Poptarts?

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  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 49,023 Member
    Good tasting, high carbs, low fat. Great way to get your carbs up with a minimal amount of fat.

    A lot of bodybuilders eat them as a post/pre workout carb source.

    And then they die at age 50.
    Oh geez, I only have a year and a half of life left.


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  • robynatk
    robynatk Posts: 38
    That reminds me....better add these to my grocery list...ha ha ha
  • mishimouse101
    mishimouse101 Posts: 47 Member
    Oh boy, how many calories do I have left today for a sweet snack? No butter to make cinnamon toast or I would try that. You guys on higher calorie allowances may not have the same problem but the sugars are prohibitive for me at 1200 net calories a day/24 grams sugar. Have not mastered the solution to sweet cravings, even just fruit is knocking me off my targets so I keep it to one serving a day. Fun thread though, despite it discussing so many temptations.
  • Cold_Steel
    Cold_Steel Posts: 897 Member
    Oh boy, how many calories do I have left today for a sweet snack? No butter to make cinnamon toast or I would try that. You guys on higher calorie allowances may not have the same problem but the sugars are prohibitive for me at 1200 net calories a day/24 grams sugar. Have not mastered the solution to sweet cravings, even just fruit is knocking me off my targets so I keep it to one serving a day. Fun thread though, despite it discussing so many temptations.

    Good sweet craving coverage for me is

    Whatever I want then working out is my first option

    Second a piece of dark chocolate or semi sweet chocolate -

    Then again I dont track "sugar" at all my daily intake of fruit usually doubles my sugar daily,....
  • Contrarian
    Contrarian Posts: 8,138 Member
    I do not care for poptarts. I much prefer toaster strudels.
  • alexbusnello
    alexbusnello Posts: 1,010 Member
    I miss those :( now I want the s'mores. My favorite.
  • alexbusnello
    alexbusnello Posts: 1,010 Member
    I do not care for poptarts. I much prefer toaster strudels.

    I love those, too. I love both
  • GnochhiGnomes
    GnochhiGnomes Posts: 348 Member
    Never heard of them. I'll have to give them a try sometime.
  • Kebby83
    Kebby83 Posts: 232 Member
    My child put some in my cart the other day. (and who am I to get to the cashier and put them back? I just had to buy them).
  • OnionMomma
    OnionMomma Posts: 938 Member
    I do not care for poptarts. I much prefer toaster strudels.

    I love those, too. I love both
    Toaster Strudels win hands down!!! nom nom nom nom nom
  • momtokgo
    momtokgo Posts: 446 Member
    I haven't had a poptart in at least 10 years, and I don't plan on ever having one again....unless of course they come out with a gluten free one :)

    And I'm a terrible mother....my kids do not know what a poptart is. I could show them the box and they would have no idea.
  • cbevan1229
    cbevan1229 Posts: 326 Member
    I'm sitting here wondering why the frosted and un-frosted versions have exactly the same calories. I really need to look into a new hobby of some sort.

    Haven't had them in a while. Always ate them as a snack, not a meal. Usually able to eat just one. Thinking I might pick some up in the near future. There's what, 8 in a box? I'll get one, and my husband will polish off the other 7 before I can make it back to the box.
  • KuroNyankoSensei
    KuroNyankoSensei Posts: 288 Member
    Uwah, haven't had one for years ^^. Ate them all the time in middle school because they sold them there. My favorite is s'mores x3.
  • sky3z
    sky3z Posts: 190 Member
    Ate two today! Cookies n Creme.
  • slkehl
    slkehl Posts: 3,801 Member
    These things KILL my food diary
  • haylz247
    haylz247 Posts: 435
    200 Calories
    5 g of Fat
    140 mg of Sodium
    17 g of Sugar

    I can't believe people are saying they are good for you. :frown:
    let me know if i'm wrong, but i swear that's just for one pop tart?
  • geves08
    geves08 Posts: 1
    Pop Tarts have Dextros and is a descent simple sugar to consume post workout with your protein. Dextros helps the protein enter your muscles quicker.
  • RavenHershey0107
    RavenHershey0107 Posts: 38
    I love them and will continue to eat them. I am a moderation eater and I really don't give a flying flip what others think about it. My weightloss and overall health is all that matters and neither have been negatively effected so I don't see a problem. Smores are my favorite and I eat both at one time :O


    Edited to add: I see some people saying they make them hungrier or they feel hungry after an hour but they don't have that effedt on me.
  • VinnyI82
    VinnyI82 Posts: 19 Member
    Oh boy, how many calories do I have left today for a sweet snack? No butter to make cinnamon toast or I would try that. You guys on higher calorie allowances may not have the same problem but the sugars are prohibitive for me at 1200 net calories a day/24 grams sugar. Have not mastered the solution to sweet cravings, even just fruit is knocking me off my targets so I keep it to one serving a day. Fun thread though, despite it discussing so many temptations.

    Sometimes its not fun...at all. I need 5-6k kcals on weekdays due to my job. Try eating a healthy amount of food to equate up to that many calories. I'm almost always short by 1500-1800 on top of my normal 500 deficit due to the sole fact that I'd have to eat every 1.5 hours on the button. I just can't consume that much food.
  • RavenHershey0107
    RavenHershey0107 Posts: 38
    Poptarts are crap. Sorry, but if I'm going to eat 200 calories (and that's if I stick to just one), I'd rather hit some whole wheat pita with hummus, or an apple with a small bit of sharp cheddar, or perhaps some greek yogourt with frozen blueberries mixed in.

    Heck of a lot less chemicals, too. If I can't pronounce it, I don't eat it.

