Count Your Calories Intake: Mc Donald's

Here's the first of the series on learning to count the calories of the food that we eat. Learning to count calories is essential to weight management. I attended a talk recently about weight management and the speaker made a good analogy on counting calories to budgetting our money. If we have a budget of only 1500 kcal per day, how should we spend it wisely?

For the initial blog on this topic, I went to Mc Donald's to find out the calories of the food they serve. If you look at the other side of the paper placemat on the tray, you can find such information.

Some of my favorites:

Food	Energy (kcal)	Total Fat (g)
Big Mac	510	28
Fillet o Fish	330	14
Mc Chicken	420	20
French Fries (Medium)	360	17
Chicken Mg Nuggets (6 pieces)	330	23
Deluxe Breakfast (Mc Donald's)	660	45
Apple Pie (Mc Donald's)	240	13
Chocolate Sundae (Mc Donald's)	250	10