calories in mashed potatoes?!?

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calories in mashed potatoes?!?
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Sat, 08-06-2005 - 2:22pm

Hey girlz ;)


I use fitday.com, and I'm generally happy with the site...yesterday for supper, I had a cup of mashed potatoes...when I entered this on fitday, it came back as having OVER 700 CALORIES!!! (eep!)

    
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Sat, 08-06-2005 - 3:19pm

I would re-check your FitDay calculation to make sure. I'm getting calorie counts of under 300 calories for 1 cup of mashed potatoes, depending on how they are prepared.

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Sat, 08-06-2005 - 4:53pm

Thanks for the suggestion, Jess.

    
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Sat, 08-06-2005 - 7:36pm
Hmmmm...when I put it in Fitday, home prepared with whole milk and butter added, for one cup I get 222.6 calories, for box prepared I got 716....I seriously hope yours were made from real potatoes....is there anyway to find out?

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Sat, 08-06-2005 - 11:33pm

Kerstin,


I work in a nursing home, and they use alot of processed and "just add water" types of foods...they don't taste like "real" mashed potatoes...I'll bet anything they're the granules.

    
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Mon, 08-08-2005 - 11:01am

Hey Lori:

You're not going to believe this, and will probably feel just as silly about it as I did when I figured it out!

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Mon, 08-08-2005 - 1:22pm

Actually, I eat them dehydrated all the time ;)


Golly...what a dumbbell! (me) LOL


Thanks for the info ::sheepish grin::


~Lori

    
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Mon, 08-08-2005 - 1:32pm
I KNOW!

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Mon, 08-08-2005 - 1:41pm

I vote that your mom gets an award like "Food Guru of the Year" or something like that :)


We can't really blame ourselves...I mean, c'mon...it wasn't really *our* fault