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From now through the New Year you’ll spend a good deal of your free time drinking too much while finding new ways to evade small talk at obligatory social events. Between your office party, your wife’s office party, Christmas Eve at your in-laws, and hometown dinner with those old friends from high school you’re not _that _excited to see, the calendar fills up quick. And you will be tempted to lubricate the awkwardness with eggnog. But before you ladle yourself some of that festive punch, think about this: one cup of store-bought eggnog has 343 calories. That’s a creamy, eight-ounce caloric nightmare.
Just to put it in perspective, we found 25 foodstuffs—some healthy options, some terrible for you—with fewer calories than one mug of nog.
Burger King Whopper Jr., 300 calories
McDonald’s BBQ Ranch Burger, 340 calories
An entire cup of half and half, 315 calories
Five cups of chopped raw onions, 320 calories
A 20 oz. bottle of Coke, 240 calories
Three tablespoons of Hellman’s mayonnaise, 270 calories
Five cups of Almond Breeze almond milk, 300 calories
Five Kraft Singles slices, 300 calories
Two packages of astronaut Neapolitan ice cream, 240 calories
Three servings of Lucky Charms (without milk), 330 calories
10 cups of chopped raw kale, 330 calories
Five Strawberry Banana Burst Go-Gurts, 300 calories
Two servings of McCann’s Steel Cut Irish oatmeal, 300 calories
One Slice of Domino’s Philly Cheese Steak Legends Pizza, 290 calories
Three bananas, 330 calories
Two White Castle sliders, 280 calories
Six cups of chopped raw carrots, 312 calories
Two bottles of Miller High Life, 286 calories
Five bottles of Miller 64, 320 calories
Four hard-boiled eggs, 312 calories
One Peanut Butter Carob Neutron edible weed bar (keep out of reach of children and pets), 219 calories
A small Wendy’s Frosty, 340 calories
11 tablespoons of sour cream, 330 calories
One serving of a Bloomin’ Onion, 327 calories
A double Manhattan, 260 calories
****Let’s just say we’ll stick to bourbon.
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