Dessert Ideas 100 Calories With Some Nutrition

lisakatz2

Looking for 100 calorie dessert options that have some nutritional value. Something to
satisfy a sweet tooth. I'm finding that I crave dessert almost every night and I'm tired of fighting it.

nossmf

What do you mean by "nutritional value"? A piece of fruit (apple, banana, etc) is usually 100 calories or less, and considered by much of the world to be a perfectly fine dessert.

If you want something more Westernized, I dunno what you'll find with chocolate AND protein or vitamin C or whatever else you may be looking for. But an old "go-to" for me is to keep a bag of miniature Hershey's bars in the freezer, each one equal to about 1/8 of a full-sized candy bar. Since a full bar is 200 calories, this means each mini-bar is about 25 calories. So I can fit 2 or 3 into my day's calorie total pretty easily, they are sweet, and if you freeze them before eating it takes longer to chew, making the experience last longer and seem more fulfilling. At least to me.

AnnPT77

For me, prunes and some other dried fruits, as well as whole fruits, can be a sweet treat. I also like frozen berries (still frozen, or very slightly thawed in microwave) with plain nonfat Greek yogurt and a bit of chocolate peanut butter powder. Whether the latter is 100 calories will depend on portion sizes, but there's definitely nutrition.

Dark chocolate has some useful phytochemicals, and is very tasty. I usually have some individually-wrapped, high-quality small chocolates around to savor. There are quite a few with less than 100 calories, and I'm able to eat just one though I know some people have difficulty moderating them. The lowest calorie one I keep around is Bouchard Belgian Dark Chocolate. One individually-wrapped chocolate has 28 calories (1/5 of the 5-piece serving size), and a tiny amount of protein/micronutrients (how much nutrition can one fit in 28 calories?! )

Here's the nutrition label:



On the much more "Westernized" front, I also like Yasso Greek Yogurt bars, a frozen thing. Various flavors, but chocolate fudge is one. That flavor has 80 calories, 5g protein, and a bit of calcium, iron, and potassium. Some of the other flavors have 100ish calories. If you're very whole-foods purist, you may not like them as they are a processed food, and contain some gums which some think are a problem. Certainly, some people have digestive sensitivities to them even in small amounts, but that's similar to an allergenic response, not a universal thing. I eat mostly whole foods, but have no problem eating one of these.

Personally, I prefer things with traditional sugar sweeteners (sugar, honey, maple syrup, etc.) because I find most sugar substitutes unsatisfying and odd-tasting, and I have no reason to completely avoid them (like diabetes, insulin resistance, or spiked cravings/appetite). YMMV.

Ingredients list and nutrition info for the chocolate fudge Yasso bar:

Corina1143

Do you like pumpkin or sweet potatoes?
I mix sweet potatoes and cottage cheese in the blender, add vanilla and enough milk to barely blend. Blitz it until it's light and airy. Originally it's from a recipe for pumpkin mousse. They added sweetener and spices. Mine just evolved from that. Keeps in fridge several days.
I'm trying to up my fiber. I sometimes have fruit and yogurt topped with a little fiber one cereal(the sticks and twigs kind I said I'd never eat) for crunch.
Sometimes I have a Metamucil cracker (fiber) and coffee (decaf for me) with skim milk or almond milk and just a little bit of protein powder whipped in the blender until frothy. Somehow makes it seem richer and more decadent.

lisakatz2

Thanks for the suggestions, Ann. I like the frozen berry/Greek yogurt idea. Where can I buy PB powder?
I hear in mentioned in the forums from time to time, but I've never seen it.

I have difficulty moderating chocolate candy. I used to eat fun-size Snickers, but they left me yearning, and I'd end up eating 3 or 4 (or more) at times.

Those chocolate fudge Yasso bars look good. I'll look for them. I looked up the nutrition for Outshine Coconut Bars (my favorite flavor), they're 110 calories and have 3 grams of protein, not chock full of nutrients but it's something.

tomcustombuilder

Greek yogurt

lisakatz2

Corina, I'd like to try that fruit/yogurt/Fiber One idea. I've never had Fiber One cereal but mixed with the other ingredients it seems like it would be tasty. Granola is so insanely high in calories!

