# Counting Calories **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 20, 2017, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/counting-calories/796840 "2017-09-20T23:54:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2017, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/counting-calories/796840/1 "2017-09-20T23:54:13Z")
(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): ```auto 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: ```auto 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. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2017, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/counting-calories/796840/2 "2017-09-21T00:59:03Z")
That seems okay to me, unless you’re underestimating the biscuit calorie count. ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2017, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/counting-calories/796840/3 "2017-09-21T01:16:01Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2017, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/counting-calories/796840/4 "2017-09-21T08:17:15Z")
I heard that if they catch you counting in the supermarket they will throw you out.