What’s everyone’s say on bagels?
jessstefanick
Posts: 12 Member
Everyone talks about how bad bagels are. I like whole wheat bagels. But how often are they okay? Anyone else incorporate bagels into their calorie intakes for the day?
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People say tons of stupid stuff. the key is stop listening to random stuff. don`t focus on any food being good or bad.
if it fits in your daily calorie goals have all the bagels you want. especially if they also keep you full and happy.
personally i don`t do bagels. they taste great but sadly they don`t keep ME full long enough (everyone is different). I am a volume eater so get sad eating only a bagel
but that`s just me. do what works for you. 23 -
If I'm gonna eat a special breakfast its gonna be french toast.
If bagels are your thing fit it in
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bagels. I eat them occasionally but like @Panini911 I don't find them very filling.
People say all kinds of crazy stuff, usually with absolutely no scientific basis, so I wouldn't worry about it.
If you find them filling and are eating them as part of a balanced diet, there's no problem.
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Why would they be particularly bad? Look at the cals, the macros, and what else you are eating with them and decide if it works for you. Some bagels, especially from a bagel place, are huge, so will have lots of cals, mostly just refined carbs, so some may find them not filling. You can deal with that by eating a smaller portion with some other foods.
Personally I don't eat them that often since they aren't a favorite food (I like them, but don't miss them when I don't eat them), and I don't find them filling or worth the calories.3 -
I love bagels! I have one for breakfast about once a week with cream cheese or avocado.5
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I miss bagels! I love bagels, but they don't love me. I have a Non-Celiac Gluten Intolerance, so can't eat bagels any more and the gf versions were always just disappointing.
If they fit within your calorie goals, then go for it.0 -
You can have bagels as often as you like as long as they fit within your goals. Depending on how filling you find them, and what you put on the bagel (tons of full fat cream cheese or butter, for example), will dictate how well they fit in your goal in a regular basis. But they are not bad or evil or anything else for dieting. And they're not really bad for nutrition either. I wouldn't eat a diet solely consisting of bagels obviously (I mean I would like to, but I won't), but bagels have fiber, protein, and iron among other nutrients. So if you can fit them in, go for them.
I love them, but almost never have them anymore because there is really only one semi-decent bagel shop in my entire country, and it's bagels are only passable. It's one of the things I miss most about living in the US, especially coming from the amazing bageltopia that is New York. Whenever I am back for a visit I will have bagels at least daily.5 -
I love them! Walmart carries a 110 calorie brand. They're not quite as good as regular ones, but they satisfy the craving.2
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I have a bagel with butter for breakfast at least 5 days a week. And not a special low calorie bagel - just a regular bagel or two bialys. It hasn't played any role in my ability to lose weight.8
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I like the plain ones from Big Apple Bagels with plain cream cheese. Not toasted. The texture is heavenly.
Edit: Not a lot of cream cheese, though. I always ask for on the side because they just cake it on. bad cream cheese to bagel ratio.6 -
Bagels are tasty! I love them and refuse to identify any food as "bad" so I make room in my calorie budget for them when I can. Chewy schmeary deliciousness.11
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If It Fits Your Macro and calories, eat whatever you like.4
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I love my bagels HEAPED with cream cheese, which makes it nearly impossible to fit them into my daily calories. Therefore, I don't eat them. But it's not because bagels are "bad."6
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I don't like bagels so I don't eat them. I prefer English muffing or toast.0
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I don't find bagels with butter filling at all, so they are not a good choice for me for a meal. I do, however, find a half bagel with cream cheese and smoked salmon quite filling.2
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kshama2001 wrote: »I don't find bagels with butter filling at all, so they are not a good choice for me for a meal. I do, however, find a half bagel with cream cheese and smoked salmon quite filling.