AnnPT77

lisakatz2 wrote: »

Thanks for t he suggestions, Ann. I like the frozen berry/Greek yogurt idea. Where can I buy PB powder?
I hear in mentioned in the forums from time to time, but I've never seen it.

I have difficulty moderating chocolate candy. I used to eat fun-size Snickers, but they left me yearning, and I'd end up eating 3 or 4 (or more) at times.

Those chocolate fudge Yasso bars look good. I'll look for them. I looked up the nutrition for Outshine Coconut Bars (my favorite flavor), they're 110 calories and have 3 grams of protein, not chock full of nutrients but it's something.

@lisakatz2, hereabouts - which is not a world center of cosmopolitan sophistication - pretty much all the larger grocery stores have some form of peanut butter powder. It's also on Amazon, and probably available via other online retailers. Are you in the US? I'd expect it to be available in most places in the US, dunno about internationally.

I've bought it at health-food-y groceries, but also places like Kroger, Meijer (big Midwestern chain) and the like. Even Walmart has it in its Great Value store brand, as well as listing some of the general branded versions online. These days, because I like it in my daily oatmeal, I buy big bags of PBFit brand at Costco. Another common brand is PB2, and that's one that has a chocolate peanut butter version.

At most places it's on a shelf near peanut butter, and the jars usually look similar so it may take some attentive looking. Costco has PBFit near the supplements/protein powders, and that comes in a bag.

It's not super low calorie, but it has some nice flavor and a bit of protein in moderate calories. My 8g of PBFit, about a tablespoon, has 35 calories, 4g protein. It's not a complete protein in EAA terms, but coincidentally peanut butter and oatmeal are protein complements - somewhat compensate for each others' EAA deficiencies - so that's convenient for me.

P.S. "Defatted peanut flour" is approximately the same thing. Some of the peanut butter powders have a little sugar, but a gram of sugar isn't something I'm going to stress about, personally. YMMV.

yirara

Sometimes I cut a carrot in chunks and throw it into a blender with cashew nuts, then eat it. It's sweet, has carbs and healthy fats. And it's actually quite tasty.

Aimee_LG2021

Corina1143 wrote: »

Do you like pumpkin or sweet potatoes?
I mix sweet potatoes and cottage cheese in the blender, add vanilla and enough milk to barely blend. Blitz it until it's light and airy. Originally it's from a recipe for pumpkin mousse. They added sweetener and spices. Mine just evolved from that. Keeps in fridge several days.
I'm trying to up my fiber. I sometimes have fruit and yogurt topped with a little fiber one cereal(the sticks and twigs kind I said I'd never eat) for crunch.
Sometimes I have a Metamucil cracker (fiber) and coffee (decaf for me) with skim milk or almond milk and just a little bit of protein powder whipped in the blender until frothy. Somehow makes it seem richer and more decadent.

I LOVE this cottage cheese and sweet potato idea....doing that today.

I often do the same with cottage cheese and berries (frozen)...it's so good.

springlering62

Baked pear with a light drizzle of honey. Maybe a teaspoon. For some reason that one is very filling.

If you have access to a ninja creami, a fruit sorbet. We made one last night with just mango and it was delicious. We usually use pineapple but that’s slightly higher calorie.

An ice cream made of 1/2 serving low fat yogurt, 1 serving sugar free pudding mix, a dash of vanilla extract and/or vanilla bean scraping, served in a sugar free root beer. Makes a terrific rootbeer float for under 100 calories.

springlering62

lisakatz2 wrote: »

Corina, I'd like to try that fruit/yogurt/Fiber One idea. I've never had Fiber One cereal but mixed with the other ingredients it seems like it would be tasty. Granola is so insanely high in calories!

Grape Nuts are awesome on cottage cheese and fruit.

Oh, if you’ve got a popsicle mold, mashed fruit, or yogurt mixed with fruit, jello or sugar free pudding makes a nice popsicle, for about 50 calories (they don’t hold much).