Counting Calories? Heres How Many Are in an Oatmeal Hot Cake!

Counting Calories?  Heres How Many Are in an Oatmeal Hot Cake!
Counting Calories? Heres How Many Are in an Oatmeal Hot Cake!

Okay, so I’ve been trying to watch what I eat lately, and breakfast is always a bit of a puzzle for me. I love a good hotcake, but those things can be calorie bombs! So, I started experimenting with oatmeal hotcakes because, you know, oatmeal is supposed to be healthy and all that. But then I got to thinking, how many calories are actually in these things?

First, I gathered my ingredients. I’m not much of a chef, so I kept it simple: rolled oats, a bit of milk, an egg, and some baking powder. I figured that’s the basic stuff, right? I tossed the oats into my blender to make it more like flour. This took a while cause my blender is pretty old, but it worked!

Then I mixed the dry and wet ingredients. I cooked them on a pan with a tiny bit of oil. I mean, they looked like regular hotcakes, just a bit denser. I made a small batch, just three little hotcakes, to test it out.

Counting Calories?  Heres How Many Are in an Oatmeal Hot Cake!
  • Rolled Oats: 1 cup (I read somewhere that this is about 150-160 calories)
  • Milk: Just a splash, maybe 1/4 cup? (Probably not many calories there, like 30?)
  • Egg: 1 (These are about 70 calories each, I think)
  • Baking Powder: Just a teaspoon (I doubt this has any significant calories)

After I cooked them, I was curious, so I did some quick searching. I found a bunch of websites with calorie calculators and some that just straight-up gave calorie counts for oatmeal. It was all a bit confusing, to be honest. One said 407 calories for a piece of oatmeal cake with icing, but mine didn’t have icing. Another said 154 calories for a cup of cooked oatmeal, but I was making hotcakes, not just a bowl of oatmeal.

Then, I did some math. Adding up the calories I knew: 160 (oats) + 30 (milk) + 70 (egg) = 260. I did divide it by three because I made three hotcakes. 260 divided by 3 is around 87 calories. So, each of my little hotcakes was probably a bit under 90 calories. Not too bad, I guess! I did read that 1 cup of cooked oatmeal has about 145 calories, so my hotcakes were close to that, give or take.

So, here’s what I figured out: a plain oatmeal hotcake, made with the simple stuff I used, is probably around 90-100 calories. Of course, it depends on the size and exactly what you put in it. I’m pretty happy with that. It’s a filling breakfast, and it doesn’t feel like I’m totally blowing my calorie budget first thing in the morning. I put some berries on top of mine, and it was pretty good! I might try adding some cinnamon next time.

Anyway, I just thought I’d share my little experiment. It’s not rocket science, but it helped me understand a bit more about what I’m eating. Hope this helps someone out there who’s also trying to figure out the whole healthy breakfast thing!

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