What traditional "diet" foods do you avoid?
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I avoid foods that I don't like, foods that aren't worth the calories and foods that I'm not willing to pay for, some of these foods happen to be popular on diets so here are some:
Nut milks, coconut oil, anything that is twice the price just because it's organic/gluten free/vegan/low carb/GMO free/sugar free/low fat...etc, kale and berries (love them, but too expensive), fat free cheese... and anything else where the compromise in taste is not worth the calories saved.
I also avoid using any replacements as replacements (like using anything other than dough as a pizza crust, having a cauliflower mash when I want mashed potatoes or replacing pasta with anything else that isn't pasta). I do use some of these things as their own dish sometimes when I feel like having them (like cauliflower rice) but never as a replacement for the real thing. The only times I would do replacements is where the taste is not compromised by much and is still very similar to the real thing, like artificially sweetened drinks.2 -
Most light and fat free foods.3
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I typically avoid foods marketed as "diet foods"3
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That people start eating on a diet because "these are what you eat": egg whites, anything on the Bro Food Diet List (though I like many of those foods, I prefer SEASONING on them), Laughing Cow cheese (way too many people eating these).0
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Most light and fat free foods.
Pretty much this.
Except I can't stand regular Coke, so when I have soda, I drink Diet Coke. It tastes better and the lack of calories is a bonus.
There's nothing I eat or don't eat because of "diet," but there are things I eat or don't eat because of nutrition.
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Anything labeled "low fat" or "sugar free" or "low cal" "low carb" I have always eaten a diet based of real/whole foods and have never been outside a healthy BMI so I truly believe in not falling for the "diet foods". Lots of veggies and fruits and lean meats and olive oil for cooking!4
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Salads.0
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Kale, quinoa, tofu, and anything gluten-free, sugar-free, or fat-free.3
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cottage cheese. blugh.0
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My apologies, my thread should have been ''anyone else hate carrot/celery sticks''- that's all I really cared about.6
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Heh, I like carrot and celery sticks, with the new Chobani dips, or with laughing cow cheese, or peanut butter.
I don't do "diet" foods, other than calorie free soda. They're generally just sad substitutes.3 -
healthypelican wrote: »My apologies, my thread should have been ''anyone else hate carrot/celery sticks''- that's all I really cared about.
I lost 50+ pounds without eating carrots sticks or celery1 -
healthypelican wrote: »My apologies, my thread should have been ''anyone else hate carrot/celery sticks''- that's all I really cared about.
Not me. About the only veggies I do like. Just have to be raw. Plus snap peas, cherry tomatoes and peppers.0 -
healthypelican wrote: »Celery and carrot sticks, blah! I don't like muesli bars (not particularly healthy), trail mix, plain popcorn, cottage cheese, pita bread, bran muffins, chili's, stir frys, garden salads...
Lol... when I saw the title of your post, celery & carrot sicks were right there! Just because something is low cal doesn't mean I want to eat it all day. Also not a fan of bars & trail mixes, as they are not particularly low calorie, but I actually like the other things on your list. My favorite garden salad has chicken, apple, craisins & blue cheese in it with a generous amount of sweet onion dressing... nothing "diety" about that, in my book.3 -
Yogurt. I've tried it many times and in many forms, and I'm not going to eat it unless it's in some form of Indian curry or gravy. When I first started losing weight and tried Weight Watchers, I felt like a pariah because I didn't eat yogurt for breakfast, as a snack, for dessert, and as a replacement for sour cream. I swear the group was responsible for 78% of yogurt sales in Pennsylvania.4
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healthypelican wrote: »My apologies, my thread should have been ''anyone else hate carrot/celery sticks''- that's all I really cared about.
I lost 50+ pounds without eating carrots sticks or celery
Celery sticks are awesome slathered in peanutbutter...otherwise I only eat celery in soups. Carrots are good on salads and dipped in ranch. I actually love a good salad.2 -
cwolfman13 wrote: »Celery sticks are awesome slathered in peanutbutter...otherwise I only eat celery in soups. Carrots are good on salads and dipped in ranch. I actually love a good salad.
I prefer my pb the way it was meant to be - straight off the spoon! Maybe with a banana or apple if I'm feeling particularly virtuous
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