Just a milkshake with my meal….

Just a milkshake with my meal…. 🥤

If you’re grabbing a take away/food delivery or eating out at a fast food place you might fancy a milkshake with your meal. You may decide that you will skip dessert to save some calories and have the milkshake instead. You would probably assume they’re roughly similar calories too so it’s going to work out roughly equal.

The reality is they often aren’t. For example a dessert of two scoops of ice cream at GBK will cost about 250 calories depending on flavour. In contrast their lotus biscoff milkshake costs over 1000 calories! That’s more than some of the actual main dishes!

Now that’s not to say you shouldn’t have a milkshake of course – if you want to spend your calories on that then obviously do! But if you’re assuming the calories are similar to an ice cream dessert then you’d be grossly underestimating them.

This is why it’s so important to be aware of the calories in the foods you eat – that way you can make informed choices. So no matter how ‘good’ you think you are at eyeballing calories always double check and pay attention to your assumptions, because they’re not always correct.

Enjoy 🤗

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