Low Calorie options that were disappointing
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Low calorie American beer. What's the point? Might as well drink soda water...lol5
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Walden farms dressings! Freaking nasty and expensive.1
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Cassandraw3 wrote: »no1racefan1 wrote: »SuzySunshine99 wrote: »Plain, air-popped popcorn. I may as well be eating salted Styrofoam.
I still gotta have some butter on my popcorn...for me it's worth the calories.
Agree. The texture is awful.
Mine is--pretty much anything with artificial sweetener. Yuck!
Artificial sweetener is the worst!
Nope. No its not. Not at all.
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I’m actually okay with a lot of low fat/0 cal things. I actually like skinny syrup, Walden farms, low fat yogurts etc.
The only thing I’m not too fond of pb2.3 -
I like monk fruit and stevia and I do like the black bean brownies stuff like that, I cannot stand the skinny syrups from Starbucks! Anything with Splenda or the like I instantly regret0
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Low fat caesar dressing1
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psychod787 wrote: »Walden farms dressings! Freaking nasty and expensive.
and the 'peanut butter' is not edible...I threw mine out
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xbowhunter wrote: »Low calorie American beer. What's the point? Might as well drink soda water...lol
That's kind of the point. For me, Bud Lite is a day beer or a "between drinks" beer. It keeps me just buzzed enough without sending me into a blackout. I can drink 6 Buds through out the day. But 6 double IPAs would have me not feeling too good.
I can't do shiritaki noodles. I tried them once and actually threw up. So nasty.
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Walden farms peanut butter....
Take a spoonful of salt and a spoonful of dirt and you have a perfect comparison of that product...5 -
jogetsgains wrote: »Sugar free pancake syrup. Something that is made completely of sugar just shouldn't be sugar free, I guess.
On that same subject, can anyone explain how they make sugar free caramel? I mean, caramel is basically sugar and water boiled together with a little cream (sometimes) for texture... so sugar free caramel???
Smuckers ingredients--
Ingredients: Maltodexterin, Water, Maltitol Syrup, Glycerine, Sorbitol, Nonfat Milk, Contains 2% Or Less Of: Soybean Oil, Artificial Flavors, Corn Starch, Salt, Caramel Color, Fully Hydrogenated Cottonseed Oil, Carrageenan, Potassium Sorbate (Preservative), Sodium Phosphate, Sodium Citrate, Sucralose (Non Nutritive Sweetener), Monoglycerides, Yellow 6, Tbhq (Antioxidant), Red 40.
Stir gently to combine1 -
Most reduced fat dairy products other than milk, especially cheese, any kind of cheese. I also can't do light mayo, it's just not the same.1
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I’m actually okay with a lot of low fat/0 cal things. I actually like skinny syrup, Walden farms, low fat yogurts etc.
The only thing I’m not too fond of pb2.
I'm the opposite. I like pb2 and I the last time I had real peanut butter was 2 months ago (after not eating it for nearly 3 years because something else always wins the "worth the calories" war). It's the other things I can't do. Low fat is the worst, low sugar is a hit or miss, but usually acceptable unless it has stevia.0 -
Reduces fat butter and low fat spreads . What is the point?
Oh, and mayonnaise. It has to be hellmans and not low fat.1 -
jogetsgains wrote: »jogetsgains wrote: »Sugar free pancake syrup. Something that is made completely of sugar just shouldn't be sugar free, I guess.
On that same subject, can anyone explain how they make sugar free caramel? I mean, caramel is basically sugar and water boiled together with a little cream (sometimes) for texture... so sugar free caramel???
Smuckers ingredients--
Ingredients: Maltodexterin, Water, Maltitol Syrup, Glycerine, Sorbitol, Nonfat Milk, Contains 2% Or Less Of: Soybean Oil, Artificial Flavors, Corn Starch, Salt, Caramel Color, Fully Hydrogenated Cottonseed Oil, Carrageenan, Potassium Sorbate (Preservative), Sodium Phosphate, Sodium Citrate, Sucralose (Non Nutritive Sweetener), Monoglycerides, Yellow 6, Tbhq (Antioxidant), Red 40.
Stir gently to combine
pardon my french but holy *kitten*!! 2 ingredients to 21 ingredients... smdh0 -
I was guessing some sort of thickened sweet syrup-like but creamier substance from the ingredient list -- had to scroll up to find/check...yep, low cal caramel sauce fits.1
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pinggolfer96 wrote: »Walden farms peanut butter....
Take a spoonful of salt and a spoonful of dirt and you have a perfect comparison of that product...
Fully agree on this one and I love most of the WF products
Agreed. I gagged when I bought the peanut butter and I use their dressings, syrups, and dips daily.0 -
Yeah pretty much the full fat version is the only one I go for - just have less of it.
Low fat mayo has to be the worst
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I tried to delude myself with PB2 for awhile, but I couldn't do it.1
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quiksylver296 wrote: »I tried to delude myself with PB2 for awhile, but I couldn't do it.
I am supposed to make a dessert next week for work and was trying to think of something with reasonable calories to which I could add protein. I was thinking of using PB2 to make buckeyes (peanut butter fudge balls coated in chocolate). Is it really that bad?0 -
Cassandraw3 wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »I tried to delude myself with PB2 for awhile, but I couldn't do it.
