What's your best calorie surprise?
ceiswyn
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I've just discovered that meringue nests are only 50 kcal apiece. Helloooooo, Eton Mess 
(Yeah, I know, there's still the cream...)
(Yeah, I know, there's still the cream...)
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Chocolate milk and long life custard. You can have 300ml of custard without making a dent on your day.1
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Caramel candies. Always assumed they'd be 80 calories or something... nope, 25!4
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Ice lollies. 50cal2
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Unsweetened almond milk. For 150 ml only 13cals
Sugar free jelly!1 -
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Mine is sort of the exact opposite. Kraft Calorie wise salad dressing, quite often is only 5 or 10 calories less per tbsp. So unless you are using half the bottle, its essentially no different from normal Salad dressing.4
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Low fat string cheese! Most people on "diets" seem to avoid cheese but this is only 50 cal and 7g protein.8
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Puffed wheat and puffed rice
Tuna pouches
Almond milk
Cauliflower rice and cauliflower rice medleys
Enlightened and Halo Top ice cream4 -
Berries!! High in sugar cOntent but all I count are calories and seem to be doing fine!
1 medium strawberry- about 5 cal
Cup of blueberries- about 90 cal
Blackberries, raspberries, and so on. Yummy!!2 -
Cashew milk
Jello cups
Popcorn1 -
Agree with the string cheese
Piece of string cheese and a piece of fruit is a pretty nice snack for 100-150 calories
-Pea crisps (just ate these!)
-Vegetables in general
-Berries, nectarines, peaches, plums
-Shredded cheese. I was surprised when I weighed it out, a typical 28g serving goes pretty far
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Cauliflower pizza and chia pudding!1
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Hershey Kiss, 25.
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Muscleflex79 wrote: »
In South Africa, where I live, Steri Stumpie is the popular brand and its 230 calories for 350mls. Feels really worth it to me.0 -
Probably not. I tend to air pop mine...nice big bowl for like 130 calories. 2 -
300g of cantaloupe is amazing, has 800mg potassium and is only around 100 cals and it's a HUGE portion.2
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And Wendy's Chilli blew my mind in 2013 and I've been eating it ever since lol 280cals and tons of protein and fibre7
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Potatoes, like seriously they have had a bad rap, they aren't high in calories. Love those delicious things.7
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Cous cous is only 100 cals for 100g dry. Can make it sweet with milk saffron and cardomon for an extra 20 cals, or savoury with roast veg/meat. Yum1
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gamerbabe14 wrote: »Potatoes, like seriously they have had a bad rap, they aren't high in calories. Love those delicious things.
YES! I love sweet potatoes especially. Other pleasant surprises for me: plain Greek yogurt (love to mix it with about 1/4 scoop chocolate protein powder!), string cheese, eggs, any type of veggies, ooh and hummus!3 -
Hard candies
Puffed cereals
Spaghetti Squash1 -
Cous cous is only 100 cals for 100g dry. Can make it sweet with milk saffron and cardomon for an extra 20 cals, or savoury with roast veg/meat. Yum
USDA database lists dry couscous (NDB No 20028) as having 376 kcal per 100 g.
The MFP food database is notoriously full of inaccurate entries. It's safest to look for those that have "USDA" in the description. I sometimes double check those as well if they look suspicious to me ...
Good luck with accurate logging and working towards your goal!4 -
Roasted chickpeas.
Only 88 calories for a 65g bag and that packs a lot of chickpeas. Very filling too.3 -
I can't think of anything big right now, but popcorn. I opt for Pop Weaver's light butter popcorn, which is about 220 calories a bag, and their normal butter version is only 50 calories more a bag. The bags aren't super tiny either, so it makes a filling indulgence.0
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black and white, Dutch licorice powder! It makes sense that one tub only has about 100kcal, considering there's just 30 grams in it. But man, it looks so much, and gives a lovely taste for a long time. Certainly not a candy I eat quickly.0
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Graelwyn75 wrote: »Roasted chickpeas.
Only 88 calories for a 65g bag and that packs a lot of chickpeas. Very filling too.
I would double check on that as it looks closer to caned chickpeas than roasted that I've seen as high as 4+ Cal per gram depending on preparation.
The one time I roasted my own I thought that they were excellent but a little bit too HIGH in calories.... de-canned, washed, dried, weighed, oven, re-weighed, appreciable shrinkage. Yummy though.1 -
Snickers ice cream bars for 250 calories are much bigger and way more satisfying than a Snickers chocolate bar at 230 calories or so.
Cadbury egg is around 150 calories, and I find it more indulgent & tasty than any 250+ chocolate bar/treat.
Big bag of cotton candy is horrible for you and basically just sugar, but due to all of the air, what I assumed would be 10 servings at 110 cal/each, is 3.5 servings. So I *could* eat the entire bag that is larger than my head for about 400 calories.
I swear I eat "real" food too, lol. These were just happy surprises when it comes to treats.6
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