We should be watching calories at the cinema

I was thinking the exact same thing! Unless you go to the movies every day and consume this type of caloric food on a daily basis, why feel guilty over the calories on an occasion out? Surely it’s the same argument for all unhealthy store bought products. And the last time I checked, the ticket holders at the cinema weren’t shoving the high calorie treats down your throat… just have some portion control if you are worried about the calories consumed!

I also think personally Cineworld, Odeon and Vue and all other cinemas should be the ones feeling guilty making us pay such high costs for these treats, not us to made feel guilty for enjoying them on a night out! Going to the cinema has turned from being an under £10 night out to £20 or more for a movie, soda and popcorn, and that’s before even treating a date! … but don’t get me started on that.

There is a possibility that if we were informed of the amount of calories, salt and fat in “cinema” food and what proportion these amounts represent, we might be tempted to buy the small portion instead of the regular or especially the large.

I think that a cinema stating that taking one’s own food isn’t allowed is completely out of order! Like CMF0530 I think that the money charged for the treats is far too high. I used to buy a (small!) packet of M&Ms at the grocer’s round the corner before going in the cinema. Nobody was going to check where I’d bought it when the lights were out. I would stick the grapes in a tupperware box, Shefalee, and only wait until the lights go out before you open it. And if you get caught, write to your local paper about it. If this happened in Edinburgh the Evening News would love to hear about it and the cinema would be shamed into changing its rules, or at least bring the price of the cinema food down, and perhaps offer healthier options beside all the junk?

The cinemas will never reduce their food prices, and quite frankly, as said before, I’m not forced into buying the high priced food, so I don’t. I am glad though, that others do buy it and that when they do, the Cinema makes a huge profit, because without the extortionate food prices I’d be pretty worried about their chances of staying open.

I’d rather that it was the optional extras, as it were, that were high in price rather than the tickets. They have to make their money some how, and it really is an either/or situation.

Are we denied some fun? Going to the cinema is fun and a treat. Counting calories on such an occasion is the last thing we do. Do all those people who want calories displayed do the same when they go to a good restaurant where most food is prepared using butter, cream and alcohol? It is time that we stop talking about calories, may be that will reduce people getting fatter by the day. Nothing else seem to work.

i know this thread is old but do you remember what the nutritional profiles of the salted popcorn varieties were?

I think many of the people commenting on here are missing the point. It has gone from being about treats to being about price and that was never what this article was about. If you wanna treat then have one. If you are that concerned my food prices and ticket prices the simple answer is dont go, dont buy tickets and dont buy food, that way you wont have to worry yourselves about these” huge prices”. I would love a ferrari however I dont want to pay the price so I dont have one, same principle applie here. I love going to the movies and to be frank there isnt alot you can do with £20 these days anyway, so a good movies, some nice treats is money well spent. Enjoy your movies, especially the tight people on here.