See I'm that person who can eat a bagel with butter and be satiated for the morning but will be starving if I eat an equivalent amount of oatmeal.11 -
I love bagels; but I love fruit more. I usually have Melba toast instead of a bagel because the calories are less; and that allows for my 400 calories of fruit per day. Just fit what you love within your allotted calories.0
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I'll have a large bagel with cream cheese and caraway seeds once or twice a month. I love bagels. I mean, I love them. But they are high in sodium, so I treat them as a "sometimes-rare" food.
Bagels keep me full for a few hours, but are not quite enough to get me to lunchtime. I have accepted that if I have a bagel for breakfast, I may be hungry before lunch arrives. It's worth it, to me.3 -
The only people I've ever heard say bagels are bad are people who think carbohydrates are bad. There is nothing bad about either.14
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quiksylver296 wrote: »I love my bagels HEAPED with cream cheese, which makes it nearly impossible to fit them into my daily calories. Therefore, I don't eat them. But it's not because bagels are "bad."
Finally! Someone else like me. I get so much flak for the amount of cream cheese I put on my bagels. Bagels are just a tasty cream cheese holder and using only a small amount is a waste of time. Sadly, like you and others, I have trouble making them fit my calories especially since they don't actually keep me full for very long.5 -
quiksylver296 wrote: »I love my bagels HEAPED with cream cheese, which makes it nearly impossible to fit them into my daily calories. Therefore, I don't eat them. But it's not because bagels are "bad."
Finally! Someone else like me. I get so much flak for the amount of cream cheese I put on my bagels. Bagels are just a tasty cream cheese holder and using only a small amount is a waste of time. Sadly, like you and others, I have trouble making them fit my calories especially since they don't actually keep me full for very long.
My go to bagel when I am in New York is heaps of cream cheese, lox, chicken salad, and sliced cheese 🙈. So however weird you guys are, I'm weirder. If it was a regular part of my diet, I probably couldn't do all that very often. But as a vacation treat, it is one of my favorite things in the world.7 -
quiksylver296 wrote: »I love my bagels HEAPED with cream cheese, which makes it nearly impossible to fit them into my daily calories. Therefore, I don't eat them. But it's not because bagels are "bad."
Finally! Someone else like me. I get so much flak for the amount of cream cheese I put on my bagels. Bagels are just a tasty cream cheese holder and using only a small amount is a waste of time. Sadly, like you and others, I have trouble making them fit my calories especially since they don't actually keep me full for very long.
My go to bagel when I am in New York is heaps of cream cheese, lox, chicken salad, and sliced cheese 🙈. So however weird you guys are, I'm weirder. If it was a regular part of my diet, I probably couldn't go all that on the regular. But as a vacation treat, it is one of my favorite things in the world.
I can see that bagel-to-cream-cheese ratio could be a contentious thing among MFP'ers, lol.1 -
quiksylver296 wrote: »I love my bagels HEAPED with cream cheese, which makes it nearly impossible to fit them into my daily calories. Therefore, I don't eat them. But it's not because bagels are "bad."
Finally! Someone else like me. I get so much flak for the amount of cream cheese I put on my bagels. Bagels are just a tasty cream cheese holder and using only a small amount is a waste of time. Sadly, like you and others, I have trouble making them fit my calories especially since they don't actually keep me full for very long.
As a long time (former) New Yorker getting a bagel or a hard roll automatically comes with approx one brick of cream cheese or one brick of butter just smushed between the two halves and wrapped in paper, even when I asked them to go light. I always found it way too much, but obviously lots of folks were happy to eat them that way!
OP, if a bagel fits your calories, it's fine. You'll have to see by trial and error if dedicating a big bunch of cals to a bagel will work for you, or leave you hungry. This will also depend on the bagel - If you are getting a fresh baked bagel from a bagel place, it's going to be like twice the size of a Lenders bagel from the grocery store. I can fit in a packaged bagel or english muffin with my own measured spread pretty easily. A big honking fresh baked bagel cheesed or buttered by the clerk, I have to strategically plan for.8 -
RelCanonical wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »I love my bagels HEAPED with cream cheese, which makes it nearly impossible to fit them into my daily calories. Therefore, I don't eat them. But it's not because bagels are "bad."
