Foods with no calories. That you can eat as much as you like?

rileybailey420
rileybailey420 Posts: 1 Member
edited November 2024 in Recipes
Looking for foods with no calories that you can eat as much as you like to add to your meals ?

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  • kdaziz
    kdaziz Posts: 1 Member
    Everything has calories. That being said, most vegetables you can eat as much as you want because it would be pretty hard to get to, say, 200 calories of cucumbers and still be hungry
  • livingleanlivingclean
    livingleanlivingclean Posts: 11,750 Member
    Water.
  • HeidiCooksSupper
    HeidiCooksSupper Posts: 3,836 Member
    Not to sound rude but aren't we all? Even those things marked "zero calories" on the package are likely to have some calories since manufacturers are able to call anything with less than 5 calories per serving zero (in the US anyway). And contrary to popular mythology, there are no foods that take more calories to eat and digest than they contain.

    Sorry, there's no "free lunch."
  • JeromeBarry1
    JeromeBarry1 Posts: 10,185 Member
    Along the lines of the "water" answer: Soup! When you find yourself in the desperate situation of having nothing available other than grass, you make soup with water and grass, not so much to satisfy a desire of constantly filling your belly, but as a desperate effort to stay alive by making the grass calories more easily digested by you.

    Leverage this knowledge by making a soup of very low-calorie vegetables such as bok choy, celery, and dandelions. While I don't really recommend you do it, and I'm not going to try it myself, your desire of having a constantly filled belly at very low calories can be met this way.
  • estherdragonbat
    estherdragonbat Posts: 5,284 Member
    edited September 2017
    If you want LOW calorie, I make a cucumber salad with three English cukes (peeled or not, as you like) salted and left to stand overnight, then rinsed and drained and left for a couple of hours with a weight on top. Rinse and drain again. Put in a bowl and add a sliced onion, 1/2 tbsp sugar, pepper to taste, 1/2 cup of white vinegar and 1/4 cup of water. Let it chill a few hours, so the cucumber starts to pickle slightly.

    I don't track the calories in the salad, because as one of the posters pointed out, it's pretty low-cal, and also because even though I'm not under any sodium restriction, I don't want to see those numbers shoot up in my diary and I'm not sure how to log it when MOST, but not all, the salt gets rinsed away. But even with the sugar, I could probably eat the entire bowl at one sitting for 150 calories and I usually just take a ladle-ful.

    Otherwise, only water is truly zero calories. There are foods that say '0 calories' on the label and the reason for that is that foods with fewer than 5 calories per serving can be rounded down to zero. On stuff like mustard, pickles, cooking spray, or Splenda, many companies will tell you that a 'serving' is zero calories because a serving that size is 5 calories or fewer. So. Just making up numbers? Let's say that 40-gram pickle has 2 calories and therefore, the label will say "Serving Size: 40 grams. Calories: 0". BUT, the pickles in the jar don't all weigh 40 grams. And even if they do, let's say I take 200 grams of pickle. Well, 10 calories is negligible... but it's still not zero. And when I spray my frying pan with 'zero calorie Pam' but I use a 3-second blast instead of a 4/10 of a second blast? DEFINITELY not zero calories...
  • katsheare
    katsheare Posts: 1,025 Member
    The other way to look at this is what foods are you using in your kitchen that really pack on the calories? Be aware of grains (even whole grains), dairy, seeds and nuts. Oh, and be really careful about avocado. I love avo, but it is a calorie black hole!

    Try to take a 'dab will do you' approach to the higher calorie items and focus on the less calorie dense foods. Swaps like vegetable noodles (the courgette/zucchini one is well known, but I find celeriac/celery root really satisfying as well) instead of pasta - or really vegetables wherever you can - will start to help.

    What are you looking to do? You do need to be taking in calories throughout the day or your body won't work. If you're looking for some magic calorie-less food that will allow you to eat a whole cake and not have it impact your diet, I really hate to tell you this, but that science doesn't exist.

  • Lounmoun
    Lounmoun Posts: 8,423 Member
    All food has calories.
    There are a lot of vegetables that are very low calorie that you can use to bulk out your meals. Cucumber, spinach, lettuce, cabbage, carrots, broccoli, cauliflower, peppers, squash, zucchini, onion, celery, etc. Look them up.
  • Need2Exerc1se
    Need2Exerc1se Posts: 13,575 Member
    Every food except water/ice has calories and depending on the source that may even have trace amounts.

    But there are foods that I eat with abandon not caring about the small amount of calories - lettuces and leafy greens, fresh tomatoes, cucumber and celery, for example.
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