    ENRICHED FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMIN MONONITRATE [VITAMIN B1], RIBOFLAVIN [VITAMIN B2], FOLIC ACID), CORN SYRUP, HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, SUGAR, SOYBEAN AND PALM OIL (WITH TBHQ FOR FRESHNESS), DEXTROSE, CONTAINS TWO PERCENT OR LESS OF WHEAT STARCH, GLYCERIN, CRACKER MEAL, SALT, DRIED CHERRIES, DRIED APPLES, LEAVENING ( BAKING SODA, SODIUM ACID PYROPHOSPHATE, MONOCALCIUM PHOSPHATE), CITRIC ACID, CORN CEREAL, GELATIN, MALIC ACID, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED SOYBEAN OIL, XANTHAN GUM, MODIFIED CORN STARCH, MODIFIED WHEAT STARCH, SOY LECITHIN, RED 40, COLOR ADDED, TURMERIC EXTRACT FOR COLOR, YELLOW 6 LAKE, YELLOW 5 LAKE, VITAMIN A PALMITATE, NIACINAMIDE, REDUCED IRON, YELLOW 6, PYRIDOXINE HYDROCHLORIDE (VITAMIN B6), RIBOFLAVIN (VITAMIN B2), THIAMIN HYDROCHLORIDE (VITAMIN B1), FOLIC ACID, BLUE 1.

    Awsome! I can pronounce all the ingredients in your list so I'm good!
  • fmbomzo
    fmbomzo Posts: 382 Member
    I had the most energetic workout in a long time after I ate 2 poptarts. They are good for that if nothing else. And they taste good.
  • Lovinmetotally
    Lovinmetotally Posts: 3 Member
    They aren't for taste. The reason people who lift heavy eat pop tarts as PWO( post workout) meal, is they spike the insuline, which they also will drink their protein shake while eating the pop tarts. The insulin spike allows a window (anabolic timing) for the protein to be more fastly and effectivly absorbed into the muscles. Hence if you are building muscle you want all the protein you intake to be absorbed effectively,
  • Mikemax125
    Mikemax125 Posts: 108
    They aren't for taste. The reason people who lift heavy eat pop tarts as PWO( post workout) meal, is they spike the insuline, which they also will drink their protein shake while eating the pop tarts. The insulin spike allows a window (anabolic timing) for the protein to be more fastly and effectivly absorbed into the muscles. Hence if you are building muscle you want all the protein you intake to be absorbed effectively,

    Exactly
  • vanguardfitness
    vanguardfitness Posts: 720 Member
    I used to eat 1 pre workout and 1 post workout (strawberry). 100 calories for each pastry from what I remember. It's just straight up carbs for the most part. They taste better cold too
  • tommygirl15
    tommygirl15 Posts: 1,012 Member
    Oh man I haven't had a poptart in more than a decade, but now I'm totally going out to buy some!! What aisle of the grocery are they in?? (seriously, it's been that long...)
  • MichelleLaree13
    MichelleLaree13 Posts: 865 Member
    I would buy them when dieting and eat a half a pop tart because they are cheaper than the Special K Fruit crisps and taste nigh identical.

    Special K Fruit Crisp: 100 calories 7 grams sugar
    Half a strawberry pop tart: 100 calories 8 grams sugar

    Portion size and 1 gram of sugar are the difference between a "junk" snack and a low calorie diet snack.

    Congradulations on being able to open up the pack and only eat half of one pop tart. If I open the package, I just know it will be 400 calories I need to burn at the gym.
  • jayche
    jayche Posts: 1,128 Member
    They aren't for taste. The reason people who lift heavy eat pop tarts as PWO( post workout) meal, is they spike the insuline, which they also will drink their protein shake while eating the pop tarts. The insulin spike allows a window (anabolic timing) for the protein to be more fastly and effectivly absorbed into the muscles. Hence if you are building muscle you want all the protein you intake to be absorbed effectively,
    Incorrect, you don't need carbs to spike your insulin, protein does that sufficiently. Also the anabolic window is a lot larger than most make it out to be, it's not some magical 30 minute time limit to get all your nutrients in after a workout. People eat poptarts because they want to eat poptarts.

    To answer the OP it probably started with some beef in the youtube fitness community over "clean eating" and IIFYM/flexible dieting.
    Poptarts are basically IIFYM's poster food as it's considered unhealthy by most (it was also the main food product that started the whole debate).
  • theryan244
    theryan244 Posts: 65 Member
    They aren't for taste. The reason people who lift heavy eat pop tarts as PWO( post workout) meal, is they spike the insuline, which they also will drink their protein shake while eating the pop tarts. The insulin spike allows a window (anabolic timing) for the protein to be more fastly and effectivly absorbed into the muscles. Hence if you are building muscle you want all the protein you intake to be absorbed effectively,
    Incorrect, you don't need carbs to spike your insulin, protein does that sufficiently. Also the anabolic window is a lot larger than most make it out to be, it's not some magical 30 minute time limit to get all your nutrients in after a workout. People eat poptarts because they want to eat poptarts.

    To answer the OP it probably started with some beef in the youtube fitness community over "clean eating" and IIFYM/flexible dieting.
    Poptarts are basically IIFYM's poster food as it's considered unhealthy by most (it was also the main food product that started the whole debate).

    ^Truth.^ Ian McCarthy BRAHHH.
  • ravieira
    ravieira Posts: 1
    Great article on why bb'ers eat pop tarts;

    http://bmhfitness.weebly.com/3/post/2013/05/post-workout-poptarts.html
  • glassyo
    glassyo Posts: 7,757 Member
    Bumping because the guy who invented pop tarts, William Post, died.

    I'm pretty sure it wasn't a pop tart that took him out. 😀

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