The salad bar at Jason's Deli has yummy gingerbread muffins. When I was looking up the damage of a macademia nut cookie (a yikes-worthy 340 calories), I also looked up the calories in these bad boys: 220 calories.
Now 220 calories may not seem all that bad for a muffin. Certainly there are muffins that have more calories than that (e.g. anything from Otis Spunkmeyer), though all the ones I make personally are between 100 and 170 calories.
But these muffins are mini-muffins and the 220 calories only buys you 1 oz of food. Or so they say. But wait, butter, which is the most calorie-dense food there is, has 204 calories per oz. Something is whacked. And as Robert just pointed out looking at Jason's nutrition data for this, the 31 g item contains 10.5 g of fat, 29 g of carb, and 2.6 g of protein.
So, despite the company publishing nutritional information, I still don't know just how calorie dense these things are. But I feel confident that it's a lot more calories than it's worth.
By contrast, my full-sized banana oat bran muffins contain 130 calories, weigh 2.75 oz, and are 47.3 calories per ounce.
And for a calorie-free sweet treat, take a look at this amazing Muppet Show cake! (via Tam)
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It is so frustrating to eat out even for just something small to nosh on. If we can make tasty, healthy, lower calorie goodies at home why can't Jason's Deli or any other place?
Those muffins at Jason's deli are super delicious. And I guess if the small size helps you eat only one or two rather than an entire muffin, rather than being an invitation to fill up a whole plat full of them (as I've been known to do, and also with the jalapeno cornbread), it works out all right.
But yeah. Sometimes restaurant food is shockingly high in calories, as we've both found over and over.
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