Calorie Destroyers

I've gotten that sort of "What the waste?" response lately to Oreos and Chips Ahoy.

At a potluck event Saturday night, I had a peach cobbler, which I declare to have been worth the calories, a chocolate chip cookie homemade with almond flour, which I declare worthy of further creation and consumption.

A Frito Scoop chip with a cheese sauce, though, failed to convince me that it had been worth the calories.

born_of_fire74 wrote: »

AnnPT77 wrote: »

born_of_fire74 wrote: »

AnnPT77 wrote: »

Halo Top. So much enthusiasm here on MFP, so not worth even its meager calories. IMO only, of course: Feel free to eat my share.

Most grocery store/packaged baked goods. Really not good enough to be worth even Halo Top calories.

I dunno. Using my shelled pistachio nut example: 8 pistachio nuts (30g) or 1 cup of Halo Top (250g)?

I agree that Halo Top is pretty sad as far as ice cream goes but it makes up for that sadness with the fact that I can eat an appreciable volume of it. Just sayin'

If those were my only two choices, I'd take the nuts. Halo Top, to me, is not "bad" . . . just curiously unsatisfying, at any volume. I eat it, and feel like I ate . . . nothing. Not worth the calories (and I'm a volume eater, in general). I like the nuts.

YMMV, and that's totally fine.

ETA: BTW, I think your calorie counts are off. USDA says shelled, salted pistachios are 200 calories per quarter cup (35g), using the Kroger Private Selections entry. Halo Top says Vanilla Bean is 70 calories per half cup, so your cup is 140 calories (more or less, depending on flavor, but about that). I get 24.5g of shelled pistachios for 140 calories, which is a bit under 3T . . . more than 8 kernals. (8 nuts sounded wrong to me, so I looked).

To each his own of course.

My pistachios were marked as 170cal/30g and I weighed them. Perhaps they were particularly dense? I'm also prone to exaggeration so I will extend you 12 kernels as a compromise LOL

By shelled, I mean the ones where it's all kernel, no shell in the bag. Could that be the difference? Shouldn't be since no one eats the shells but you never know. What I do is that they are even worse than the ones I have to shell myself because I don't have to slow down to get them out of the shell, I can just shovel them into my maw.

170 calories for 30g sounds right. But 30g of shelled pistachios is just under a quarter cup, not 8 kernals, unless you have incredible giant-sized ones, rather than normal ones. 12 is getting closer. I have some shelled ones in the fridge, but they've been there for a while (arguably too long) so wouldn't be a fair check for weight: Too dried out.

Shelled = no shell.
In shell, unshelled = still has shell.

There was one brand I bought where the serving size turned out to be post-shelling (i.e., edible part), even though they were sold in the shell, and it didn't say that. It became obvious when I looked them up.

I usually buy them in the shell for the reason you mention: It's a speed-bump, metaphorically. So I treat them like peel & eat fruit (e.g., oranges) when at home: Weigh unshelled, shell and eat, weigh shells, subtract.

I'd still rather have pretty much any number of them than Halo Top. I know, I'm weird, but Halo Top is just not worth the calories . . . pretty much no matter how few. I tried multiple flavors, eventually finished most (still meh), and finally threw out the last half-full container because it got mega old.