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KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Hungry to know what the Kansas City Chiefs eat in a day?
Celebrity nutritionist Leslie Bonci recently revealed what the team’s pre-game meals are and how much they eat in a given day.
In an interview with BetKansas, Bonci said fans shouldn’t assume the players, including Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce, eat 10,000 calories each day.
How much do the Chiefs eat?
“When we are looking at football players, don’t assume they eat 10,000 calories a day because they don’t,” Bonci shared. “In general, QBs like Patrick Mahomes eat, at the most, 3,000 calories a day, and not everyone eats five times a day.”
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According to 2021’s statistics report by the United Nations (UN) Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Europe and North America consumed the most calories in 2021, averaging about 3,500 calories per day.
She also noted that the calorie intake also depends on the particular player.
“Some players don’t have an appetite in the mornings and aren’t necessarily eating a lot at lunch because they’re training,” she continued.
What do the Chiefs eat?
Bonci revealed that a lot of the guys on the team love fish, BBQ, and breakfast foods.
“I wouldn’t say it’s a superstition, but players are creatures of habit and there are some that like breakfast foods even if it’s on a night game because that’s their comfort food,” she said, adding, “They want an egg sandwich, pancakes, a waffle or French Toast.”
During the week, meals usually consist of fish and chicken. Red meat comes in third.
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“For our team, they practice after lunch, so they typically don’t eat an enormous lunch because it doesn’t feel good when you have to practice on the field after eating a large volume of food,” Bonci revealed. “More likely, they do eat breakfast before 8:30, lunch is between 12-1 p.m. and then they’re on the field at 1 pm. so they have options to come back up into the cafeteria and get something after practice.”
She said some people make the mistake and eat too much and they don’t feel good on the field.
She added, “Once you try that, you learn your lesson really fast.”
In terms of sweet treats, she said most players do that on their own personal time, since desserts are not put out regularly.
This story was reported from Los Angeles.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Bates County Circuit Court judge Friday sentenced a Linn County, Kansas, man in connection with the December 2025 death of Airen Andula, 13.
Damon Leonard, 47, was sentenced to four years in prison for abandonment of a corpse, according to court records.
He pleaded guilty to the charge of abandoning a corpse on May 22.
Andula disappeared from his Pleasanton, Kansas, home on Dec. 21, 2025. A day later, law enforcement found the boy’s body in a ravine in Bates County, Missouri. He had died from multiple dog bite injuries.
Police were led to the boy’s body after a phone call from Leonard.
Court documents said Leonard “admitted that he transported the deceased child from Kansas to Missouri and left the body in the bottom of the creek” before he returned home.
KSHB 41 reporter Fernanda Silva spoke with Andula’s family earlier this week — after the guilty plea and ahead of Friday’s sentencing.
His family shared that the guilty plea brought a small sense of justice, but it didn’t do much to ease the pain of their loss.
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“We’re missing our kid every day of our lives,” the boy’s father Charles Andula told Silva.
Leonard received credit for time served of 158 days in his sentence, per court records.
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TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) – It may not seem like a lot of relief, but gas and diesel prices have declined over the past week.
Friday morning’s national average for a gallon of unleaded gas was $4.39, according to the Automobile Association of America.
That’s down three cents from $4.42 on Thursday; down 16 cents from a week ago; but was up 17 cents from $4.22 a month ago and up $.23 from $3.16 a year ago.
In Kansas, AAA says, unleaded gas on Friday was averaging $3.96 a gallon — down four cents from $4.00 on Thursday; down 13 cents from $3.96 a week ago; but up 26 cents from $3.70 a month ago; and up $1.07 over $2.89 a year ago.
Diesel fuel also was dropping in price. AAA says Friday’s national average for a gallon of diesel was $5.52 a gallon — down three cents from $5.55 on Thursday; down 12 cents from $5.64 a week a go; but up six cents from $5.46 a month ago and up $1.98 from $3.54 a year ago.
Kansas diesel fuel prices, according to AAA, checked in at an average of $4.98 on Friday. That’s five cents below $5.03 on Thursday; down 16 cents from $5.14 a week ago; but up 24 cents over $4.74 a month ago; and up $1.72 from $3.26 a year ago.
In Topeka, GasBuddy.com on Friday morning showed unleaded gas prices ranging between $3.77 and $4.09 in Topeka, with diesel fuel going for between $4.94 and $5.29 a gallon.
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