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Six grams of fat equals 54 fat calories (because fats have 9 calories per gram). What you care about is how much of the calories in these egg rolls comes from fat. So - what is the total calorie count per egg roll? Then look at the calorie count from fat per egg roll. That is the number you want to be under 25% or so.
Example - the egg roll has 300 calories. 54 of those calories are from fat. That's only 1/6th the total calorie count, or less than 20%, so no problem. But if that eggroll only has 100 calories, and 54 are from fat, that means more than half of that eggroll is pure fat. Too much!
As a really general rule, try to keep your fat calories to less than 100 per snack, and less than 200 per meal. That's about 1 tablespoon of fat for those 100 calories. If you actually measure out 1 T of oil, you'll see that that's a pretty good amount, and you don't want to eat more than that all at once. This is a really general rule, okay? Things will vary by how much you're eating, how much soluble fiber, etc. But IN GENERAL, if the fat calories are over 100 per serving for the label you're reading, that's too much.
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Easy -- for WHO?
#36687 - 01/11/04 04:38 PM
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Girlfriend, this is SOOO not easy! You're good at it -- obviously you've had some experience, eh?
Okay, you take that 300 calorie figure and divide it by 54 (the fat calories) to get 18%, is that right? (Oh, I can just see Kandee right now -- wondering how I ever graduated high school!)
So, okay, one egg roll has 160 calories and 6 grams of fat. That means the percentage of fat in that one egg roll is 34%, right? Do I finally have it? (Heather, you must go through the grocery store with a list in one hand and a calculator in the other!)
Anyone out there want 10 boxes of egg rolls?
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Bev - Check your label more closely. All USA food labels have to give the number of calories and the number of fat calories. You don't even need to look at fat grams, and calculate the calories from that. The label will already say.
So, you're really just taking the total calories divided by fat calories. When I do this in my head (and yeah, I've been doing it for a while  ) I round off all the numbers. Your egg rolls numbers of 160 calories and and 54 fat calories I'd automatically round to 150 and 50. So, dividing 150 by 50 in your head is easy, and you get 1/3, or 33%.
That's definitely the max you'd ever want for fat, and I'd have some extra soluble fiber with the rolls. No need to toss them out, just have with some steamed rice, or a rice noodle dish, etc.
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Bingo.
#36709 - 01/11/04 06:53 PM
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Oh that's a GREAT idea! Serve them with RICE! DUH. Maybe a little canned pineapple? 
Thanks, Heather! Damn you're good!
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Not rocket science, really. Good info for everyone to learn. But I have to admit to being real lazy and JUST knowing how much total fat I can have at any one time so not to set myself up for an attack. (I'm not that fond of grocery stores to spend my entire day in them calculating fat calories in each food I buy.)
I'm lazy and count total fat not fat calories. I know that for me, I HAVE to keep a meal's fat total to no more than around 6 grams. At 10 it's pushing it. A snack..1-3. Works for me so that's what I use.
In the case of your egg rolls, one would be enough. The rest would be non-fat foods, like lots of rice.
KK
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I don't get it. I'm a mathphobic. We need a little
card that breaks it down a bit. You know like those
little cards that tell you how much to tip.
This is just to much for a dummy like me.
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I'm with you, Val. Heather's just incredible. My hubby has a little tiny calculator with a side pocket in the case. I'm gonna steal it from him, then use the side pocket for my grocery list. As I go down the aisles, I'm just gonna compute all the stuff I need -- and nothing gets put in the basket unless it's under 25%.
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Wanna come shopping with me and do mine too? 
KK
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Your better than I am. I wouldn't even know how to
do it on a calculator.
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Heather what kind of baked frozen shrimp eggrolls?
Bev, what kind of frozen eggrolls?
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