St Martin's Day food calories, highest first
This is the food of St Martin's Day, 11 November, ranked by calories per portion, from the Poznań croissant at 860 kcal to a mandarin at 35.
Numbers for the portion shown, the same as on each food's page. Sports are for someone of about 70 kg.
St Martin is kept across Europe: goose with red cabbage and dumplings in Germany, Czechia and Denmark, lanterns and sweets for the children in the Netherlands and Germany, chestnuts and new wine in Italy, Portugal and Croatia, and the rogal croissant in Poznań.
The rogal leads at 860, then roast goose at 400, a bag of gummy bears at 343, a Weckmann or a duck breast at 300 and two dumplings at 260. A full goose plate with cabbage and two dumplings is 400 plus 110 plus 260, so 770.
Ten roasted chestnuts and a mug of mulled wine are 200 each, a glass of wine 125. At the light end are red cabbage at 110, a lollipop at 40 and a mandarin at 35.
Questions
How many calories in a St Martin's goose dinner?
About 770: a portion of goose at 400, red cabbage at 110 and two potato dumplings at 260.
What is eaten on St Martin's Day?
Roast goose or duck with red cabbage and dumplings, the Weckmann in Germany, the rogal in Poznań, and chestnuts with new wine in the south.
How many calories in roasted chestnuts?
About 200 for ten.
What is the lightest St Martin's treat?
A mandarin at 35, or a lollipop from the lantern walk at 40.