Healthy alternative to chips

juliebowman4

Fellow chip lover here!

Special K cracker chips are close.....and they come in chip-like flavours.
But you haffta count/weigh them out. Aprox 18 chips for 80 cal. 36-40 chips is a small bowl full and is only 160-175ish cal.
Not bad for something that tastes pretty close to chips.

neldabg

Quest chips aren't different too much calorie-wise from a single serving of regular chips, but if you're craving chips and need to hit your protein goal for the day, they'll do. I personally did not like the salt & vinegar flavor, but I like their barbeque and cheddar flavors.

Alyssa_Is_LosingIt

endlessfall16 wrote: »

This calorie minded eating starts to get funny.

Yes, it is hilarious to figure out ways to eat more food for less calories when you're counting calories on a calorie counting website.

SLLRunner

endlessfall16 wrote: »

Eat less chips! I don't think there are too many calories in very few chips!!

The suggestions of vegetables gave me a chuckle. That's essentially changing your favorite food. If you are ok with that, might as well switch salsa to vinegar. Veggies + vinegar = you even "earn" calorie points.

This calorie minded eating starts to get funny.

I agree with eating less chips, but you don't earn calorie points with veggies and vinegar or any other foods.

endlessfall16 wrote: »

Uh yes. There's not a single person on this earth who has become overweight from eating too much carrot, cucumber, pepper, celery.

I would think you even lose energy from chewing, processing those veggies raw.

I got fat eating loads of carrots, cucumber, pepper and celery, but only because it was part of my dietary plan of too much food.

Think about it too: nobody is going to just eat carrot, cucumber, pepper and celery.

SuperChanges

TavistockToad wrote: »

Carrot, cucumber, pepper, celery

Why not have the above and chips together with dips? That way you'll be eating less chips as there's more on your plate, and you'll feel good about the healthy food you've mixed in.

SusanMFindlay

Homemade kale chips are a decent substitute for potato chips.

A small number of tortilla chips crumbled into a bowl of salsa for the "chips and salsa" flavour. Eat with a spoon. (Admittedly, I view tortilla chips as salsa delivery devices. A small number of chips dipped into lots of salsa also works.)

Kati9408

boiled or baked potatoes without the oil

Colorscheme

lemurcat12 wrote: »

shadowfax_c11 wrote: »

Colorscheme wrote: »

Ripped up taco shells! I like chips and salsa too. Or tortilla strips instead of tortilla chips.

All of your substitutes are made out of the same thing as the thing you are substituting....Tortillas are tortillas whether they are chips, taco shells, or cut in strips. Why no0t just eat the thing you want to eat. In a measured portion that fits your goals.

OP I agree with the others who say you can have veggies with your dips to cut some of the calories but those dips are probably a bigger problem than the chips.

IDK me, when I want a specific food substitutes don't do it. I would rather have a controlled portion of the thing I want , than stuff myself on something I am not going to enjoy.

It sounds to me like the food OP wants might be the dip, not the chips. If so, the lowest cal option (vegetables) would be my choice, as like you say the dip on its own is still going to be quite caloric.

I don't know what kind of dips the OP is eating, but salsa dip is pretty low calorie.

lemurcat12

Colorscheme wrote: »

lemurcat12 wrote: »

shadowfax_c11 wrote: »

Colorscheme wrote: »

Ripped up taco shells! I like chips and salsa too. Or tortilla strips instead of tortilla chips.

All of your substitutes are made out of the same thing as the thing you are substituting....Tortillas are tortillas whether they are chips, taco shells, or cut in strips. Why no0t just eat the thing you want to eat. In a measured portion that fits your goals.

OP I agree with the others who say you can have veggies with your dips to cut some of the calories but those dips are probably a bigger problem than the chips.

IDK me, when I want a specific food substitutes don't do it. I would rather have a controlled portion of the thing I want , than stuff myself on something I am not going to enjoy.

It sounds to me like the food OP wants might be the dip, not the chips. If so, the lowest cal option (vegetables) would be my choice, as like you say the dip on its own is still going to be quite caloric.

I don't know what kind of dips the OP is eating, but salsa dip is pretty low calorie.

Yes, definitely. If OP wants to save calories and doesn't care what dip she eats, choosing that would be the way to go.

(I don't think of salsa as a "dip" but as "salsa" -- a separate thing -- but I see that OP was including it. I assumed she wanted to eat all three, but rereading maybe she just wants one of them.)

evilokc

Sadly there doesnt seem to be a substitute for good chips and my alternative doesnt work with dips. With sandwiches i eat goldfish crackers i stead of chips. They arent thw same but are good.

laur357

Maybe turn the dip into a small meal instead of a snack with chips . . . make it heartier and cut out dinner or lunch?

A little dish of rice and black beans topped with chicken dip. Roast some red potatoes or broccoli in the oven and add nacho cheese and salsa. Put a little spinach dip on top of grilled chicken tenders. Put some in mushroom caps or halved jalapenos then bake in the oven for a bit - a whole new appetizer with a very low-calorie base. It's not replacing the crunch of chips, but it'll get the dip in you and maybe be filling enough to cut way back on a separate, official meal.

CajunTess

Try Blue Diamond Almond Nut Thins with Sea Salt. Closest thing I've found to the crunchiness of tortilla chips.