I love apples but...

loulouowens
loulouowens Posts: 103 Member
edited November 18 in Health and Weight Loss
Trying to incorporate some fruit but why does it have to be nearly the same calories as my small chocolate bars grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
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  • loulouowens
    loulouowens Posts: 103 Member
    Ive never bothered with macros etc since starting (lost 80lb) but now I'm getting closer to goal i feel i need to fuel my body better! But its so dam hard when my favourite biscuit is 100 calorie
  • rdmitch
    rdmitch Posts: 278 Member
    No but's they are a tasty and filling mid morning snack with no clean up
  • loulouowens
    loulouowens Posts: 103 Member
    Tiny_Dancer_in_Pink wrote: »
    Chocolate covered apples on a stick, even better!
    I like your style
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  • wizzybeth
    wizzybeth Posts: 3,578 Member
    zachbonner_ wrote: »
    Tiny_Dancer_in_Pink wrote: »
    Chocolate covered apples on a stick, even better!

    Apples and chocolate is good?

    Why not?
  • KM0692
    KM0692 Posts: 178 Member
    Fit them both into your day. :)
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  • whitpauly
    whitpauly Posts: 1,483 Member
    Apples make me hungrier for some reason
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  • wizzybeth
    wizzybeth Posts: 3,578 Member
    zachbonner_ wrote: »
    wizzybeth wrote: »
    zachbonner_ wrote: »
    Tiny_Dancer_in_Pink wrote: »
    Chocolate covered apples on a stick, even better!

    Apples and chocolate is good?

    Why not?

    I've never had it just asking

    Chocolate covered strawberries is yum...I would think dipping apple slices in chocolate would be just as good
  • loulouowens
    loulouowens Posts: 103 Member
    zachbonner_ wrote: »
    I just think of apples and honey or apples and caramel

    Apples with caramel and chocolate
  • loulouowens
    loulouowens Posts: 103 Member
    I think i have a issue with chocolate..........
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  • jo_nz
    jo_nz Posts: 548 Member
    My favourite way to eat apples is sliced, with some sliced cheese. Very satisfying.

    Though I do try and fit in chocolate regularly too...
  • JenHuedy
    JenHuedy Posts: 611 Member
    I try to shop for smaller apples so I don't have half an apple sitting around, getting brown. Those huge ones can have over 200 calories! I generally end up eating berries for my fruit, just because I can portion easier.
  • VintageFeline
    VintageFeline Posts: 6,771 Member
    I'd rather use fewer calories having extra veg for fiber and micros then I could just have the chocolate without worrying about the apple. This is why I don't eat much fruit. Though i've been on a melon kick recently. And will eat a boatload of strawberries as they come into season.

    But yeah, more veg so I can have chocolate instead of fruit.
  • LAWoman72
    LAWoman72 Posts: 2,846 Member
    I love apples and I love chocolate! There is many a day that I eat both. An 80 calorie apple plus a 240 calorie Milky Way still leave me with calories for the rest of my day. :)
  • bbell1985
    bbell1985 Posts: 4,571 Member
    Because they're sugar. Nature's candy.

  • hesn92
    hesn92 Posts: 5,966 Member
    Apples do nothing for me
  • lynn_glenmont
    lynn_glenmont Posts: 10,099 Member
    tiptoethruthetulips wrote: »
    Your small chocolate bars do not have any fibre....a bonus from the apple ;) Eat the skin for even for fibre

    They must have some fiber. Cocoa powder (the unsweetened baking powder) is pretty high fiber. Obviously, in a chocolate bar, there's so much fat and sugar that the fiber may not amount to much, but if it has actual cocoa (i.e., not "white chocolate"), it has to have some fiber.
  • Lourdesong
    Lourdesong Posts: 1,492 Member
    Apples are pretty nutritionally void. They're tasty when in season and smell wonderful, but even their fiber isn't that great. Sugary cereals per serving have the same or more fiber, and less sugar, than an apple of the same calories. (yes I've really compared the supposed nutritional virtues of an apple to fruit loops)
  • CharlieBeansmomTracey
    CharlieBeansmomTracey Posts: 7,682 Member
    edited May 2017
    lynn_glenmont wrote: »
    tiptoethruthetulips wrote: »
    Your small chocolate bars do not have any fibre....a bonus from the apple ;) Eat the skin for even for fibre

    They must have some fiber. Cocoa powder (the unsweetened baking powder) is pretty high fiber. Obviously, in a chocolate bar, there's so much fat and sugar that the fiber may not amount to much, but if it has actual cocoa (i.e., not "white chocolate"), it has to have some fiber.

    most I have bought have very low fiber, maybe 1 or 2 grams if that. Im sure there are some out there that have decent amounts of fiber,but would probably cost more to buy.dark chocolate has more grams of fiber but the higher the amount of cacao the more bitter it is lol
  • Lourdesong
    Lourdesong Posts: 1,492 Member

    Tiny_Dancer_in_Pink wrote: »
    Lourdesong wrote: »
    Apples are pretty nutritionally void. They're tasty when in season and smell wonderful, but even their fiber isn't that great. Sugary cereals per serving have the same or more fiber, and less sugar, than an apple of the same calories. (yes I've really compared the supposed nutritional virtues of an apple to fruit loops)

    Apples are not nutritionally devoid! If you think that, then all foods are nutritionally devoid.

    I said "pretty nutritionally void", and my point was its nutrition profile is not impressive. So why force yourself to eat an apple if doing so if because of a false belief that it is? Eat em if you like em.
  • Sp1tfire
    Sp1tfire Posts: 1,120 Member
    I love a good apple. They fill me up! I could eat a jumbo honeycrisp any day of the week. Too bad they're so friggin expensive!
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