What foods are just not worth the # of calories?
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Mashed potatoes are not worth it!4
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Regular/full fat ice cream
supermarket 'sad' sandwich bread
sour cream/full fat cream cheese
mayo (hate it anyways)
fruit juices
sodas
Starbuck-type specialty beverages
potato chips
donuts
Yeah, I always buy neufchatel/low-fat cream cheese. Tastes every bit as good to me, if not better, plus it's softer right out of fridge (in the brick form, not the whipped tubs), so it's easier to spread than the brick version of full-fat cream cheese. The only thing remotely approaching a downside is because it's soft, it's a little more difficult to slice off a precise amount for a recipe using the measuring lines on the foil. But hey, I've got this nifty thing called a food scale sitting on the counter, so not really an issue ...3 -
Pizza - too many years working as a waitress in a pizzeria. Also, when you see teenage boys making dough with their bare hands one too many times....the novelty wears off
Ice cream - too many years working as a staff in an ice cream shop. Ironically, I can still probably stomach REAL ice cream once a year or so.2 -
Brioche4
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Pizza - too many years working as a waitress in a pizzeria. Also, when you see teenage boys making dough with their bare hands one too many times....the novelty wears off
Ice cream - too many years working as a staff in an ice cream shop. Ironically, I can still probably stomach REAL ice cream once a year or so.
this is how I feel about frozen yogurt bars and all the toppings... overdid it one too many times haha0 -
Donuts - sugary fat bombs
Most restaurant meals.5 -
Donuts - sugary fat bombs
Most restaurant meals.
I agree with both...typical restaurant chains are definitely not worth it (in my experience), however dining at super high end restaurants can absolutely be worth every bite! Even some little 'hole' in the wall places can also be worth it too.2 -
Pastries/cakes/donuts/bread that's stale or old. Nuts with no salt- salted nuts are another story. Fries that don't have enough salt or no salt on them. Same for homemade mac and cheese with hardly any salt. I'm a huge salt fan. Fried foods that are cold or lukewarm- they have to be hot. Beverages with sugar in them- I love diet coke.1
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I like unsalted walnuts and chestnuts, but other nuts really need a little salt.domeofstars wrote: »(...) Nuts with no salt- salted nuts are another story. (...) Beverages with sugar in them- I love diet coke.
And +1 on non-diet soda. My body doesn't even register that they have calories...0 -
I completely cut out ramen noodles from my life a year ago.3
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Pretty much anything from Starbucks.6
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Donuts - sugary fat bombs
Most restaurant meals.
I agree with both...typical restaurant chains are definitely not worth it (in my experience), however dining at super high end restaurants can absolutely be worth every bite! Even some little 'hole' in the wall places can also be worth it too.
Agree on chain restaurants... totally not worth it! Unless there is the nostalgia factor0 -
Donuts - sugary fat bombs
Most restaurant meals.
I agree with both...typical restaurant chains are definitely not worth it (in my experience), however dining at super high end restaurants can absolutely be worth every bite! Even some little 'hole' in the wall places can also be worth it too.
It’s sad but I’ve even had inconsistent food quality from non-chain restaurants. Now that I’m counting calories, and in the losing weight phase, going out just isn’t as appealing. The one good thing about the pandemic is I got in the habit of cooking every day and it has really stuck. (We use to dine out 2-3x per week).
Other items from above that I agree with...
-Cold fried food is gross.
-Fried food cooked in old grease. Yuck!
-Stale baked goods
-these round cookies you get at the grocery store in the bakery section that are doughy, crumbly white flour with a thick layer of icing. Kids love them, most grown ups don’t.
- fancy coffee drinks popularized by starbucks1 -
Donuts - sugary fat bombs
Most restaurant meals.
I agree with both...typical restaurant chains are definitely not worth it (in my experience), however dining at super high end restaurants can absolutely be worth every bite! Even some little 'hole' in the wall places can also be worth it too.
It’s sad but I’ve even had inconsistent food quality from non-chain restaurants. Now that I’m counting calories, and in the losing weight phase, going out just isn’t as appealing. The one good thing about the pandemic is I got in the habit of cooking every day and it has really stuck. (We use to dine out 2-3x per week).
Other items from above that I agree with...
-Cold fried food is gross.
-Fried food cooked in old grease. Yuck!
-Stale baked goods
-these round cookies you get at the grocery store in the bakery section that are doughy, crumbly white flour with a thick layer of icing. Kids love them, most grown ups don’t.
