Christmas Day Calories – Ever wondered how many calories you eat on Xmas day?
Here’s a list of Christmas day calories for meals and snacks like Christmas dinner, Christmas cake, Xmas pudding and all the trimmings we consume on that fateful day. One person can easily eat 6000 calories that’s 3 times what we should eat in one day!
Calorie Count for Christmas Food
CHRISTMAS DINNER
Roast turkey (90g) – 149 calories
Roast potatoes (85g) – 127 calories
Stuffing (100g) – 231 calories
Bread sauce (45g) – 42 calories
Roast parsnips (90g) – 102 calories
Boiled carrots – 14 calories
Boiled Brussels sprouts – 32 calories
Gravy (50g) – 17 calories
Cranberry sauce (30g) – 45 calories
Pork sausage (20g) – 62 calories
Bacon (40g) – 135 calories
TOTAL: 956 calories
Puddings and Desserts
1 slice of Christmas cake (70g) – 249 calories
1 portion of chocolate log (30g) – 101 calories
1 portion of cheese and biscuits – 394 calories
1 portion of mixed nuts (40g) – 243 calories
1 portion Christmas pudding (100g), custard and brandy butter – 587 calories
1 mince pie and double cream – 368 calories
Snacks
3 Quality Streets – 133 calories
5 Chocolate Fingers – 150 calories
Average Selection Box – 1,111 calories
1 portion of mixed nuts (40g) – 243 calories
Trimmings often eaten at Christmas
Turkey and stuffing sandwich with cranberry jelly (2 slices of bread with butter) – 435 calories
Christmas Ham – 115 Calories (100g)
What we should Eat
Recommended calories per day:
Age 15 to 18: 2,775 (male), 2,110 (female)
Adults: 2,550 (male), 1,940 (female)
If you are brave enough to check how your Christmas day calories intake matches up to your personalised recommended daily calorie intake, use our BMR calculator, but be warned, you may be in for quite a shock.
On average, we put on 4lbs between Christmas Eve and New Year’s Day after consuming twice our recommended calorie intake and it can take until Easter to undo that ‘damage’. Get started now by checking out this fast weight loss New Year diet.
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