How do I live without chips?
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I usually eat a pack, but pick healthier choices like Beetroot crisps, Sunbites pitta crisps, Kettle bites all around 100 calories a bag.0
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I'm not a big sandwich bread person, unless it's a really good specialty bread that totally makes the sandwich (looking at you New Orleans muffalatta bread).
If you're looking for the crunch and salt combo, I'd substitute crackers for the bread and have mini open face cracker sandwiches. Think cheese and crackers with your choice of protein. Or keep eating your sandwiches and do single servings of chips. Like you, when I was packing sandwiches for lunch, I'd try to be healthy and do raw veggies instead of chips but I missed the salty crunch texture with the soft sandwich texture and it felt like a letdown.
Remember, this is a lifestyle change so you need to do what is sustainable for you. If I had to give up chocolate or cheese for a diet, I'd be a miserable person to be around.1 -
This is a shout out to the other posters who love the Special K cracker chips - I love these things, and I have them literally every night to satisfy my salty crunchy cravings. I weigh out the 20 gram portion (80-90 calories0 and find that the amount is just right. they come in salt and vinegar, bbq, dill and sour cream, popcorn (I think) and plain - I always have several boxes on hand to change up the flavours. I am a chipaholic and these crackers have helped immensely.0
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extra_medium wrote: »If there's something I can't give up I just add a bit gym time and make it fit. I do an extra 6 hrs on the treadmill for my daily jar of peanut butter habit.
You eat a whole jar of peanut butter a day? AND do 6 HOURS on the treadmill?? Wow, you must really love peanut butter!! Lol Now that's commitment!
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BiggDaddy58 wrote: »I have substituted Special K cracker chips ( different flavors) 25 chips=120 calories and also Good Thins (different flavors) 22-24 chips for 130 calories roughly
Good Thins are awesome! They Have several different flavors.0 -
Mmm you can try rice cakes! Just crumb them into semi big pieces and dress them up with hot sauce, chile powder and lemon. I love chips too0
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I love chips amd won't give them up. I eat the snack size bags and keep within the calorie count.1
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Sugar snap peas if you want a substitute. Chips if that's what you want. I eat baked Lay's mostly because they are less greasy, but that's about hating how oil makes my skin feel. I am super picky about lotion for the same reason. Make the foods you enjoy fit. This is a forever change in lifestyle so I eat less chips than I used to, as in not every day AND smaller servings when I eat them. The same thing goes for ice cream, but I certainly ate that today. It's my son's birthday and he doesn't like cake so we had ice cream for dessert. (I am over my calories today, but I will ear less the next couple of days to make it fit my weekly goals. He will never have another 10th birthday.)
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I still eat chips, I just don't eat the whole bag in one sitting anymore lol.0
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I got my Quest chips today! They're awesome! 21 grams of protein!
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Dried apple slices are great too nice crunchy0
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if i get chips I try to get the little individual bags- so I won't eat so much. I like baked chips but i love the pop corners0
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im not a chocolate girl im a salt/savory food person. i make it work. Currently eating some lays bbq chips as we speak.0
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Costco has Tostidos bean chips. 5g of protein and fiber per serving I also like Triscuits, they have 3g of protein and fiber. Also, keep in mind, you don't have to eat a whole serving. When I snack, I like to have a little variety of this and that, so I'm usually measuring out a half serving of things. 0
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It's hard for a while but in time you get used to not having junk food. How about a nice crunchy pickle?0
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If salt isn't a problem, consider puppodums. It's an Indian food. I usually get Sharwood's Spicy Puppodums. Each one is a flat disk about the diameter of a small corn tortilla, but thinner. You put them in the microwave (briefly, watching carefully, because they burn quickly). In 30 seconds or so, it will puff slightly, turn wrinkly, and grow a bit. It's salty, slightly spicy, 20 calories each, and (because it's mostly chickpea flour) has about 1.5g protein, 3.3g carbs.
Also worth trying: this recipe for Dorito flavored popcorn. I wouldn't say it tastes exactly like Doritos, but it's pretty darned good.0 -
If salt isn't a problem, consider puppodums. It's an Indian food. I usually get Sharwood's Spicy Puppodums. Each one is a flat disk about the diameter of a small corn tortilla, but thinner. You put them in the microwave (briefly, watching carefully, because they burn quickly). In 30 seconds or so, it will puff slightly, turn wrinkly, and grow a bit. It's salty, slightly spicy, 20 calories each, and (because it's mostly chickpea flour) has about 1.5g protein, 3.3g carbs.
Also worth trying: this recipe for Dorito flavored popcorn. I wouldn't say it tastes exactly like Doritos, but it's pretty darned good.
Do you mind telling me the brand you get, especially the one that's spicy? Would these be sturdy enough to to be like a tostada? To hold like mashed beans and shredded chicken?0 -
miconsumafuoco wrote: »If salt isn't a problem, consider puppodums. It's an Indian food. I usually get Sharwood's Spicy Puppodums. Each one is a flat disk about the diameter of a small corn tortilla, but thinner. You put them in the microwave (briefly, watching carefully, because they burn quickly). In 30 seconds or so, it will puff slightly, turn wrinkly, and grow a bit. It's salty, slightly spicy, 20 calories each, and (because it's mostly chickpea flour) has about 1.5g protein, 3.3g carbs.
Also worth trying: this recipe for Dorito flavored popcorn. I wouldn't say it tastes exactly like Doritos, but it's pretty darned good.
Do you mind telling me the brand you get, especially the one that's spicy? Would these be sturdy enough to to be like a tostada? To hold like mashed beans and shredded chicken?
I did. Sharwood's Spicy Puppodums. Amazon has them here.