- fancy coffee drinks popularized by starbucks
https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10747290/the-most-polarizing-food-where-do-you-stand#latest
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Ice-cream and lollies
Cream - in anything, drinks, deserts, etc
Fish & Chips, most take out food
Any sort of jelly sweets
Cookies - unless homemade
Supermarket sliced bread
Any type of cake that isn't chocolate!1 -
I’m a vegetarian, and I’d often get stuck with bad food at conferences or events. The vegetarian dish is almost always some bland pasta dish with few vegetables. High calorie, not good and not worth it. But being at a work event and needing to blend in, I’d have to at least take a few bites and pretend to be eating it or I’d be the weird person at the table watching others eat. Then comes dessert time, and those mass produced conference desserts are almost always bad. I’d rather skip the whole eating part and enjoy a pint of ice cream at home for the same calories!7
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The batter on the fish when I buy fish & chips (with mushy peas of course)
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ew on the note of fish and chips... tarrter sauce.1
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Because chippy fish isn't breaded. It's battered and the fish remains unfried inside, being nice and soft3
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Jiffy corn muffin. What an absolute waste of 170 calories.
And besides, it didn’t even taste of cornmeal. It was like a sugary yellow cupcake. Even my cupcakes aren’t that sweet.1 -
springlering62 wrote: »Jiffy corn muffin. What an absolute waste of 170 calories.
And besides, it didn’t even taste of cornmeal. It was like a sugary yellow cupcake. Even my cupcakes aren’t that sweet.
I like my cornbread sweet!3 -
pancakerunner wrote: »springlering62 wrote: »Jiffy corn muffin. What an absolute waste of 170 calories.
And besides, it didn’t even taste of cornmeal. It was like a sugary yellow cupcake. Even my cupcakes aren’t that sweet.
I like my cornbread sweet!
I used to make a casserole from cornbread mix, eggs, milk, canned corn, canned creamed corn, and french onion sour cream dip (or sour cream plus the dry french onion soup mix). Sooo good. Worth the calories.4 -
lynn_glenmont wrote: »pancakerunner wrote: »springlering62 wrote: »Jiffy corn muffin. What an absolute waste of 170 calories.
And besides, it didn’t even taste of cornmeal. It was like a sugary yellow cupcake. Even my cupcakes aren’t that sweet.
I like my cornbread sweet!
I used to make a casserole from cornbread mix, eggs, milk, canned corn, canned creamed corn, and french onion sour cream dip (or sour cream plus the dry french onion soup mix). Sooo good. Worth the calories.
Oh yeh and some shredded cheddar thrown into the mix. It is yummy!1 -
lynn_glenmont wrote: »pancakerunner wrote: »springlering62 wrote: »Jiffy corn muffin. What an absolute waste of 170 calories.
And besides, it didn’t even taste of cornmeal. It was like a sugary yellow cupcake. Even my cupcakes aren’t that sweet.
I like my cornbread sweet!
I used to make a casserole from cornbread mix, eggs, milk, canned corn, canned creamed corn, and french onion sour cream dip (or sour cream plus the dry french onion soup mix). Sooo good. Worth the calories.
Oh yeh and some shredded cheddar thrown into the mix. It is yummy!
Oh wow. Sounds interesting with the french onion dip! where's the recipe from?0 -
Cheap chocolate.
Or really any mass-produced factory candy bar. I'll pop a few mini-Twix or mini-Kit Kats when presented with the opportunity...but full-sized versions of these things...nope, not at all worth the calories.
I'd rather have a smaller amount of super-dark, high quality chocolate instead.5 -
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pancakerunner wrote: »lynn_glenmont wrote: »pancakerunner wrote: »springlering62 wrote: »Jiffy corn muffin. What an absolute waste of 170 calories.
And besides, it didn’t even taste of cornmeal. It was like a sugary yellow cupcake. Even my cupcakes aren’t that sweet.
I like my cornbread sweet!
I used to make a casserole from cornbread mix, eggs, milk, canned corn, canned creamed corn, and french onion sour cream dip (or sour cream plus the dry french onion soup mix). Sooo good. Worth the calories.
Oh yeh and some shredded cheddar thrown into the mix. It is yummy!
Oh wow. Sounds interesting with the french onion dip! where's the recipe from?
I don't remember for sure where I got it from (it was 25 or 30 years ago, I think).
But this recipe looks like it (except I don't remember it having cheese, but how can cheese be bad in a casserole?):
https://www.food.com/recipe/three-corn-casserole-271099
This seems more like what I remember, without the cheese:
https://foodal.com/recipes/casseroles/triple-corn/
Edited because I screwed up the linking on the second recipe.
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Most French fries and regular soda. Both are just kinda meh.3
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SuzySunshine99 wrote: »Cheap chocolate.
Or really any mass-produced factory candy bar. I'll pop a few mini-Twix or mini-Kit Kats when presented with the opportunity...but full-sized versions of these things...nope, not at all worth the calories.
I'd rather have a smaller amount of super-dark, high quality chocolate instead.
Yep! had a couple reeses the other day and it just didn't hit right0
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