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Published January 07, 2010

Study: Calorie counts off at chains, frozen meals chat

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Burley B.
Fargo, ND     01/07/2010 11:39 PM

I am thinking about writing a book with instructions on getting nutritious meals on the week night table in 30 minutes or less. It can be done; I know, I do it every night.

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little a.
01/07/2010 10:10 PM

Burley, yes!! We work and have busy teens. Everybody cleans veggies--it takes 5 minutes.

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Burley B.
Fargo, ND     01/07/2010 5:29 PM

little a: you are so right. I cook from scratch almost every night and when I don't we are eating leftovers. Pre-packaged takes as much time to fix and has added things we don't need. We hardly ever eat out because of the poor quality of restaurants in Fargo/Moorhead and the shear waste of time that it takes to eat there. We have two busy children and we both work; it is not easy but entirely doable and a great deal less expensive.

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heather m.
01/07/2010 5:12 PM

Jesse S, If you're going to eat out I've always thought Ruby Tuesday was an excellent alternative and just because you have a Lean Cuisine for lunch doesn't mean "you're stuffing your mouth with frozen meals" and don't take training seriously. The Daily Recommendations found on every packaged food item are based on a 2000 calorie diet. 1500 and 1200 are NOT the norm

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Jennifer T.
01/07/2010 4:49 PM

Alex S - Actually, a value meal with full calorie soda is pretty close to 1500 calories. But I was talking 1500 calories per day, 18% would be 270. I know that's not entirely accurate, but I'm thinking about how much food I could actually eat in those 270 calories - stuff that would leave me feeling full instead of empty.

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Jesse S.
Fargo, ND     01/07/2010 4:33 PM

J R - If you're training for an event you probably aren't eating at Ruby Tuesday or stuffing your mouth with frozen microwave meals. At least I hope you'd take your athletic training a little more serious than that.

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Jesse S.
Fargo, ND     01/07/2010 4:32 PM

VJ. 2,000 calories per day is incredibly high for the average person. Most men should consume about 1,500 and women no less than 1,200. Obviously there are exceptions, but for argument's sake this is the norm.

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Don M.
01/07/2010 4:02 PM

Those counts could have been correct for the sample taken at the time. the later tests may also have been correct on the test sample. Counts may vary in as the calorie content is never going to be the same between two pieces of meat from different animals or 2 slices of bread from different batches and so on down the line. Just like protein content and nutritional value of grains and other crops vary from field to field and year to year.

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Cory T.
Fargo, ND     01/07/2010 3:58 PM

I'm in my mid 20's, I exercise vigorously everyday, and was about 155 pounds . About 2 weeks ago I started counting my calories to lose fat. I realized I was consuming an extra 200-500 calories per day; any fat I burned off from working out I put back on from over eating. Now I eat less than the recommended calories per day and I lost almost 5 pounds in those two weeks. This study basically says to me that I eat the recommended amount of calories per day. If this is true for restaurants; who's to say that other products are not under listing the calories on their products?

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Webbyj W.
Blanchard, ND     01/07/2010 3:01 PM

fasd s. I wouldn't mind seeing 18% less of a portion when I eat out. The serving you receive are already way more then they should be. I usually ask for a to go box right away and put half in the box for dinner the next day.

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