100g of vegetables?

MorganLange508
MorganLange508 Posts: 28 Member
in Food and Nutrition
Hi everyone! I'm just asking a few questions on weighing food. I had a bunch of vegetables for dinner the other night and I weighed out 100g of zucchini, yellow squash, tomatoes, onions, and some bell peppers and realized that was ALOT of veggies! I saw that they were all under 50 calories and I still don't believe that they were all under that, so I'm just asking is this true? I'm new to weighing since I used to use measuring cups! Thank you!

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  • AJ_G
    AJ_G Posts: 4,158 Member
    Yea, sounds about right, 100 calories of broccoli is like 35 calories.
  • callsitlikeiseeit
    callsitlikeiseeit Posts: 8,626 Member
    veggies are very low calorie. sounds right to me.

  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,207 Member
    Veggies are awesome low calories.
  • suziecue20
    suziecue20 Posts: 567 Member
    edited February 2016
    Root veggies are more calories. I love carrots but they are twice the calories of broccoli, courgettes and green beans :( Flipping sugar!
  • _Terrapin_
    _Terrapin_ Posts: 4,301 Member
    suziecue20 wrote: »
    Root veggies are more calories. I love carrots but they are twice the calories of broccoli, courgettes and green beans :( Flipping sugar!

    Beets, turnips, parsnips, white potato, sweet potato........like this?

  • Sued0nim
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
    MorganLange508 wrote: »
    Hi everyone! I'm just asking a few questions on weighing food. I had a bunch of vegetables for dinner the other night and I weighed out 100g of zucchini, yellow squash, tomatoes, onions, and some bell peppers and realized that was ALOT of veggies! I saw that they were all under 50 calories and I still don't believe that they were all under that, so I'm just asking is this true? I'm new to weighing since I used to use measuring cups! Thank you!

    It's true

    but I have to say I'm a bit stunned by you believing 100g of vegetables was a lot

    a single tomato weighs around 60g IME

    when I make vegetable stew which has many of the ingredients in your list but cooked, a portion is 500g and that's with rice an cheese on top (100g rice, 10g cheese, 500g veg stew = 305 calories)
  • Sued0nim
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
    150g savoy cabbage is about 30 calories or so .. and takes up half my huge dinner plate
  • jemhh
    jemhh Posts: 14,261 Member
    edited February 2016
    Yep, it's true. Just had 106g tomatoes with my breakfast and it was 29 calories.
  • elaineamj
    elaineamj Posts: 347 Member
    Got my scale yesterday and I've been pretty amazed since I started weighing :)
  • CooCooPuff
    CooCooPuff Posts: 4,374 Member
    edited February 2016
    I love setting up a big bowl for spinach and weighing out 100g.

    Lots of foods pleasantly surprised me when I started weighing, ice cream and veggies being the big ones. :blush:
  • lemurcat12
    lemurcat12 Posts: 30,886 Member
    Yep, they are super low cal.

    100 grams really isn't that much (except maybe for something like spinach or arugula). I put more than that in a two egg omelet frequently and the eggs can cover the vegetables without problem.

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