I’m much more conscious of calories these days. Previously, I was on a low carb diet where I didn’t do any calorie counting. Now I’ve reintroduced some carbs on gym days and I count the calories. On an ideal day, I keep them below 2000.

I take Saturdays off from dieting but for the next few months I need to pay a bit more attention to my cheat day. Of course, pie and mash is one of the things I have on Saturday. Arments provide a delivery service across the UK for pies, as do many shops. Arments also publish nutritional information about their pies. These are good estimates of the calories in pie and mash for most shops. Obviously, it won’t be precise, but guidelines are usually enough. Here is the information compiled from their site:

Item Typical Weight Calories Protein Carbs Sugars Fibre Salt
Steak Pie 160g 377.6 16.16g 32g 1.44g 3.52g 2.032g
Liquor 200g 60 2.4g 12.6g 0.2g 1g 1.8g
Mash 200g 167.2 3.6g 36.8g 0.2g 2.8g 0.52g

which means roughly speaking:

Item Calories Protein Carbs Sugars Fibre Salt
Single single 604.8 22.16g 81.4g 1.84g 7.32g 4.352g
Double double 1209.6 44.32g 162.8g 3.68g 14.64g 8.704g

I will be switching to a single single, or maybe double pie and single mash going forward.