The portion that I cut for myself actually weighs 168g, this is my partners half. Banana for scale though! Fillings are mushroom and onion. These quiches are so good, they sell fast so we were happy to snag one for our Sunday brunch.
When logging my meal in, I tried to find just a generic plain quiche in Cronometer. When I entered in the amount that I weighed it said it would be 444kcal, 17g protein, 23g carbs and 30g of fat. My allowance for fat macros is 35g. That just feels like, say it ain't so, don't do this to me man!! T_T
5 stages of grief I am telling you!! I keep coming back to denial. Am I delusional for thinking I couldn't possibly have had that much?? I feel like I ate the equivalent of 4 mini quiches which would have been a different count. Maybe I should be logging that as my reference??
by EntrepreneurMiddle45
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Just eat the damn quiche
Missing macros won’t stop me eating something if I know I’ll enjoy it. Generally I try and treat them all as minimum targets (after all, our bodies do still need fats!) and if I have a few days where fat is hitting first or is getting over, I just examine what I’ve been eating and think about making some mindful choices, probably eating some more big salads with the things that have that fat in.
Im glad the banana was just for scale bc at first I was like why you wasting those calories????
I mean its always nice to meet your macros but the world won’t end if you mess up one day, glad you enjoyed your quiche
I made quiche this week and I would be surprised if those generic macros are anywhere near correct. I highly doubt it has that much protein, for one thing. An 9-inch quiche (with 2 cups of filling like veg, cheese, meat) is 4 eggs, 1/2 c milk, and 1/2 cup heavy cream. (I’m sure there’s variation on that but 1 extra egg would add 1 g protein per slice so not much). There’s no protein in the crust really. I made a broccoli-cheese quiche with 1 cup of cheese and the protein macros came out to a little over 9 g of protein for 1/6 of the whole pie. Your quiche doesn’t have cheese so you’re just looking at protein in the egg custard. Sorry to be a debbie downer.
Quiche is pretty easy to make though and keeps great in the fridge for a few days. Mine was 312 cal/slice and I ate it for three days with some baked chicken breast for dinner. One day I needed to up my calories and the quiche was great topped with black beans, salsa, ad a little sour cream.
Wow 35g of fat total for a day? I do 70g of fat because it helps me feel full enough to stick to 1200 calories. You must have some steel willpower.
Why in the world do you restrict fat so much?
I would miss my healthy fats so much. Do you just never eat avocados, coconut, nuts, etc?