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

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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

67% are saying IABU to think it was less than 1000 calories though

Also depends on your idea of a handful and your hand size!

As someone who worked in Wetherspoons, that's actually the calorie count before it's all fried. It's the calories of the raw ingredients. Frying adds a sh*t tonne of calories.

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@Graciebobcat The Nutracheck is likely pretty sound. I have had 1500 calories in one dinner and that's more like needing a lie down level whereas 700-800 after exercise = nicely full.

No this is a terrible measurement of the calories in something. Volume and type of food has a much bigger impact on how full you feel than calories. There is literally no way of knowing how many calories you have eaten based on how full you feel. 800 cal of chips with oil, apples, ice cream will all feel totally different on your stomach.

A Wetherspoons small breakfast and a bowl of chips (not huge) comes to around 1050 calories

Wetherspoon menu has calories on. Sounds closest to this?

Small all-day brunch 666 kcal
Sausage, bacon, fried egg, baked beans, chips

Ooops just seen people have already shared the spoons menu counting!

My advice from when I was tracking calories. Round up.. so I would go for the 1000 on this.

I’d say more like 600

@Aquestioningmind WHAT! How is that fair.... it will have me questioning my cals for everything now lol.

I get it to 645 on my nutracheck app but just guess at sizes really so unlikely to be accurate.

I always round up so I would go with 800 just to be sure.

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Can you check the menu online? They should have the cals info these days.

Oh I’m two pages behind, IGNORE me 🤭

I think it is only restaurants who employ more than a certain number of staff who have to provide calories on the menus.

It would be illegal to have the calorie count before cooking on the menu as that means they would be missing out an ingredient (oil).

The oil would only be an exempt item if it was for example a salad dressing offered in amongst a lot of different salad dresings for the customer to add themselves as they choose or not. It would not be exempt if the oil was already incorporated into the meal or served as a sachet with the meal.

(See The Calorie Labelling (Out of Home Sector) (England) Regulations 2021)

It's sadly not unusual. Real amount is probably closer to 900+ calories...and that's if they give you a small portion of chips.

It's like how some restaurants have put calories on salads that don't actually take into account the dressings (which are usually 2-300 calories extra!). Although I've noticed that is more common in the US than the UK...

Mayonnaise?! On a fry up?! I bloody hope not.

There are no exemptions for only having a certain number of staff members.

Big chains do lots of things that are illegal and/or really dodgy in terms of food standards. And let's not forget these are their 'best guesses' to start with, and they'll always under-estimate to encourage people to buy things they otherwise wouldn't where the mark-up is higher. It's basic marketing for them.

For example:

Whetherspoons a potion of beans on toast = 251 calories.

But if you order beans and then a portion of toast = 317 calories.

When it's plated up in Wetherspoons it is exactly the same portion. Which one do you think is more likely?

Nonsense.
Unless the OP has covered everything in butter?

A lot of restaurants put the calories on their menus now maybe you could check if they have it on there? The chips will definitely be bumping the cals right up, when you look at the chips calories on menus they are usually more than a burger.

Sorry I missed the messages suggesting to check the menu - my local pub does it so I don't think it's just restaurants with a lot of staff

Government website says otherwise -

The changes – which were approved by Parliament in 2021 – mean it is now a legal requirement for large businesses with more than 250 employees, including cafes, restaurants and takeaways, to display calorie information of non-prepacked food and soft drinks.