonalds fries are 450 calories

Grilling would have reduced calories versus deep fried and streaky bacon

Id assume less than 1000 maybe 700-800?

I just meant don’t vilify me for eating that brunch when a MN salad should have sustained me for the whole week

I am estimating 600Kcal
I know you are keen to 'be safe' but overestimating can be as harmful as underestimating.

Things like "a small sausage" "a spoonful of beans" are really vague measurements that will vary massively person to person.

What is a small sausage?

Unless its a cocktail sausage usually they are all close to the same size.

It comes across as you trying to downplay the size.

You've lowballed the sausage but you also forgot the oil for egg, chips and perhaps the sausage and bacon @ReturnOfTheRainMac! That will be 120 cals per tablespoon (but obviously if you fry in 2 tbsp oil I don't think you have to count all of that unless you licked the pan clean!)

OP - unless you're eating it every day you'll be fine. Even if you ate up to your maintenance level (e.g. 2200) a couple of times a week, you can still end the week in a calorie deficit. There's also a school of thought that says zig-zagging your calories is good for your metabolism, so rather than have every day at 1300 on the nose, maybe over the course of a week you have 1000, 1500, 1200, 1300, 1800, 2000... etc.

Here we go. This is the kind of distorted nonsense I’m here for in these eating threads.