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Best diet prepared foods
OK, here's another list. I call it my prepared food list. The foods
are all low cal. I don't call any whole product like oats prepared, even though they have been packaged. 1) Fiber one cereal- at only 60 cal for a half cup, it tastes good and gives youu 65% of the daily fiber. I mix it with a cup of puffed whole wheat and use just under a cup of skim milk for a total of 150 cal. for a delicious breakfast. Actually I eat this at least a couple of times a day. 2) The Jello sugar-free, fat-free instant pudding. I use it with skim milk for another low-cal treat. 3) Dill pickles, banana peppers, jalapeno's, mustard, horseraddish, hot sauces. These are all condiments/additions to veggie sandwiches and all are very low. Just make sure they haven't had any sugar or other sweetner added. Also, they are HIGH sodium, so I don't use too many of them. I would avoid any mayonaise or other oil/fat based condiments which add scads of calories to a sandwich. 2 dill slices contain about 5 cal. Of course you could just slice a cucumber and avoid the sodium altogether. 4) 8th Continent Light Chocolate Soy Drink. It is a wonderful chocolate milk like drink with only 90 cal per cup which is just 10 cal more than skim milk. 5) Promise fat-free margarine. 5 cal per tablespoon. 6) Natures Own LIGHT honey wheat bread. It isn't whole wheat, but they have taken out the fat and added fiber to reduce the cal. Each slice (which is full-sized) has only 40 cal. If you prefer whole wheat, Sarah Lee makes a Whole Wheat Light bread as well with 45 cal per slice, but the slices are slightly smaller. 7) Sugar-free, fat free yoghurt at 80 cal per 6-oz serving. I like blueberrie and cherry best. Walmart sells a generic brand that is good and cheap as well. 8) gum. I know it isn't food exactly, but it keeps your mouth busy. I have tried every brand of sugarless and by far the best to me is Extra Spearmint. It is softer and sweeter than any of the others. 9) If you have to eat potato chips, try the (Olestra) Light fat-free Pringles. They are a little more expensive....about $1.40 a tube, but they have half the cals of regular potato chips and taste pretty good.There are 70 cals in 15 chips. dkw |
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Best diet prepared foods
On Dec 5, 5:54 pm, " wrote:
OK, here's another list. I call it my prepared food list. The foods are all low cal. I don't call any whole product like oats prepared, even though they have been packaged. 1) Fiber one cereal- at only 60 cal for a half cup, it tastes good and gives youu 65% of the daily fiber. I mix it with a cup of puffed whole wheat and use just under a cup of skim milk for a total of 150 cal. for a delicious breakfast. Actually I eat this at least a couple of times a day. If I ate cereal and milk more than once a day, I'd start gaining weight. I keep Cheerios around as an out of hand snack. It's hard to eat that way. 2) The Jello sugar-free, fat-free instant pudding. I use it with skim milk for another low-cal treat. You make it with skim milk? Does it actually mix up? 3) Dill pickles, banana peppers, jalapeno's, mustard, horseraddish, hot sauces. These are all condiments/additions to veggie sandwiches and all are very low. Just make sure they haven't had any sugar or other sweetner added. Also, they are HIGH sodium, so I don't use too many of them. I would avoid any mayonaise or other oil/fat based condiments which add scads of calories to a sandwich. 2 dill slices contain about 5 cal. Of course you could just slice a cucumber and avoid the sodium altogether. I am on a low sodium diet and so can't eat any of these. There are low calorie and low cholesterol mayonaises that are just fine. Eating an actual cucumber will give you more fiber. 4) 8th Continent Light Chocolate Soy Drink. It is a wonderful chocolate milk like drink with only 90 cal per cup which is just 10 cal more than skim milk. 5) Promise fat-free margarine. 5 cal per tablespoon. 6) Natures Own LIGHT honey wheat bread. It isn't whole wheat, but they have taken out the fat and added fiber to reduce the cal. Each slice (which is full-sized) has only 40 cal. If you prefer whole wheat, Sarah Lee makes a Whole Wheat Light bread as well with 45 cal per slice, but the slices are slightly smaller. Regular, actually whole wheat bread doesn't have a lot of calories anyway. If you're trying to lose weight, you are probably not going to be eating a lot of bread anyway. 7) Sugar-free, fat free yoghurt at 80 cal per 6-oz serving. I like blueberrie and cherry best. Walmart sells a generic brand that is good and cheap as well. I only eat plain no-fat and low fat yogurt and add fruit to it manually. 8) gum. I know it isn't food exactly, but it keeps your mouth busy. I have tried every brand of sugarless and by far the best to me is Extra Spearmint. It is softer and sweeter than any of the others. 9) If you have to eat potato chips, try the (Olestra) Light fat-free Pringles. They are a little more expensive....about $1.40 a tube, but they have half the cals of regular potato chips and taste pretty good.There are 70 cals in 15 chips. I have never met anyone who could digest Olestra. I certainly can't and I get lots of exercise. It isn't worth it. I eat one white cheddar flavored popcorn cake when I get the urge to crunch something like that. 45 cal, relatively low sodium, portion controlled. I buy the 100cal packs of Chips Ahoy because they're the lowest in sodium. I also get Kalvi (?) crispbread crackers. About 45 cals each, high fiber, whole grain. Top with a little goat cheese and you get a lot of flavor. I eat the 15cal Popsicles. I got a box of Skinny Cow fudgesickles that are 50cal each. I'd rather eat real food anyday. So if I have a choice between a little real food and a lot of pseudo-food, I go with the real food. I've found that if they've taken out the fat and the sugar, then they've added salt. Susan B. |
