CalorieKing and Pei Wei
I have to admit I'm not overly concerned about calories -- isn't hollandaise one of the four basic food groups? -- but I do love...
the CalorieKing website. What's great about it is you can get nutritional information about chain restaurant food as well as more generic stuff.
I was reminded of it when RvnGrl posted a recommendation for a burrito from Chipotle as a dinner to take on a plane. It sounded good to me.
Anyway, the nutritionist I work with on my Make Over My Meal series, Robin Spence, once described a delicious Chipotle burrito she had had for lunch earlier (and to be healthful she had left off the sour cream). But she couldn't figure out why she felt so full hours later.
She went to CalorieKing.com and found that her one burrito contained 690 calories.
A post from Kevin said he got reliable carryout from Pei Wei, an Asian chain I had never tried, so yesterday I stopped by the one on York Road for lunch and had the Vietnamese chicken salad roll: shredded chicken, lettuce, mint, carrot, peanuts, lime vinaigrette, rice noodles, wrapped in rice paper for $6.25. Pretty good, but the same thing. I felt full for several hours, which was puzzling because it didn't seem caloric.
Indeed, when I went to CalorieKing.com just now, I found the chicken salad roll had only 280 calories. Maybe it was the 3 grams of protein that filled me up. Or, OK, the sweet dipping sauce (70 calories for two ounces). And maybe I had a fortune cookie (30 calories) or two.
