What are your favorite "free" foods?
SusanDSME
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Especially now that it's getting chilly, I love Celestial Seasonings' Bengal Spice tea. The cinnamon makes it so sweet, I don't need to put any sweetener in. I like a splash of lowfat milk, but it's delicious even without.
What are your favorite very low cal/no cal foods? Bonus points if they aren't artificially sweetened.
What are your favorite very low cal/no cal foods? Bonus points if they aren't artificially sweetened.
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Veggies. Lower cal fruit.
But I don't really believe in "free" foods.
Super low cal:
Shirataki noodles (non-digestible, 0-30 cal for the whole pack) stir-fried with a little peanut sauce (I have one that is about 35cal/tablespoon).
And then I throw in a ridiculous amount of chicken breast and veggies, but dang, does that bulk up a meal.8 -
Yall keep commenting I'm just here taking notes cause I need some free foods in my life.11
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Wow, @PixelPuff - I'd never heard of Shirataki noodles! looks like my supermarket stocks them. I'll be giving them a try! Thanks!
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Wow, @PixelPuff - I'd never heard of Shirataki noodles! looks like my supermarket stocks them. I'll be giving them a try! Thanks!
If you try them tell me how they taste1 -
Wow, @PixelPuff - I'd never heard of Shirataki noodles! looks like my supermarket stocks them. I'll be giving them a try! Thanks!
They gonn' stink. I'm warning you now. Don't be deterred by the initial smell out of the package.
Rinse them in hot water really well, then throw'm straight in the pain. Heat it up/dry it out a bit... Add the sauce.
That alone is amazing.
But when you add some egg beaters? Chopped up carrots, bell pepper, onion..?
Delicious fresh chicken...? Unf.
... If you add all that, do the sauce last.7 -
I love asparagus. 100g has like 20 calories, that's not even enough to to brake a fast. 90% of them consists of indigestible fiber so the thing just goes through you without even being digested. And naturally since you can not even digest the thing your body can't absorb it and add it to fat stores.
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TeacupsAndToning wrote: »I think basically the only things I have that are like this are coffee and coke zero.
Tea and coke zero in my case but yeah, pretty much.1 -
I love asparagus. 100g has like 20 calories, that's not even enough to to brake a fast. 90% of them consists of indigestible fiber so the thing just goes through you without even being digested. And naturally since you can not even digest the thing your body can't absorb it and add it to fat stores.
It's food... it breaks your fast...1 -
I love asparagus. 100g has like 20 calories, that's not even enough to to brake a fast. 90% of them consists of indigestible fiber so the thing just goes through you without even being digested. And naturally since you can not even digest the thing your body can't absorb it and add it to fat stores.
@Ainar -- Fasting is a period of time of no eating (Several hours)
To break a fast all you need to do is consume food.. It is not a certain amount of calories.
Also just because something comes out the back end almost intact it doesn't mean it wasn't digested.
Digestion starts by putting food into your mouth and chewing it, there is digestive enzymes in your saliva.
Secondly, Asparagus can very well be added as fat stores.. Anything you eat above your maintenance calories is stored as fat, regardless of how much of it comes out of your body at the end.
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HellYeahItsKriss wrote: »I love asparagus. 100g has like 20 calories, that's not even enough to to brake a fast. 90% of them consists of indigestible fiber so the thing just goes through you without even being digested. And naturally since you can not even digest the thing your body can't absorb it and add it to fat stores.
@Ainar -- Fasting is a period of time of no eating (Several hours)
To break a fast all you need to do is consume food.. It is not a certain amount of calories.
Also just because something comes out the back end almost intact it doesn't mean it wasn't digested.
Digestion starts by putting food into your mouth and chewing it, there is digestive enzymes in your saliva.
Secondly, Asparagus can very well be added as fat stores.. Anything you eat above your maintenance calories is stored as fat, regardless of how much of it comes out of your body at the end.
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TavistockToad wrote: »I love asparagus. 100g has like 20 calories, that's not even enough to to brake a fast. 90% of them consists of indigestible fiber so the thing just goes through you without even being digested. And naturally since you can not even digest the thing your body can't absorb it and add it to fat stores.