No, I don't think they would be sturdy enough to substitute for a tostada - think of them as a giant chip. They're very crispy, and once microwaved, not at all flat.
Personally, I don't find Food for Life Sprouted Corn Tortillas excessively caloric to use in tostadas, at 60 calories each. They crisp up decently (not quite like fully fried ones, though) in a dry cast-iron frying pan.0 -
Fantastic delites are low enough in calories to eat occasionally. I think the key is not to give up anything completely. :-)0
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kpeterson539 wrote: »I buy a big bag of whatever chip I want. Bring the big bag home and weight an individual portion into ziplog bags. It's already pre-portioned and ready to go. And yes, I log it and I do stop at one bag....but it has satisfied my chip cravings.
I love this idea!0 -
miconsumafuoco wrote: »If salt isn't a problem, consider puppodums. It's an Indian food. I usually get Sharwood's Spicy Puppodums. Each one is a flat disk about the diameter of a small corn tortilla, but thinner. You put them in the microwave (briefly, watching carefully, because they burn quickly). In 30 seconds or so, it will puff slightly, turn wrinkly, and grow a bit. It's salty, slightly spicy, 20 calories each, and (because it's mostly chickpea flour) has about 1.5g protein, 3.3g carbs.
Also worth trying: this recipe for Dorito flavored popcorn. I wouldn't say it tastes exactly like Doritos, but it's pretty darned good.
Do you mind telling me the brand you get, especially the one that's spicy? Would these be sturdy enough to to be like a tostada? To hold like mashed beans and shredded chicken?
I did. Sharwood's Spicy Puppodums. Amazon has them here.
No, I don't think they would be sturdy enough to substitute for a tostada - think of them as a giant chip. They're very crispy, and once microwaved, not at all flat.
Personally, I don't find Food for Life Sprouted Corn Tortillas excessively caloric to use in tostadas, at 60 calories each. They crisp up decently (not quite like fully fried ones, though) in a dry cast-iron frying pan.
Sorry, I started Googling what puppodums were right away and I guess I glazed over the name... lol Thanks, I'll see if I can get my hands on some! I might also try the Dorito popcorn but without the nutritional yeast.0 -
If you want crunch then toast your bread and add some onion, lettuce and tomato or thin sliced greenhouse cucumber. Stay away from the chips. All of them.
Have an apple after. Try and get some nutrition in that crunch. No chips for me, thank you1 -
This is a great question. Chips are amazing. Try avocado oil potato chips. Or homemade sweet potato chips! The bomb!0
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I've tried many substitutes. They're just nothing like a Wise potato chip every once and while. I work them in as everyone else has suggested; sometimes I'll eat popcorn if I feel the need for salty snacks.0
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At lunch time, I have a "side" dish so to speak. If I'm having bagels or wraps, I'll have carrot and Celery sticks and a boiled Egg. That generally only comes to about 100 calories which isn't bad compared to chips or a bag of crisps. If I'm having salad, I'll have walkers sunbites flavoured popcorn (about 70-80 calories flavour dependant) or walkers sunbites flavoured popped triangles which are literally just like crisps/dorritos but only similar calories to the popcorn. I do buy other brands than walkers sunbites and there are some other great alternatives, but I'm a bit addicted to these at the moment just because they have so much flavour0
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miconsumafuoco wrote: »I love crunchy stuff to eat with my meals, especially with sandwiches. Now that I'm counting calories, chips are just not worth eating. I've tried having baby carrots with my sandwiches and that helps, and air popped popcorn, but plain is not great and adding butter or coconut oil adds too many calories. Any ideas?
I love to eat carrot sticks with sandwiches. You could also eat cucumber or cut up bell peppers.0 -
miconsumafuoco wrote: »miconsumafuoco wrote: »If salt isn't a problem, consider puppodums. It's an Indian food. I usually get Sharwood's Spicy Puppodums. Each one is a flat disk about the diameter of a small corn tortilla, but thinner. You put them in the microwave (briefly, watching carefully, because they burn quickly). In 30 seconds or so, it will puff slightly, turn wrinkly, and grow a bit. It's salty, slightly spicy, 20 calories each, and (because it's mostly chickpea flour) has about 1.5g protein, 3.3g carbs.
Also worth trying: this recipe for Dorito flavored popcorn. I wouldn't say it tastes exactly like Doritos, but it's pretty darned good.
Do you mind telling me the brand you get, especially the one that's spicy? Would these be sturdy enough to to be like a tostada? To hold like mashed beans and shredded chicken?
I did. Sharwood's Spicy Puppodums. Amazon has them here.
No, I don't think they would be sturdy enough to substitute for a tostada - think of them as a giant chip. They're very crispy, and once microwaved, not at all flat.
Personally, I don't find Food for Life Sprouted Corn Tortillas excessively caloric to use in tostadas, at 60 calories each. They crisp up decently (not quite like fully fried ones, though) in a dry cast-iron frying pan.
Sorry, I started Googling what puppodums were right away and I guess I glazed over the name... lol Thanks, I'll see if I can get my hands on some! I might also try the Dorito popcorn but without the nutritional yeast.
Gotta say, the nutritional yeast is one part that makes them taste somewhat Dorito-like, and it also adds a little protein, but it's your call - I'm assuming you don't care for it.0 -
Here we have smart food popcorn in different flavours for 35 calories a cup1
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Instead of chips get se nice firm grapes to snack on 0
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melaniehubbard wrote: »Here we have smart food popcorn in different flavours for 35 calories a cup
I found this too! It's pretty good and with my scale I can adjust to have a full serving or just a handful or so to get have a crunchy salty treat. Hits the spot!0
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