100 calorie snacks

MiaBella444 wrote: »

I should be up front and honest with you all. I am the kind of person who sees a white claw mango that is 100 calories and gets excited enough to give up eating to enjoy it after a long day at work. Something about the buzz is far more rewarding than eating.

While I'd never encourage someone to short-cut nutritional basics (protein, healthy fats, veggie/fruit servings) to do it, I personally think it's fine to fit something like that in, once the nutritional bases are covered.

Yes, alcohol is not good for a person health-wise, so maybe not all the time. But alcohol calories are just calories, from a weight loss perspective. If the buzz doesn't lower your inhibitions and make you over-eat, having one of those sometimes should be fine.

Others will disagree with this opinion, because, yes, technically alcohol is poison. Imma have some sometimes anyway.

ETA:

I guess I should add some more on-point nutrition-dense suggestions, not just be an aging party girl. I like crispy chickpeas (these are easy to make at home, but also available commercially), and dry-roasted soybeans. Enlightened brand crispy broadbeans are good, but they are a little more pricey. I enjoy individual string cheese (2% milkfat), and Greek yogurt (I usual do mix-it-myself with nonfat Greek yogurt, peanut butter powder, and frozen berries). You can eat quite a lot of home-popped seasoned popcorn (from kernels, not the pre-oiled microwave kind) for 100 calories.

I bue tuna at costco and just mix it up with eggs, oats, and whatever vegetable on hand. Fry them up in a pan and they come out like tuna nuggets (and some spices might make them taste less fishy). A few of them will be about 100. I also eat fage 0% mixed in with a bit of peanut butter- it’s more than a 100 calories buts it’s really filling- and paired with green apples it makes a good high fiber breakfast.