I am supposed to make a dessert next week for work and was trying to think of something with reasonable calories to which I could add protein. I was thinking of using PB2 to make buckeyes (peanut butter fudge balls coated in chocolate). Is it really that bad?
It's not bad. It just isn't peanut butter. You don't get the salty/sweet deliciousness. It just tastes like peanuts. It may work for buckeye balls (I totally know what those are! My grandma made them at Christmas).0 -
SuzySunshine99 wrote: »Plain, air-popped popcorn. I may as well be eating salted Styrofoam.
I still gotta have some butter on my popcorn...for me it's worth the calories.
I like mine slightly burnt. Its added flavor! Lol!1 -
Laughing Cow extra light cheese triangles. They have zero flavour. And Fibre One cake bars. I find the lemon ones particularly rancid; apparently someone thought it was a good idea to mix lemon dish soap with liquid paraffin and sand.4
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jogetsgains wrote: »jogetsgains wrote: »Sugar free pancake syrup. Something that is made completely of sugar just shouldn't be sugar free, I guess.
On that same subject, can anyone explain how they make sugar free caramel? I mean, caramel is basically sugar and water boiled together with a little cream (sometimes) for texture... so sugar free caramel???
Smuckers ingredients--
Ingredients: Maltodexterin, Water, Maltitol Syrup, Glycerine, Sorbitol, Nonfat Milk, Contains 2% Or Less Of: Soybean Oil, Artificial Flavors, Corn Starch, Salt, Caramel Color, Fully Hydrogenated Cottonseed Oil, Carrageenan, Potassium Sorbate (Preservative), Sodium Phosphate, Sodium Citrate, Sucralose (Non Nutritive Sweetener), Monoglycerides, Yellow 6, Tbhq (Antioxidant), Red 40.
Stir gently to combine
pardon my french but holy *kitten*!! 2 ingredients to 21 ingredients... smdh
For ppl who want this and have ZERO calories, it comes with a free chemistry lesson.
All this science and it doesn't even taste good 😭1 -
I hate low fat cottage cheese too (gag).
There was a thread once where people were discussing what they put in their cottage cheese.
Lots of people were mixing in sweeteners, jam etc. I love cottage cheese plain and was a bit baffled.
They started stocking low-fat cottage cheese at work, and I figured it was a good protein snack after the gym, so I grapped one.
I had to spit it out and throw out the rest of the container. Afterwards I thought it might not have been so bad with jam mixed in. <lightbulb moment>
But nah....0 -
PB2 is good for smoothies and baking, NOT for eating like regular peanut butter.
and Laughing Cow cheese is great, maybe not the extra light, but the regular is so low calorie anyway...0 -
I have some of the Jif powder peanut butter... it's fine for mixing into things to add peanut flavor, but no - not even remotely a substitute for straight peanut butter. yuck. (It also likely wouldn't have the binding properties of normal peanut butter - so I doubt that many of the no-bake and flourless recipes that use peanut butter would work too well without additional ingredient substitutions).0
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Noreenmarie1234 wrote: »pinggolfer96 wrote: »Walden farms peanut butter....
Take a spoonful of salt and a spoonful of dirt and you have a perfect comparison of that product...
Fully agree on this one and I love most of the WF products
Agreed. I gagged when I bought the peanut butter and I use their dressings, syrups, and dips daily.
But I did not toss mine. I refuse to throw out anything I buy. I bought it for a reason, spent my hard earned money so it will be eaten / used.
It all got used up in making thai peanut sauce and for that it worked well.
I tried to use it up in peanut butter cookie recipe. Came out terrible, but my family ate them, haha!0 -
SuzySunshine99 wrote: »Plain, air-popped popcorn. I may as well be eating salted Styrofoam.
I still gotta have some butter on my popcorn...for me it's worth the calories.
I cannot fathom why anyone considers plain air-popped popcorn a good snack. Even if you try to season it the seasoning doesn't stick.
Reduced fat cream cheese is very disappointing. It has a weird grainy texture, not worth it. I used to like Halo Top but once I tried Enlightened and Chilly Cow I stopped buying it. Definitely not the best low cal ice cream option and it's not the cheapest either.
Turkey bacon. I'll buy and eat it but it's not bacon. Anything made with stevia. Very upset about the rise of stevia as the 'hip' low calorie sweetener because the aftertaste is like licking a nine-volt battery.3 -
Every. Single. Item. All disappointing for me.0
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I have some of the Jif powder peanut butter... it's fine for mixing into things to add peanut flavor, but no - not even remotely a substitute for straight peanut butter. yuck. (It also likely wouldn't have the binding properties of normal peanut butter - so I doubt that many of the no-bake and flourless recipes that use peanut butter would work too well without additional ingredient substitutions).
I agree. If you're substituting in PB2, a separate fat source should be added since the regular peanut butter is likely replacing a fat like butter or oil.
Also, PB2 is good, but it really isn't peanut butter. If you eat it and expect peanut butter, then you'll be disappointed. But, if you go into it thinking PB2 is a new spread that is totally separate from pb, then you might enjoy it more.
You can also mix it with a reduced fat butter/margarine for a different consistency. 2 tbsp for 80 calories of I Can't Believe it's Not Butter Lite and 45 cals for 2 tbsp PB2 is still less than regular peanut butter.1
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