Avocados?

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  • emmgetsfit
    emmgetsfit Posts: 203 Member
    pros: guacamole

    ^ This. Love me some guac.
  • CINNAMON77_00
    CINNAMON77_00 Posts: 50 Member
    I read on a post here once that Avocados are a healthy person's Bacon. Yum!! My hubby can have his freaking bacon, I will take the avocado!! :)
  • jenna715
    jenna715 Posts: 201
    is it just me or do avocados not have as many cals as people think? For a long time I was logging them as avocado half - 120 cals. Someone in this thread posted that half an avocado was 160 cals. When I bought a food scale and actually weighed a half(without the skin), most of the time the grams in half of an avocado came to about 100 cals or less. This is using the avocado (correct net carbs non branded california grown) 136.0g = 227cals entry in the database. On average for me, half an avocado usually is about equal to 0.44 serving (100 cals). This has been true for large and small avocados for me, because the pit is large in large avocados and small in smaller ones, so the flesh is about the same.
  • Goosiesnougs
    Goosiesnougs Posts: 420
    Toxic to chickens
  • rmchapman4
    rmchapman4 Posts: 152 Member
    I eat a whole one on most days and I'm still losing weight.
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    I concur; perfect with a hint of lime juice and ripe banana!
  • Confuzzled4ever
    Confuzzled4ever Posts: 2,860 Member
    pros: guacamole

    ^^ THIS!!!

    I put them in everything.. salad, greek yogurt, egg salad, sandwiches, burgers, fish or just eat them as is..

    mmmm.. now I wish I had brought one to work with me! LOL


    Also to answer the nutrition question above..
    http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/fruits-and-fruit-juices/1843/2

    150g of avocado = 240 calories... I just guesstimate mine, but that's the official number i beleive.
  • nygrl4evr
    nygrl4evr Posts: 196 Member
    bump...love the info!!
  • HartJames
    HartJames Posts: 789 Member
    I read on a post here once that Avocados are a healthy person's Bacon. Yum!! My hubby can have his freaking bacon, I will take the avocado!! :)

    I just had my avocado on toast with a fried egg AND turkey bacon :)
  • Bobtheangrytomato
    Bobtheangrytomato Posts: 251 Member
    I like them with this peanut sesame dressing I found.....soooo good. But I can't stop from eating a whole one if I eat it like that :(

    Edit: they're really good in omelettes.
  • JJLara86
    JJLara86 Posts: 3 Member
    They don't burn fat, they provide you with the "good fats." Enjoy them but with moderation!! :)
  • OzarkMountainMan
    OzarkMountainMan Posts: 42
    Yum, I'm going to try that! It sounds delicious.
  • MissJanet55
    MissJanet55 Posts: 457 Member
    Keep the pit in.

    ... and sprinkle with lemon juice and cover the exposed part

    Exactly this.

    I love them, and they are great stuffed with some kind of yummy protein heavy food. Enjoy them!
  • Sonriendo
    Sonriendo Posts: 98
    I love Avocados.... I like to buy the tiny ones... than eat a whole one as a P.M. Snack.... Yum!!!
  • OzarkMountainMan
    OzarkMountainMan Posts: 42
    I love them. When I'm low on my fat intake for the day, they are a happy way to balance it out! I love it mashed up with green onions, cilantro, lime juice... I'll use that instead of mayo to make a chicken salad sandwich.

    Yum, sounds great. I'm going to try that.
  • sushiforbrains
    sushiforbrains Posts: 60
    Avocados are great for so many things. I love to put half or so of an avocado in a small can of tuna with lemon juice and some spices, amazing tuna salad! I also use avocado in place of mayo on turkey burgers, and if I know I am going to have a day where I need a big breakfast, I make a sandwich with sliced turkey, tomato, provolone, a fried egg, and avocado. (Of course, sometimes I make one of these to split with my hubby.)
    Also, guacamole, on everything, all the time!
  • KANGOOJUMPS
    KANGOOJUMPS Posts: 6,474 Member
    YUM!!! good for ya!
  • ScarletFyre
    ScarletFyre Posts: 754 Member
    Bump
  • dutrall
    dutrall Posts: 1
    I've found the best solution for keeping the avacado from going brown. I have a Food Saver system (the machine that vacuum seals food in plastic. I usually have half an avacado in my salad and then save the rest for a salad later in the week and the avacado is just as "white" and not slimy at all more than a week later. Usually, the other half is long gone before then, but I've forgotten it in the fridge and was shocked at how long it held up.

    I also use it as a substitue for mayo in a BLT sandwich. YUM!
  • lizlkbg
    lizlkbg Posts: 566
    Toxic to chickens

    For reals?
    How toxic? Like one bite and the chicken dies? Or do you have to cram several down the chicken's throat?
    Do chickens even like avocados?
  • Bbwnomore2
    Bbwnomore2 Posts: 225 Member
    I like the florida ones a lil better. Have heard them called the slim avacados, but believe their numbers run almost side by side.
  • Goosiesnougs
    Goosiesnougs Posts: 420
    Toxic to chickens

    For reals?
    How toxic? Like one bite and the chicken dies? Or do you have to cram several down the chicken's throat?
    Do chickens even like avocados?

    Generally speaking I don't cram anything down my birdies throats..........I had been composting them for a while. I know they had eaten the little I may have left in the skin, so not one bite and you've got a chicken to bury. I read it in my "chicken raising" book.
    I stopped putting the skins in the compost and just throwing them out instead. But yes, chickens like avocados, and ham and their own eggs when I scramble them, (and raw) and soy milk and pizza crust and cooked chicken and beef and lettuce and meal worms and cabbage and yogurt and bugs.........Get where I'm going with this? They also have the laying pellets:) I have food compactors in my coop that lay beautiful eggs every day! They LOVE scraps from my kiddos plates. And I love their eggs! 2 of my girls even lay blue eggs.

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