It's food... it breaks your fast...HellYeahItsKriss wrote: »I love asparagus. 100g has like 20 calories, that's not even enough to to brake a fast. 90% of them consists of indigestible fiber so the thing just goes through you without even being digested. And naturally since you can not even digest the thing your body can't absorb it and add it to fat stores.
@Ainar -- Fasting is a period of time of no eating (Several hours)
To break a fast all you need to do is consume food.. It is not a certain amount of calories.
By "not gonna brake a fast" I did not meant an action of starting to ate but biological fasting state that body goes into after not consuming calories for a certain amount of time. 20 calories will not make you fall out of that state. So for us people who practice intermittent fasting for example it is literary free food that will not brake that fast.
That's not what I said. What I said is that dietary fiber (which is mostly what asparagus is made from) can not be digested and absorbed by the human body. That's just biological fact, look it up. Sure, you might chew the food making it into a mush. But the actual fiber molecules themselves can not be broken down because human body lacks necessary enzyme to do it and hence nutrients can not be extracted and absorbed.HellYeahItsKriss wrote: »
Also just because something comes out the back end almost intact it doesn't mean it wasn't digested.
Digestion starts by putting food into your mouth and chewing it, there is digestive enzymes in your saliva.
Secondly, Asparagus can very well be added as fat stores.. Anything you eat above your maintenance calories is stored as fat, regardless of how much of it comes out of your body at the end.
And no, if you can't absorb it then it will not go to your fat stores...
Unless one is some kind of biology student they will not make a distinction between digestion process on mechanical level and chemical level. When the average person hears the word "not digested" they just think "oh, I just poop it out without absorbing it". Just as when the average person sees food called "dairy free avocado butter" they just think "oh, it's a creamy substance made mostly from avocados that you put on a bread like butter" not "I better go explain to everybody how it's wrong to call it butter cos there is no dairy in it"
Guys, you're now just being OCD about words like these grammar nazis on internet that start barking cos somebody forgot to put a comma at the right place lol wtf.
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@TavistockToad and I must be out of our minds then.
.. Boy power again T? With an added super high five?
Asparagus.. the food you can eat when you hit maintenance and you won't get fat.1 -
My very favorite no cal "go to" is water.6
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As a vegetarian.
I started as a 313 pounds lump of of lard.
With loads of vegetables, ( like asparagus ),
My body had been stripped of a massive percent of Adipose tissue. ( FAT)
Yes I can get technical too.
So I wholeheartedly agree!
Eat asparagus and reap the rewards!’
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you do know that you lost weight because of calorie deficit and not magical asparagus right?4
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I don't like Asparagus either
... Oddly though i lost 165 pounds.. hmm.. blessed by Jesus i guess. 4 -
Water
Tea ... of various sorts
Coffee
Diet soft drinks
Spices ... to add flavour to my food
Radishes are pretty low cal ... I have 2 or 3 with salted cottage cheese as an after work snack. They add some crunch and flavour.1 -
Unsweetened teas
Spices
Dill pickles
Spinach3 -
Veggies!!!!2
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TavistockToad wrote: »I love asparagus. 100g has like 20 calories, that's not even enough to to brake a fast. 90% of them consists of indigestible fiber so the thing just goes through you without even being digested. And naturally since you can not even digest the thing your body can't absorb it and add it to fat stores.
It's food... it breaks your fast...HellYeahItsKriss wrote: »I love asparagus. 100g has like 20 calories, that's not even enough to to brake a fast. 90% of them consists of indigestible fiber so the thing just goes through you without even being digested. And naturally since you can not even digest the thing your body can't absorb it and add it to fat stores.
@Ainar -- Fasting is a period of time of no eating (Several hours)
To break a fast all you need to do is consume food.. It is not a certain amount of calories.
By "not gonna brake a fast" I did not meant an action of starting to ate but biological fasting state that body goes into after not consuming calories for a certain amount of time. 20 calories will not make you fall out of that state. So for us people who practice intermittent fasting for example it is literary free food that will not brake that fast.
