a gazillion dollars to the inventor of the rice cake and whoever made us think it was a "diet" food
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hortensehildegarde
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Why do people believe rice cakes are "diet" foods? they are terribly calorie laden for the actual food you get.
Now don't get me wrong, I LOVE rice cakes (am halfway through a package just now myself, may eat the rest of the package yet) but they aren't exactly healthy.
Maybe I just answered my own question in realizing if you are going to eat an entire package of something rice cakes is better than a jumbo bag of chips. But really, we should be getting past the "I MUST EAT THE ENTIRE BAG" mentality I would think.
I still think the people who tried to make rice cakes indoctrinated as a "diet" food are evil.
Now don't get me wrong, I LOVE rice cakes (am halfway through a package just now myself, may eat the rest of the package yet) but they aren't exactly healthy.
Maybe I just answered my own question in realizing if you are going to eat an entire package of something rice cakes is better than a jumbo bag of chips. But really, we should be getting past the "I MUST EAT THE ENTIRE BAG" mentality I would think.
I still think the people who tried to make rice cakes indoctrinated as a "diet" food are evil.
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Because they taste bad0
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Aren't they like 35-40 calories?0
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Wut? :huh:0
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Aren't they like 35-40 calories?
the ones I am eating are 45 calories a piece, which is insane for their weight. I typically want to eat at least 8 of them once I start in on them.
And sacrilege to those who say they taste bad! Actually I dunno, they might taste bad to some. I eat the white cheddar kinds and they taste as yummy to me as any other popcorn or puffed rice does. Of course I am also the sort of person who finds cauliflower and string beans super yummy, they just happen to be a LOT more calorie friendly than my arch-enemy, the rice cake.0 -
Relatively low cal, filling. Tastes like dried cat entrails. What is not to like?0
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They make horrible ice cream sandwiches.
Use pop-tarts.0 -
they have corn in them and i am allergic to corn, so i don't eat them. plus, they taste like cardboard.0
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hortensehildegarde wrote: »Aren't they like 35-40 calories?
the ones I am eating are 45 calories a piece, which is insane for their weight. I typically want to eat at least 8 of them once I start in on them.
And sacrilege to those who say they taste bad! Actually I dunno, they might taste bad to some. I eat the white cheddar kinds and they taste as yummy to me as any other popcorn or puffed rice does. Of course I am also the sort of person who finds cauliflower and string beans super yummy, they just happen to be a LOT more calorie friendly than my arch-enemy, the rice cake.
Okay yeah the ones with the fake powder stuff on it do taste good, but that's the powder, not the rice cake
Plain ones, you have to slather with peanut butter and honey and then whats the point?0 -
I have never regarded them as a diet food didnt realise they were touted as such.0
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I don't think they've really been a popular diet food since like, the 80s, anyway.0
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EvgeniZyntx wrote: »Tastes like dried cat entrails. What is not to like?
LMFAO!!!!!!!!!!0 -
Thank a lot. Now I want a rice cake...0
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weren't they considered such during the fad diets of rice and grapefruit?0
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PlaydohPants wrote: »I think they're like eating Styrofoam. Tasting terrible only further sells the fact that it's "diet food" haha!
yes! they are like eating styrofoam! I think that's part of the allure. MMMMMM delicious foam. (Who doesn't like foam?!?)0 -
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I will keep it short! What type of rice cake are you referring to. Korean, Japanese, Chinese, South Eastern Countries or Indian?0
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One time I tried to make a pb2+ sugar free jelly sandwich on something likened to a rice cake:
By time it was lunch time, it was soggy, inedible, and smelled like vomit. It was a low point in my life
It made me wish I had real rice cakes, I would've eaten anything BUT that at that point
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I have never regarded them as a diet food didnt realise they were touted as such.
thank you! I didn't realize how old and outdated I was and that the kids these days aren't trying to stuff rice cakes like they do juicing.
Now (again) don't get me wrong, I love rice cakes to bits, I just don't think people should be lured into thinking they will help any weight-loss efforts.
You (and a lot of others) are apparently too young for this, but a long time ago we were led to believe eating rice cakes would lead to weight loss.
You hear that kiddos!?! Does that sound stupid?!? If that sounds silly question any other blanket statements you are given.0 -
Too much sodium for me!0
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