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Best diet prepared foods
On Dec 6, 12:41 pm, sueb wrote:
On Dec 5, 5:54 pm, " wrote: OK, here's another list. I call it my prepared food list. The foods are all low cal. I don't call any whole product like oats prepared, even though they have been packaged. 1) Fiber one cereal- at only 60 cal for a half cup, it tastes good and gives youu 65% of the daily fiber. I mix it with a cup of puffed whole wheat and use just under a cup of skim milk for a total of 150 cal. for a delicious breakfast. Actually I eat this at least a couple of times a day. If I ate cereal and milk more than once a day, I'd start gaining weight. I keep Cheerios around as an out of hand snack. It's hard to eat that way. 2) The Jello sugar-free, fat-free instant pudding. I use it with skim milk for another low-cal treat. You make it with skim milk? Does it actually mix up? 3) Dill pickles, banana peppers, jalapeno's, mustard, horseraddish, hot sauces. These are all condiments/additions to veggie sandwiches and all are very low. Just make sure they haven't had any sugar or other sweetner added. Also, they are HIGH sodium, so I don't use too many of them. I would avoid any mayonaise or other oil/fat based condiments which add scads of calories to a sandwich. 2 dill slices contain about 5 cal. Of course you could just slice a cucumber and avoid the sodium altogether. I am on a low sodium diet and so can't eat any of these. There are low calorie and low cholesterol mayonaises that are just fine. Eating an actual cucumber will give you more fiber. 4) 8th Continent Light Chocolate Soy Drink. It is a wonderful chocolate milk like drink with only 90 cal per cup which is just 10 cal more than skim milk. 5) Promise fat-free margarine. 5 cal per tablespoon. 6) Natures Own LIGHT honey wheat bread. It isn't whole wheat, but they have taken out the fat and added fiber to reduce the cal. Each slice (which is full-sized) has only 40 cal. If you prefer whole wheat, Sarah Lee makes a Whole Wheat Light bread as well with 45 cal per slice, but the slices are slightly smaller. Regular, actually whole wheat bread doesn't have a lot of calories anyway. If you're trying to lose weight, you are probably not going to be eating a lot of bread anyway. 7) Sugar-free, fat free yoghurt at 80 cal per 6-oz serving. I like blueberrie and cherry best. Walmart sells a generic brand that is good and cheap as well. I only eat plain no-fat and low fat yogurt and add fruit to it manually. 8) gum. I know it isn't food exactly, but it keeps your mouth busy. I have tried every brand of sugarless and by far the best to me is Extra Spearmint. It is softer and sweeter than any of the others. 9) If you have to eat potato chips, try the (Olestra) Light fat-free Pringles. They are a little more expensive....about $1.40 a tube, but they have half the cals of regular potato chips and taste pretty good.There are 70 cals in 15 chips. I have never met anyone who could digest Olestra. I certainly can't and I get lots of exercise. It isn't worth it. I eat one white cheddar flavored popcorn cake when I get the urge to crunch something like that. 45 cal, relatively low sodium, portion controlled. I buy the 100cal packs of Chips Ahoy because they're the lowest in sodium. I also get Kalvi (?) crispbread crackers. About 45 cals each, high fiber, whole grain. Top with a little goat cheese and you get a lot of flavor. I eat the 15cal Popsicles. I got a box of Skinny Cow fudgesickles that are 50cal each. I'd rather eat real food anyday. So if I have a choice between a little real food and a lot of pseudo-food, I go with the real food. I've found that if they've taken out the fat and the sugar, then they've added salt. Susan B. I will look for Skinny cow products, esp the nonfat cheese. I can't eat much cause I am a little lactose intolerant and drink the Lactaid fat free milk, but I can eat a little lactose and get away with it. I understand your preference for real food. For me, I almost always seek LOTS of food, which translates into low cal which translates always into nonfat or very low fat and often high fiber. High water food items work well too, like the skim milk, celery, prepared oatmeal, etc. I keep asking myself would I like to eat a cookie at 200 cal.....one little cookie that would take me all of 20 seconds to snarf down and still be starving, or would I like to eat a serving of oatmeal with a cup of cranberries and blueberries mixed into it for the same 200 calories. Not even a close call for me. I do admire people who can eat a tiny bit of peanutbutter or a tiny piece of chocolate and feel satisfied, but that simply does not work for me, and never has. I want lots and lots of food. As long as a person watches their calorie intake very carefully and stops when they reach their allotment of calories, all diets work. One problem I see is that people who eat high fat foods can very easily misjudge the calories they are getting in the concentrated fatty foods. Hey, one celery stick more or less won't have much effect, maybe 3 calories or so, but a tablespoon or two of peanut butter more or mayonaise, or butter.. (it's never less, always more...been there/done that)...is 200-400 calories. dkw |