Finally! Someone else like me. I get so much flak for the amount of cream cheese I put on my bagels. Bagels are just a tasty cream cheese holder and using only a small amount is a waste of time. Sadly, like you and others, I have trouble making them fit my calories especially since they don't actually keep me full for very long.
My go to bagel when I am in New York is heaps of cream cheese, lox, chicken salad, and sliced cheese 🙈. So however weird you guys are, I'm weirder. If it was a regular part of my diet, I probably couldn't go all that on the regular. But as a vacation treat, it is one of my favorite things in the world.
I can see that bagel-to-cream-cheese ratio could be a contentious thing among MFP'ers, lol.
Not really. I'm in full agreement to you that the cream cheese needs to be on the side. They never know what the approriate amount is.
I do disagree where toasting is concerned. A bagel needs to be toasted before the cream cheese is applied. Ratios apply just as with the untoasted version (which simply isn't as yummy)
I learned to make bagels since the ones you buy here are so disappointing. I also make them smaller than average so that they're easy to fit into my day. One, with the appropriate amount of cream cheese and a fruit will keep me full until lunch time.4 -
ladyreva78 wrote: »
I do disagree where toasting is concerned. A bagel needs to be toasted before the cream cheese is applied. Ratios apply just as with the untoasted version (which simply isn't as yummy)
Bagel toasters unite in crispy agreement!7 -
I love bagels. We have a place here that makes wonderful onion bagels that are really good with peanut butter. Pretty high calorie but I still eat them once or twice a month.1
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I'm guessing I'm the only weirdo who just eats bagels like a donut, untoasted and with nothing on them. XD
When I was a little kid we used to bike down to the farmers market where there was a place with lots of different flavored bagels and just eat those for lunch. I liked the sun dried tomato ones.6 -
quiksylver296 wrote: »I love my bagels HEAPED with cream cheese, which makes it nearly impossible to fit them into my daily calories. Therefore, I don't eat them. But it's not because bagels are "bad."
Finally! Someone else like me. I get so much flak for the amount of cream cheese I put on my bagels. Bagels are just a tasty cream cheese holder and using only a small amount is a waste of time. Sadly, like you and others, I have trouble making them fit my calories especially since they don't actually keep me full for very long.
Yep! French toast bagels, toasted, with obscene amounts of cream cheese. There's a thing I cannot moderate. Forgot about them, actually, because I haven't had them in so long.0 -
love bagels although I don't eat them often.0
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quiksylver296 wrote: »I love my bagels HEAPED with cream cheese, which makes it nearly impossible to fit them into my daily calories. Therefore, I don't eat them. But it's not because bagels are "bad."
Finally! Someone else like me. I get so much flak for the amount of cream cheese I put on my bagels. Bagels are just a tasty cream cheese holder and using only a small amount is a waste of time. Sadly, like you and others, I have trouble making them fit my calories especially since they don't actually keep me full for very long. As a long time (former) New Yorker getting a bagel or a hard roll automatically comes with approx one brick of cream cheese or one brick of butter just smushed between the two halves and wrapped in paper, even when I asked them to go light. I always found it way too much, but obviously lots of folks were happy to eat them that way!
OP, if a bagel fits your calories, it's fine. You'll have to see by trial and error if dedicating a big bunch of cals to a bagel will work for you, or leave you hungry. This will also depend on the bagel - If you are getting a fresh baked bagel from a bagel place, it's going to be like twice the size of a Lenders bagel from the grocery store. I can fit in a packaged bagel or english muffin with my own measured spread pretty easily. A big honking fresh baked bagel cheesed or buttered by the clerk, I have to strategically plan for.
Sounds perfect. 3
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