How many calories is this do you think?

[Kitchenbattle]

Probably a stupid question, but I’m trying to be healthier now, not that I’m terribly unhealthy. But I’m trying to eat a bit better. So this is what I have today I work in Office. Not completely sedentary but obviously I’m sitting for a lot of the day.
I don’t have a scales, so I can’t weigh my food I have.
This morning I have three stewed pears with the cinnamon and Garam masala, three big spoons of yoghurt and a small pot of granola to put together for breakfast. For lunch, I have a sandwich with lettuce, turkey small bit of mayonnaise and cucumber, and a small handful of sugar snap peas.
For dinner I would have a homemade breaded chicken breast with salad. I’m 5’2 and weigh approx 9.5stone.

You sound like a healthy weight for your height, why do you want to count calories? Concentrate on eating more healthily and sensible portion sizes.

Without scales, it's hard to say. Your best bet is to guesstimate based on packet size and the kcal per 100g on the side of the packet. Eg, the packet is 500g, you've used a fifth of it, so that's xx kcal. Or just buy some scales...

Hard to say, is it full fat yogurt? Look at the granola packet they are usually very high calorie. Is there butter on the sandwich? How are you breading and cooking the chicken breast?

It’s full fat Greek yogurt yes. No butter on sandwich. I will be using egg, flour with spices and gluten free crackers.

At a guess, around 800cals in total for your breakfast & lunch.

It's impossible to say without knowing the calories of the things you are adding. Are you oven cooking the chicken or pan frying, how many gf crackers and how many calories does each one have. No one can even guesstimate based on the information provided. I'd say your sandwich is probably around 400 calories but that depends on how much a little bit of mayo is how much chicken you've used, how was that chicken cooked etc

Your weight seems fine, I would prioritise eating a good variety and listening to my body for cues when full etc.

From the point of view of eating healthier your breakfast seems balanced on the surface but actually high in sugar (70g) and calories. Using MFP and rough measurements based on your post.

Upload the photos to chatgpt it will give you are reasonable estimation.

If you want to calorie count, you do need scales to do it properly. However, if you stick to using the same containers/utensils, you only need to weigh once, then in future you will know that half a cup of X contains Y calories etc.

As pp said, it doesn't sound as though you need to lose much weight, or to lose it quickly, and the alternative approach would be a relaxed trial and error, where you eat healthily (as you seem to be doing) and if you're not losing weight, just cut down a little until you start to see a loss.

I think it's more. Granola is very high calorie. A small pot could easily be 200 cals. Three pears are about 150 to 180 depending on size. If cooked with sugar or fruit juice, about 200. 3 large spoons of Greek Yoghurt could be another 100 -150 cals. That breakfast could be as much as 650 cals. It's the sort of thing I love but I'd have one poached pear, one large spoon of yoghurt snd a soupspoon of granola sprinkled on top to bring it in at around 200 - 250 cals.

Sandwich depends on bread and mayo. Small thin sliced loaf of no sugar bread is 50 cals a slice but a lot of bread is over 100 a slice. Full fat mayo is like butter - could be 50 cals in a spoonful. Thin sliced turkry is v low cal. Chunks of roast turkey is more. So could be 200 or 450 cals.

Those two could be over 100 cals.

The pears were two small pears and one larger conference pear. Cooked with water and the spices. No sugar or juice.

I was going to shallow fry the chicken but I might bake it instead.

i will check the granola now.

all is gluten free as in coeliac, my weight is ok but I would like to lose 1/2 stone.

i have never calorie counted before 😂😬

There should be info on whatever ingredients you're using e.g. avg. per slice of bread.

If you're having like, the full pot of yoghurt, it's simple arithmetic. If you're having SOME of whatever, just kind of estimate the amount you're having. Even easier if you're having the lot over x days »» just either do avg. per day, or measure whole intake across multiple days.

Usually just disregard nutritional value of herbs/spices imo, as well as most veg. I'd only factor in starchy veg - potato, corn etc. fruit, just use the given estimated value on their container.

Best wishes

Edit: Also, highly recommend getting some scales, if you're going to be trying to Calorie-count.

thank you! 😊 it’s a big tub of yogurt and it said daily serving 100g (can’t remember the calories now 🫣) I’ll have to look at them more! I will definitely get a scales!!

Np. There'll be info of the total mass of the yoghurt, so I'd personally do avg. per day (the "recommended serving size" on a lot of stuff like this is ridiculous)