That's not what I said. What I said is that dietary fiber (which is mostly what asparagus is made from) can not be digested and absorbed by the human body. That's just biological fact, look it up. Sure, you might chew the food making it into a mush. But the actual fiber molecules themselves can not be broken down because human body lacks necessary enzyme to do it and hence nutrients can not be extracted and absorbed.HellYeahItsKriss wrote: »
Also just because something comes out the back end almost intact it doesn't mean it wasn't digested.
Digestion starts by putting food into your mouth and chewing it, there is digestive enzymes in your saliva.
Secondly, Asparagus can very well be added as fat stores.. Anything you eat above your maintenance calories is stored as fat, regardless of how much of it comes out of your body at the end.
And no, if you can't absorb it then it will not go to your fat stores...
Unless one is some kind of biology student they will not make a distinction between digestion process on mechanical level and chemical level. When the average person hears the word "not digested" they just think "oh, I just poop it out without absorbing it". Just as when the average person sees food called "dairy free avocado butter" they just think "oh, it's a creamy substance made mostly from avocados that you put on a bread like butter" not "I better go explain to everybody how it's wrong to call it butter cos there is no dairy in it"
Guys, you're now just being OCD about words like these grammar nazis on internet that start barking cos somebody forgot to put a comma at the right place lol wtf.
I've never fasted and am genuinely curious.
Can you tell me where's the line that triggers a break in a fast? At what calorie intake has one broken their fast?
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Coffee.
Personally, I don't consider veg free foods, and I usually eat them with a meal anyway. I rarely snack, but on a rare occasion I might grab a pickle and not log it sometimes. (But it's not free, just sufficiently low cal that I wouldn't bother.) If the question is what foods are low cal, basically vegetables, but you all knew that.
IMO, any food breaks a fast, but since the deal with the IF kind of fasting is that some find it easier to hit a calorie number when limiting eating to a particular window (and not some special fasting state), then if it's low cal and doesn't trigger a desire to eat, whatever. (Kind of similar to me generally not snacking but for rare occasions.)2 -
Snacks at parties, free food is always the best
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Black coffee or green/black tea or H2O.0
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lemurcat12 wrote: »Coffee.
Personally, I don't consider veg free foods, and I usually eat them with a meal anyway. I rarely snack, but on a rare occasion I might grab a pickle and not log it sometimes. (But it's not free, just sufficiently low cal that I wouldn't bother.) If the question is what foods are low cal, basically vegetables, but you all knew that.
IMO, any food breaks a fast, but since the deal with the IF kind of fasting is that some find it easier to hit a calorie number when limiting eating to a particular window (and not some special fasting state), then if it's low cal and doesn't trigger a desire to eat, whatever. (Kind of similar to me generally not snacking but for rare occasions.)
I can eat up to a certain amount of calories and not trigger a desire to eat. Usually around 50 or so, a nice big dollop of yogurt.
I wouldn't be so silly as to claim that I'm still fasting, though, and I think the whole lore that's been built up around skipping/delaying breakfast is hilarious.
Why oh why to people have to invent elaborate scenarios around what they're doing to convince themselves to adhere to it? Why can't it just be something simple that works because it works without convoluted reasoning behind it that stretches credulity?
To the topic: my only "free" foods are herbal teas. I have half a pantry shelf full of various varieties. Anything else is low calorie and I log it.
ps. I'm a vegetarian. I was an obese vegetarian who ate a lot of vegetables. Even asparagus.7 -
@GottaBurnEmAll -- why? Cause magical Asparagus.0
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If by magical you mean serious stinky business... then yeah...agreed... 1
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Pickles. Almond milk lattes with cinnamon. Herbal tea. Sliced and salted radishes. Korean roasted seaweed.
I also love adding mustard, lemon juice, or ginger to foods to give them more flavor.1 -
Ahh.. i didn't realize i get to stink while i eat it.. excellent lol0
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HellYeahItsKriss wrote: »@GottaBurnEmAll -- why? Cause magical Asparagus.
I don't know how I managed to be obese while I ate asparagus. I guess I wasn't extra enough.1
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