Foods that have FEWER calories than you thought

I use to live in another neighborhood some 25 miles away and there was a superb French bakery/restaurant there, my goodness they had the most AMAZING baguettes! melt in your mouth delicious! I want one so bad now!

Blueberries! I had 25g of them on my cereal yesterday and MFP listed that as 12 cals!

Salad. A Pret chicken Caesar salad without the dressing is well under 200 calories and feels like a proper lunch.

I'm always amazed that a massive bowl of lettuce and cucumber comes in at around 20 cals not 100.

Wasabi peas. In Chinatown you can buy tiny packets of them (like you get on airlines) that are only 50 cals but a great snack when you get in from work.

Goats cheese, I love that stuff and it actually turned out to be really decent, for cheese!

segacs wrote: »

Merkavar wrote: »

That makes sense just never heard it referred to as French bread, that's why I thought French toast.

What Americans call French bread, the rest of us call baguette.

Sounds like some fancy French word for bread.

Light string cheese I love and was surprised it only had 50 calories and 7g of protein to boot! I also noticed in my quest for more protein rich foods that a bag of jerky has 42g (jacks links) and only 240 calories for the entire bag; a great snack.

The ham I like - for some reason I thought it had 90 cals per slice. Turns out it has 38 cals!

Popcorn and watermelon.

I'm a volume eater and I can eat a sh!tload of those two for half the calories of a normal meal!

There are a lot of sort of lighter cheeses that I was surprised to find were pretty reasonable. Eggs and egg whites where kind of surprising. I guess that combination explains why omelettes make regular appearances on my

Lots of seafoods surprised me, things like oysters and shrimp.

Those fat free or sugar free flavored creamers. I just assumed those would be like freebasing Crisco, but I'll be darned if they aren't pretty reasonable.

Things like green and red hot sauces and salsas, so long as they aren't the sweet ones. Sriracha is not nearly as bad as so many other condiments.

Oh, and the fat free puddings (the ones you mix yourself, not the pre-made cups). You can gorge yourself pretty solidly on those for the same calories as a cup of ice cream.

oooh, I forgot that I was shocked how similar in calories something like Captain Crunch was to some "healthy" cereals. I'll forgo the three extra vitamins if it means breakfast isn't a chore.

segacs wrote: »

Merkavar wrote: »

That makes sense just never heard it referred to as French bread, that's why I thought French toast.

What Americans call French bread, the rest of us call baguette.

And in France we have baguette (normale, a l'ancienne), ficelle, pain a l'ancienne, fougasse boule, pain de lait, pain de campaigne, etc...

French Toast is called "lost bread" - pain perdu.



As to the "fewer" cal food - 0.2% Quark and Petit Suisse - super high protein, low cal, yummy.

Pumpkin, cottage cheese, parmesan cheese, and ketchup.

Dove chocolate! Also veggie sticks (these chips made out vegetables that taste amazing). Pop corn and meats.

4leighbee wrote: »

I eat a lot of 200ish foods scattered throughout the day, so I'm always amazed when I eat a homemade burger or some chicken and they are in the same neighborhood as the nuts I had as an afternoon snack or the Clif bar I ate after working out. My dinner should somehow be more calories, lol! Also ... Ruffles potato chips are my weakness. We had them in the house for the Superbowl and, hungry (duh), I shoved about eight or ten in my mouth and logged them sheepishly that night. Not bad - thought I had ruined the day, but not so. Still - they are highly addictive and should just stay at the store.

I have a weakness for kettle chips, so I feel you. I buy snack bags from Trader Joe's so they're already pre-portioned into 150 calorie servings, and while I don't have them often - when the craving hits, it's nice to know that I can just grab a bag and fit one into my day if I want to.

Traditional French Bread (French loaf, Baguette) has fewer calories because it is traditionally made without fat. That is also why it goes stale so quickly. Be careful though as some non-French bakeries make it with fat so it keeps longer.

Air popped popcorn contains the same amount of calories before and after it has popped, so you get a large volume for your cals. But it is quite high GI so will spike blood sugar levels and make you hungry later.

You can make a large stir-fry with lots of vegetables like kale, beansprouts, peppers. Fry with a tiny amount of oil (or none at all, just use a tablespoon of water and a very hot wok). Flavour with salt and pepper, a little soy sauce - big plate, few calories.

Sweet potatoes, butternut squash, potatoes, berries, green veg, toms, ham, prawns, 0 % greek yoghurt, fish, chicken, turkey, duck.
Go ahead bars, small packets of crisps, almond milk,

The Dq double cheeseburger I had yesterday was only 600 calories. I was shocked! I can easily make a burger at home with more calories than that.