Reverse thread: "Wow, that had how many calories??"

Progresso soups
Mission brand small corn tortillas, 3 for 120 calories. Perfect with tilapia, lettuce tomato and Bolthouse cilantro dressing for a fish taco.
Puffed wheat and puffed rice cereals.

Mussels! 12 calories each!

The way I make a simple grilled cheese sandwich, 208 calories.

A simple plate of bean and cheese nachos, 215 to 240 calories.

One Russell Stover nutty, chewy, or crispy chocolate, 73 calories.

Heart of Palm, 20 calories in half a cup! I love heart of palm but never considered the calories before. Now I keep it in stock at all times for days where I am having trouble staying in my calorie range due to a restaurant meal or family get together.

Lean Cuisine meals. I made the switch from grabbing fast food in a pinch to grabbing a frozen Lean Cuisine. So far I have had 54 different meals and of those, 20 were excellent and I have purchased them again. I also save gas and time.

I really wish this kind of thing was taught in school.

When I first looked up the calories on strawberries I was stoked! I used to eat half the pint and save the rest for another day. I can just go ahead and eat the entire pint.

Mustard and hot sauce where also pleasant discoveries.

CarvedTones wrote: »

VUA21 wrote: »

Pretty much every "kid" cereal. 1 serving (27g) of Cocoa Puffs only have 100 calories! Yes!

I was going to post this. I actually prefer almond milk on cereal; even the sweetened almond milk only adds 22 calories for 3 ounces, which is enough for an actual weighed serving of most cereal. The other surprise in cereals goes the other way - the ones that appear to be healthier choices geared toward adults are usually higher in calories. Often that is due to nuts. The ones you really have to watch out for is the granola based cereals.

But what you hear about kids' cereal being nearly all sugar is mostly old info; they reacted to the push back on that years ago, cut the sugar and added more whole grain. Most have become a reasonable choice as part of a healthy diet. Besides, they're magically delicious.

I add "kid's" cereal to my yogurt a lot. Lately it's been Cinnamon Frosted Flakes - so good and 28 grams is only about 100 calories.

Skyr yogurt high protein, low cals 😋

150g 98 calories 16.5g protein

scaye103092 wrote: »

Cashew milk! I love love love it and it’s only like 30 calories per serving! Perfect for mixing with protein powder for the full feeling and nutrients without using water to cut down calories. And the ‘pizza’ I make almost daily! Aldi fit&active flatbread is only 90 calories. With plain, no salt added, tomato sauce, .5 serving each mozz and sharp cheddar I can have a whole pizza for 210 calories, maybe a little more if I add olives or a ‘chikn’ patties, and it’s very filling!!

My favorite too! I'm lactose intolerant so I decided to try it, the Silk unsweetened is only 25 calories. Tastes so good with my whey isolate (which has very little if no lactose).

I am trying So Delicious Almond + Cashew Vanilla this week, it's sweetened, and only 50 calories. I don't care for almond by itself. This + protein powder, freaking delicious. I bought it to drink for a stand alone drink though as the protein powder is sweetened. I'm maintaining now so I don't mind the few extra calories, it is really good!

Walden Farms salad dressing! Zero calorie dressing means no guilt drowning my lettuce leaf in a pool of ranch.

Also curry with brown jasmine rice! My recipe gives me 360 calories for a serving but when I only eat 3 meals a day, and my other two average around 200-250 calories that’s a life saver and allows me a little snack room because I only get up to about 860 calories. My faaaaavorite low calories snack is some tuna with cucumber though 😍 or halo top lol the pancakes and waffles flavor is delicious!!

A small bag of chocolate peanuts had 470 cals!!! I only logged it after I ate it so I pretty much had to have lettuce for supper 😂