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Calories · American & British

Calories in a chip butty

A typical restaurant serving of a chip butty (chip-shop chips (150 g) in two slices of buttered white bread, about 240 g) is about 570 calories, usually 450–800.

Restaurant portions vary; this is a typical estimate, not a label. Also called chip sandwich, chip barm, chip sarnie, chip roll.

~570
Chip butty

The usual range

Drawn on one 0–2,000 scale shared by every dish page, so plates compare at a glance.

Protein, carbs and fat

  • Protein12 g
  • Carbs87 g
  • Fat22 g

One serving

Serving
chip-shop chips (150 g) in two slices of buttered white bread
Weight
~240 g
Per 100 g
~238

The dish

About a chip butty

A chip butty is hot chip-shop chips in buttered white bread or a soft roll — starch on starch, with the chips bringing the fat. From UK CoFID values: 150 g of chips is about 320, two slices of white bread about 175 and a 10 g spread of butter about 75, so about 570 in all.

Ways it comes

One dish, a few numbers

Chip butty · rough numbers

  • Without butter~500

What moves the number

Why one plate is 450 and another 800

  • Portion of chips
  • Butter on the bread
  • Bread: sliced white, a soft roll or a barm cake

Ordering lighter

If you want a lighter plate

  • Skip the butter
  • Fill it with half the chips and share the rest
  • Pick a smaller roll

Side by side

Next to other American & British dishes

American & British · typical restaurant servingAll about American & British food →

  • Mimosa~120one 6 oz mimosa: sparkling wine and orange juice · usually 80–150
  • Glass of red wine~130one standard 5 oz pour · usually 100–230
  • Green bean casserole~130one cup of green bean casserole · usually 60–190
  • Yorkshire pudding~130one large pub-style Yorkshire pudding (about 60 g) · usually 60–350
  • Pint of beer~210one 16 oz US pint of regular beer · usually 100–280
  • Scotch egg~270one standard Scotch egg (113 g) · usually 220–450
  • Hot dog~300one beef hot dog in a white bun with mustard · usually 250–650
  • Mashed potatoes and gravy~300one cup of restaurant mashed potatoes with gravy · usually 150–450
  • Gumbo~330one restaurant bowl, about 1½ cups, with rice · usually 220–430
  • Mac and cheese~340one restaurant side, roughly a heaped cup · usually 250–1,000
  • Clam chowder~350one bowl of New England chowder, about 1½ cups · usually 200–900
  • Sausage roll~350one bakery sausage roll in flaky pastry · usually 250–550

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How these numbers were made

Method and sources

Last reviewed

Restaurant portions and cooking vary, so these are typical estimates for one serving, built from the sources below. Treat it as a rough number: your plate may land anywhere in the range.

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AI helped draft this page; every number was checked against the sources.

  1. UK CoFID 2021 (McCance and Widdowson's Composition of Foods) — Potato chips, fried in commercial oil, from takeaway fish and chip shops, code 13-485
  2. UK CoFID 2021 (McCance and Widdowson's Composition of Foods) — Bread, white, sliced, code 11-980
  3. UK CoFID 2021 (McCance and Widdowson's Composition of Foods) — Bread rolls, white, soft, code 11-1006
  4. UK CoFID 2021 (McCance and Widdowson's Composition of Foods) — Butter, salted, code 17-685

Questions

Questions people ask.

How many calories are in a chip butty?

A typical restaurant serving of a chip butty (chip-shop chips (150 g) in two slices of buttered white bread, about 240 g) is about 570 calories, usually 450–800. The number depends mostly on the portion and how it is cooked.

How many calories in a chip butty?

About 570 for 150 g of chip-shop chips in two slices of buttered white bread.

Is a chip barm or roll different?

About the same: a 70 g soft white roll is close to two slices of bread, so it is still about 570.

How much does the butter add?

About 75 for a 10 g spread, so skipping it brings a chip butty to about 500.

What changes the calories in a chip butty?

Portion of chips. Butter on the bread.

How can I order a chip butty lighter?

Skip the butter. Fill it with half the chips and share the rest.

Can PlateDiary show calories for the dishes I eat out?

Yes, if you want it to: calories in PlateDiary are off unless you turn them on. Switch them on and each dish you save from a photo of the table gets one rough “~” number you can accept or change.