Nutella is bad food ?

Mmmmmm. . . nutella is so good. Kroger has a "crunchy" version that is amazing!!!!

It may not be the healthiest food, but I think we need to get away from the good and bad, black and white food labeling.

If you want a somewhat healthy option, buy a low sugar, high cacao dark chocolate bar that has hazelnuts in it and breaks into squares, or buy plain hazelnut butter, no salt or sugar added, and mix it in a food processor with very low sugar, high cacao dark chocolate and maybe a couple of dates (for natural sweetness) and make your own spread.

The philosophy that has been working for me is to eat a moderate serving of the food that I really want. I want to have a tablespoon of the most delicious option on my small bowl of high fat yogurt, and then stop. I don't want to eat something I don't even like and pretend that it's a treat.

I like high cacao, low sugar, dark chocolate and hazelnuts/ hazelnut butter... I wasn't suggesting something that I don't like and "pretending it's a treat". I think most candy has WAY too much sugar and low quality fillers. It tastes like crap to me. Honestly, I'd be surprised if someone tried this and didn't like it as much or better.

I don't eat anything I don't like. I'm okay with Nutella, but my version is better and healthier. I think things like snickers bars are gross. They don't even taste like chocolate.

For health reasons, I cut most of the processed sugar and corn syrup from my diet (I never ate a lot of it anyway) years ago. After a couple of pretty easy months without, even attempting to eat it made me want to gag. Nutella is decent, but most candy in this country doesn't even taste good. It's terrible and anytime I eat a little, I wonder why I wasted the calories on something I didn't enjoy when I could have had a real treat. People have learned to like this stuff over years of eating enough junk to be desensitized to it. It's not even so much liking it, as it is an addiction. If you gave a Hershey's bar to someone who grew up on real foods, including treats like homemade baked goods, good chocolate, etc, they would spit it in your face. It doesn't taste like a treat. It doesn't even taste like food.

If I am going to spend 190 calories on a treat (because really, who eats less than 2 tablespoons of Nutella), it is going to be the best treat I can get. In my mind, the suggestion I gave is not only healthier, but tastier. If the OP disagrees, that's fine, as long as he/she is not actually thinking that Nutella is a healthy choice as opposed to a treat, which it seems like he was.

OMG please tell me this question and thread does not exist.

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1002633-3-ingredient-nutella-brownies?hl=nutella+brownies
:drinker:

I don't care if nutella is a bad food, it's my life.

I CANNOT LIVE WITHOUT NUTELLA.

Ok, it's horrifyingly high in calories, fat and above all, sugar, but its sooooo worth it.

"Bad" food?

Did Nutella kick a puppy dog?
Did Nutella get anyone fired from their job?
Did Nutella sleep with someone else's partner?

No?

Then no, Nutella is not a "bad" food. Eating Nutella by the jarful every day might be a bad practice, however.

....i could get fired for Nutella addiction...

I would chose nutella over a lover. I would have an affair with nutella.

I think it just depends really. If a little spoon of nutella keeps you from downing hershey bars, then that makes sense. If one little bite leads to eating the whole jar, then that does not make sense. Use your own judgement and personal experience on whether or not you can handle nutella.

Nutella is yummy! My favorite snack is spreading it on a graham cracker. It is good, if you make the snack and then out the container away...lol. Do not have it close to you with a spoon.

its gross.
yuk

Nutella is good in moderation. But very high calorie. I have found Philadelphia Cream Cheese makes a product called Snack Delights that you can get in milk chocolate flavor. It only has 110 calories in the same serving size as opposed to 200 in Nutella. And it tastes great.

I found a jar of nutella i'd completely forgotten about, and just plunged my finger right in there and had a fingerful of nutella. it was VERY unhealthy. bordering on just plain rude.

Very unsanitary, to be sure. :laugh:

If you think nutella is hard to moderate you should try cookie butter.

The worst thing about cookie butter is trying to figure out what to put it on. Graham crackers? Animal cookies? Am I really putting COOKIE butter on COOKIES???

I literally cannot have Nutella or Biscoff in the house.

If eating nutella is wrong, I don't want to be right.

I do agree that no food is bad food if eaten in moderation. I love nutella on a graham cracker, it totally satisfies my need for something sweet. The nutella add is so misleading, stating that it is made from hazelnuts and milk, when sugar is the first ingredient. Oh, and sardines on triscuits with a real coke is food of the gods.

There is no such thing as "Health Food." Any claims to be such is just a marketing technique.

I define "health food" as any food that has a positive nutritive value for my body. Nutella does not, sadly, though it does make my soul happy.....until my pants are too tight.