Wetherspoon Roast Beef meal, nutritional content

tobiascurious

I always thought a beef roast dinner was a nutritious, well-balanced, and therefore healthy meal.

But Wetherspoons roast beef meal has:

877 calories
11.7g sat fat (58.5% of RDA)
5.3g salt (88% of RDA)

This seems not really healthy. Is that because of the way they cook it? Would it be just as bad if you cooked it yourself at home?

Thanks

jennet1

I remember flicking through weight watchers points book and most of Wetherspoons stuff is really high in points

Clowance

Roast beef dinner healthy? NO. Tasty? Oh yes.
The beef is roasted in fat or oil, so are the potatoes. Gravy also has fat in it whether made from scratch or gravy granules. Yorkshires also cooked in a little fat/oil. Not to mention the carbs in yorks and roast pots. Veg are healthy however.
Have no idea if wetherspoons are worse than home though.

vicki+1

if you make a roast dinner at home, use fry light to roast your potatoes and parsnips in. veg is ok. chicken has lots fewer calories than beef and go easy on the yorkshire puds and instant gravy then you can make a roast dinner thats quite healthy

lynzpower

The main reason why pub meals like this are so nutritionally high in the nasties is because all processed off site ( ie you wont find someone in wetherspoons peeling potatoes!) I personally think that the roasties in 'spoons along with a few other pub chains are done in the deep fat fryer. I was told by someone who used to rn a pub in another major pub chain that the roastbeef comes in sachets that are microwaved ( like the Birds eye or findus ones you can buy in the supermaket)

:eek:

For a roast I only ever go to Independent pubs or Toby carvery- theres no doubting what the meat is in there, they carve it for you.

For making gravy it doesnt have to hat fat in it, I use stock ( eg kallo or oxo) with gravy salt ( such as comptons gravy salt) and a spoonful of flour.

moonrakerz

tobiascurious wrote: »

I always thought a beef roast dinner was a nutritious, well-balanced, and therefore healthy meal.

But Wetherspoons roast beef meal has:

877 calories
11.7g sat fat (58.5% of RDA)
5.3g salt (88% of RDA)

This seems not really healthy. Is that because of the way they cook it? Would it be just as bad if you cooked it yourself at home?

Thanks

Really, I cannot see what is wrong with that. A male (on average) needs 2500 calories a day, a female 2000.
If you have a bowl of cereal (weetabix, shredded wheat type) with fruit for breakfast.
Some crackers and grated cheese for lunch, then your Weatherspoons for dinner - a perfectly healthy diet WELL below your calorific and fat/salt limit.

If, after Weatherspoons, you head off to KFC, then McD's, then finish off with curry and chips on the way home from the pub that isn't exactly "healthy" then !

I have been calorie counting since March, limiting myself to 1500 cals a day.
Because I rarely have processed food I actually have to add salt to my food. I have lost 39 lbs so far !

Thanks for the tip on the meal at Weatherspoons - might give one a try ! My evening meal "allowance" is usually 900 - 1000 cals.

PS: BUT I think this might be a tiny bit unhealthy !

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/microsoft/6417027/Burger-Kings-Windows-7-Whopper-burger-1000-calories-seven-patties.html

Coopdivi

The salt content is very high. The cynic in me says that's to get you to drink more. But I can't see a great problem with it unless you're going to be eating in a Wetherspoons several times a week.

LizzieS_2

If you eat out at a quieter time of meal serving, it is much easier to guess how much is freshly cooked. The smaller menu choices in some outlets don't fool me into believing everything is fresh.