Nutrition – 1714 Calories
Today started out as any other weekend. Late breakfast, skipping morning snack then lunch. I went easy on the breakfast and lunch and I was thinking I might have enough extra calories to throw in an evening snack and indulge in some chocolate. Well that didn’t happen. My wife made chicken in her signature paprika sauce and something else that I haven’t eaten in the past 7 weeks: spaetzle. Spaetzle is a German type of egg noodle/mini dumpling. It is very simple to make and all it takes is flour and eggs and water mixed together to a smoot consistency then it’s chopped into tiny bits over boiling water with a grate. I love this stuff but knowing that it’s essentially refined pasta I have been staying away from it. Plus I had to do the calorie calculation on it to figure out just how much of it I could really eat.
Well today I did the math. I added up the total calories of the ingredients (flour, eggs, oil) and then measured the complete bowl of finished spaetzle’s weight to take the absorbed water’s weight into account when measuring. The total mixture was right at 2,000 grams. And It had 2,000 calories in it. I figured it’s 100 calories per 100 grams, not too bad, I can easily eat 200 grams of it and still do pretty good. Well it turned out I was wrong. While I did measure the empty bowl for tare before measuring but I forgot to subtract it from the 2,000 grams. The bowl weighed 650 grams so the finished spaetzle was only 1,350 grams and still 2,000 calories. So for 200 calories I was only supposed to have 135 grams of it instead of the 200 that I already ate. Doh! It’s a good thing I ate light all day and even this miscalculation let me stay within my calorie budget. And thanks to the eggs my protein numbers stayed solid. So yeah, I couldn’t eat chocolate today again but at least I didn’t blow my diet with the spaetzle and my wife was pretty happy that I ate what she cooked, wel I actually made the spaetzle but she made the fantastic chicken in paprika sauce.