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Best diet prepared foods
On Dec 6, 12:41 pm, sueb wrote:
On Dec 5, 5:54 pm, " wrote: OK, here's another list. I call it my prepared food list. The foods are all low cal. I don't call any whole product like oats prepared, even though they have been packaged. 1) Fiber one cereal- at only 60 cal for a half cup, it tastes good and gives youu 65% of the daily fiber. I mix it with a cup of puffed whole wheat and use just under a cup of skim milk for a total of 150 cal. for a delicious breakfast. Actually I eat this at least a couple of times a day. If I ate cereal and milk more than once a day, I'd start gaining weight. I keep Cheerios around as an out of hand snack. It's hard to eat that way. 2) The Jello sugar-free, fat-free instant pudding. I use it with skim milk for another low-cal treat. You make it with skim milk? Does it actually mix up? 3) Dill pickles, banana peppers, jalapeno's, mustard, horseraddish, hot sauces. These are all condiments/additions to veggie sandwiches and all are very low. Just make sure they haven't had any sugar or other sweetner added. Also, they are HIGH sodium, so I don't use too many of them. I would avoid any mayonaise or other oil/fat based condiments which add scads of calories to a sandwich. 2 dill slices contain about 5 cal. Of course you could just slice a cucumber and avoid the sodium altogether. I am on a low sodium diet and so can't eat any of these. There are low calorie and low cholesterol mayonaises that are just fine. Eating an actual cucumber will give you more fiber. 4) 8th Continent Light Chocolate Soy Drink. It is a wonderful chocolate milk like drink with only 90 cal per cup which is just 10 cal more than skim milk. 5) Promise fat-free margarine. 5 cal per tablespoon. 6) Natures Own LIGHT honey wheat bread. It isn't whole wheat, but they have taken out the fat and added fiber to reduce the cal. Each slice (which is full-sized) has only 40 cal. If you prefer whole wheat, Sarah Lee makes a Whole Wheat Light bread as well with 45 cal per slice, but the slices are slightly smaller. Regular, actually whole wheat bread doesn't have a lot of calories anyway. If you're trying to lose weight, you are probably not going to be eating a lot of bread anyway. 7) Sugar-free, fat free yoghurt at 80 cal per 6-oz serving. I like blueberrie and cherry best. Walmart sells a generic brand that is good and cheap as well. I only eat plain no-fat and low fat yogurt and add fruit to it manually. 8) gum. I know it isn't food exactly, but it keeps your mouth busy. I have tried every brand of sugarless and by far the best to me is Extra Spearmint. It is softer and sweeter than any of the others. 9) If you have to eat potato chips, try the (Olestra) Light fat-free Pringles. They are a little more expensive....about $1.40 a tube, but they have half the cals of regular potato chips and taste pretty good.There are 70 cals in 15 chips. I have never met anyone who could digest Olestra. I certainly can't and I get lots of exercise. It isn't worth it. I eat one white cheddar flavored popcorn cake when I get the urge to crunch something like that. 45 cal, relatively low sodium, portion controlled. I buy the 100cal packs of Chips Ahoy because they're the lowest in sodium. I also get Kalvi (?) crispbread crackers. About 45 cals each, high fiber, whole grain. Top with a little goat cheese and you get a lot of flavor. I eat the 15cal Popsicles. I got a box of Skinny Cow fudgesickles that are 50cal each. I'd rather eat real food anyday. So if I have a choice between a little real food and a lot of pseudo-food, I go with the real food. I've found that if they've taken out the fat and the sugar, then they've added salt. Susan B. Oh ya, I didn't answer your question. Yes, it mixes with skim milk. You can't make Junket with skim milk, but instant pudding works well. Cereal is actually low cal so you could eat a lot of it with skim milk provided you eat things like the puffed whole wheat and whole rice with nothing else added except a couple of Splenda. Like I said the fiber 1 (1/2 cup) plus a cup of puffed wheat makes a nice snack. A little under half a cup (30 cal. of skim milk is plenty, since the cereal doesn't really soak up the milk) and that is only 150 calories. Granted, puffed wheat is not the same as corn pops, but it has only 60 cal per cup too, and I like the taste. It is a compromise though, but hey if we aren't willing to compromise somewhere, we would be back to 200+ lbs. I even taught myself to like tomatoes, so I can report from personal experience that food preference is a learned behavior. When you consider the fact some cultures eat raw seal eyeballs or blubber or bugs...and really love the stuff, you realize this is true. I only eat a few chips with Olestra and there are no ill effects. I would never eat packaged cookies for the reason I said....not enough food for the calories. 100 calorie packages are certainly a reasonable way to go though if you plan to eat cookies. It is kind of a gimick too since you could buy a larger bag a lot cheaper and figure 100 calories worth. I assume they are the same cookies, just delivered in a "value-added" package. That would be value added to the company though, certainly not to you, unless it allows you to somehow trick yourself into thinking you're eating more with those itsy-bitsy packages. dkw |
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