[Sca-cooks] Dieting

[Betsy Marshall]

1 pound = 454 grams (x4 cals/gram)= 1816 calories ?!? 
there is a flaw in here somewhere...

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[mailto:sca-cooks-bounces at ansteorra.org] On Behalf Of Tara Sersen
Boroson
Sent: Friday, November 28, 2003 10:20 AM
To: Cooks within the SCA
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Dieting


> A plain baked potato has 100 calories... that is a VERY low calorie 
> food and it is misinformation to say otherwise.  I did NOT say it was 
> a low carbohydrate food.


Maybe if you're eating little baby red potatoes.  According to the 
Complete Book of Food Counts, a 4-3/4"x2-1/3" potato has 212 calories.  
That is a fairly small potato.  If you're eating one of the one-pound 
potatoes they advertise at some chain restaurants, I'd estimate they are

about 7"x4".  You're looking at at least 500 calories for one of those 
behemoths, and probably 300-400 for a normal, large roasting potato.

-Magdalena

-- 
Tara Sersen Boroson

You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him to find it for
himself. - Galileo Galilei 


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