What foods are just not worth the # of calories?
pancakerunner
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A crossover of this thread and this thread . But I am curious, what foods are just not worth the # of calories to you?
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I'll start: while I like it enough, I don't think cheesecake is worth it.2
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Alfredo sauce
Cream-based soups
Pre-packaged baked goods
Factory candy bars
Granola
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SuzySunshine99 wrote: »Alfredo sauce
Cream-based soups
Pre-packaged baked goods
Factory candy bars
Granola
oooo granola. I agree.7 -
Avocado
Biscuits/Cookies
Cake/Pastries
Ice-Cream/Desserts in general
Chocolate
Bananas
Tahini
Full fat houmus
Full fat cottage cheese/yoghurt
Many Breads/bread products
Potatoes
Peanut Butter
Liquid calories (other than red wine, obv! 😂)
Oil/Butter for cooking.
Bechamel/flour based sauces
Lots and lots of things! I’m getting more restrictive as I get closer to goal weight.5 -
Still won’t let me edit! 🙄
Breakfast! Waste of calories for me, no matter what it consists of - just makes me hungrier!
Dairy based milk
Dried Fruit
Oh and nuts/seeds - love them as I do!9 -
Most wines and beers.
Fruit juices.
Most supermarket cakes and baked goods.
Edit: and breakfast cereals/granolas6 -
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Granola, oil/butter (in cooking, otherwise, butter on toast may be worth it sometimes), sugar (I just replace it with stevia or buy sugar free versions), full fat anything, rice, eggs and cheesecake.2
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Nuts. Most fruit.4
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Pepperoni.5
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Fried okra
Onion rings
I love both, but not that much.
Regular pizza. I love cleaned up, lower calorie pizza. (No oil, lean meat, like chicken instead of sausage), and veggies1 -
Nuts
Soda
Juice
Cereal7 -
Bad or meh versions of almost anything, or things that don't really boost flavor for me, e.g., most store-bought cookies, potato chips (crisps) other than the one brand I like, alcohol most of the time, whole milk on cereal, cream in my coffee (now that I've gotten used to it, I actually prefer it without), French fries (chips) most of the time except for places I know do them exceptionally well, mayo on most sandwiches, cheese on Tex/Mex/SW dishes if I'm also putting sour cream on them.
Also, in general, second helpings or extra large first helpings. For most things, it's the first few bites that taste best.
All of the above is about the taste to calorie pay-off. I would have a different list if we were talking about the nutrition to calorie pay-off8 -
Lots of the "healthy" fats, like avacado, nuts, peanut butter. I'm perfectly happy paying the calories for full fat dairy because the quality and flavor is worth it.
Tortilla chips
Juice
Tonic water
Rice
Most things made from white potato
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Cheap Halloween candy.
Dark chocolate (although I do miss good milk chocolate)
Fruit juice (although I very much miss fresh squeezed orange juice)
Alcohol (although I would indulge in one or two beers like once every six weeks if i could fit it into my calorie budget)2 -
Wow you guys pretty much covered everything I was going to say, don't have much to add but agree with everything that has been listed.
Also sugary coffee drinks, my own are 10x better and 1/5 the calories (like other said basically any liquid calories)
Mayo or any other high calorie condiment
Full calorie wraps/tortillas
Dried fruit of any kind
Smoothies
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Full fat milk
Nuts
Cream-based soups/ sauces2 -
Sodas!! They don’t satisfy my sweet tooth as much as ice cream would and ice cream has lots more nutrients in it!3
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Pizza rolls and chicken nuggets. My guilty pleasures but every time I see them at the store I look at the calorie counts and I just put them back.3
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There are many ways to answer this question because for me it is often situational. I do not eat a lot of bread because it has no satiety value for the calories spent. This includes light bread that is lower calories. Normally I would rather spend those calories on something that controls my hunger. However, if I want a sandwich I will make it work.
However, in the spirit of the thread:
Milkshakes. I can moderate them just fine so really a couple of sips is fine but since I have no interest in making them at home I either have to share the smallest one I can get or waste it.
Funnel Cake - Outgrew them I suppose. Had one on vacation last year and stopped eating it.
Most FF Burgers - If I just need some calories and I do not want grilled chicken I will get one but I seldom want one.
Real Ice Cream - too sweet. I prefer Halo.
PB2 - No thanks, if I want peanut butter just give it to me
Whoppers candy - outgrew it too apparently
Canned soup - I just hate almost all of them.
Frozen dinners - in a pinch but even the light ones are pretty caloric for the 3 bites of food you get.
Almost anything with reheated chicken breast in it - too dry
Almost anything with chicken from a crock pot recipe - cooked beyond dry and into shoe leather
Country/chicken Fried Steak - um, no
Pre-made meatballs - do the intentionally make them flavorless?
Soda - too sweet now
Anything that has artificial sweetener - even if the remaining ingredients added up to 5 it would not be worth it for the chemical flavor that I taste
Hazelnut anything
Pumpkin spice anything but pumpkin pie and even that once every 5 years or so
Savory dishes with cinnamon in them
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