Counting Calories

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(Or kilocalories, if you prefer.)

Just for kicks, I decided to see how many Calories are in the chipped-beef gravy I make. I don’t actually measure but I used these (you’ll need the old format display to view the code-tagged table correctly):


Ingredient	Calories	Amount	Total
Flour	        28	        2	56
Margarine	76	        2	152
2% milk	        122	        4	488
Dried beef	120	        0.25	30

That comes to 726 Calories for the whole batch.

Add to that:


Ingredient	Calories	Amount	Total
1 egg	        78	        1	78
Grands biscuits	170        	2	340

So let’s say 4 servings per pot of gravy. One meal would be 182 + 78 + 340 = 600 Calories. That seems very low.

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That seems okay to me, unless you’re underestimating the biscuit calorie count.

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I count calories regularly, and what you have for the egg and biscuit looks right to me. I’m not a gravy fan so I have no idea if you’ve calculated that correctly.

Or did you mean that 600 calories seems too little for a meal? It seems reasonable to me for an adult man. I’d want to add some sort of vegetable too, but most veggies wouldn’t add much to the calorie count.

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I heard that if they catch you counting in the supermarket they will throw you out.