Options for dessert
rperdue2681
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I really like something sweet after dinner and am needing some ideas for some options. Would love to hear your ideas please!
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I like to eat frozen dark sweet cherries at night when I want something sweet. You have have 140g for 90cals which is a lot and it takes awhile to eat them since they’re frozen.
Another thing is mixing a bit of cool whip with some sugar free pudding mix but I don’t know the amounts…I just wing it. You could also do protein powder and cool whip if you needed more protein.2 -
Frozen grapes are also really good! My "go to" dessert lately has been oikos yogurt which is really low sugar, high protein with about a quarter of a box of sugar free pudding mix (Pistachio is my favorite) and a few tablespoons of sugar free cool whip. Sometimes I mix in a tablespoon of crushed chocolate chips. Soo good and I look forward to it every day. I know some sugar free options aren't great for you though.0
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Cherry or vanilla dannon light and fit yogurt. It's so tasty and it's quite plenty of protein. Or I like sugar free Jello chocolate pudding, which is surprisingly yummy hot.0
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How sweet?
This time of year mandarins are awesome. They are sweet. They aren't baklava sweet. There's lots of fruits that are pretty sweet - dates! Pineapple! Mango!
I bet that if you start working on eating sweet things that are slightly less sweet, you might desire them less and less. Just a thought.0 -
Tonight I had pear tart. One Pillsbury crescent roll (flat) with one tiny pear sliced thin on top and baked.
I've been having cottage cheese cheesecake. I like it with sweet potatoes or strawberries.0 -
Everyone is being such a good influence!
In the same spirit: I like frozen mixed berries (still frozen) mixed with plain nonfat Greek yogurt and chocolate peanut butter powder.
I'd also endorse fresh fruit and dried fruit, as others have mentioned.
Not quite in the same spirit, maybe: Yasso Greek Yogurt Bars (frozen) for 100 calories. Just one individually wrapped really special-good chocolate.1 -
I’m currently eating a big cold orange (kitchen is unheated) and on exercising days in addition a piece of old, slow matured gouda (not *kitten* like Old Amsterdam but a good product).3
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I quite like preparing a box of sugar-free jelly/jello, and I'll usually stir in a can of lite fruit salad. Can usually get a huge family-sized dish at under 200 cals for the full thing, but of course that'll depend on which brand products you purchase
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i have a square from a bar of dark chocolate. ghirardelli!3
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Belgian meringues by Irresistables (sic) sold at sprouts. Big, crunchy, sweet and only 30 calories each.
Homemade meringues with less sugar or even using aquafaba and less sugar. (I keep meaning to experiment with the granulated sucralose to see if I can get them to zero calories lol.)
Sugar free pudding mixed with greek yogurt. Add a can of puréed pumpkin and some pumpkin spice for a very good pumpkin pie knockoff.
A scoop of low cal vanilla ice cream in a Diet Barq’s. (I make my own ultra-low cal ice cream to reduce further- with no diminution of flavor).
Cottage cheese and fruit. I prefer frozen blueberries because, as the poster above mentioned, they take longer to eat.
A small Cadbury’s Curly Wurly is 98 calories and is a great hit of chocolate and caramel. I bought a case on Amazon for a reasonable price.
If I have no calories left, a Coke Zero over ice, or a hot clear tea. But that seldom happens because I am all about dessert and snacks so I budget them in advance.
Today I’m making a very low cal cheesecake that will be 569 calories for the whole, pie-sized cheesecake and almost 80gr protein. It’s refining an experiment I did over the holidays, which worked but can be improved. (More fruit!) That’ll be dessert tomorrow. Even if we go nuts and each eat half the cheesecake (unlikely) it’s still well within both mine and hub’s calorie allowances.
Get creative. What do you enjoy eating? How can you tinker with it to reduce the calories.1 -
Lately my go to snack is a couple of cups frozen mixed berries mixed in with 1 or 2 Light and Fit Greek Yogurts. I mix it all together and the Yogurt freezes and it tastes like a healthy version of ice cream. I suppose I could mix it all together in the blender for a smooth consistency but I prefer it chunky.2
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This is my exact problem! Freezing small chocolates has worked for me some of the time. I'm going to try going to bed earlier and brushing my teeth sooner to see if this helps.1
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Some beautiful luscious berries.1
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Birch Benders has a brownie mix that I like for a warm brownie in a mug. I mix in about 2 Tablespoons of that and 2 Tablespoons some egg whites, a teaspoon of sugar free chocolate pudding mix as wel. Mix and microwave for about 45 seconds. It’s about 110 calories and a decent bite of protein. Helps me with the sweet cravings at night!0
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In the Yasso bars, my favorites are the mint chocolate chip and the cookie dough. I like the salted caramel, coffee chip, cookies and cream, and the one with the fudge swirl in it (forget the exact name), but they're a bit below the first two in yum to me. But variety is good, so I buy varied ones.
They're delicious, and while not a nutritional powerhouse, they have 5g protein which is more than many 100 calorie sweet treats. It will put some people off, but I like that they're sweetened with actual sugar. To me, any of the artificial sweeteners make things taste off, sometimes even unsatisfying. My overall eating style doesn't involve lots of added sugar, so I don't find the usually 9g of added sugar in one of these to be worrisome. For some, it might be a concern.1 -
-Banana ice cream! Freeze bananas, put on blender with any add ins you like- maybe a tablespoon yogurt, cocoa powder, powdered peanut butter or regular, etc.
- Hot cocoa- milk of choice warmed with 1 Tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder and sweetener of choice
- Medrool Dates! I get them from Sprouts in the bulk bin. Figs are another one ( just be mindful and weigh them!)
- Avocado moose- avocado mixed with cocoa powder and sweetener of choice.
- unsweetenedcoain yogurt ( I use either Harmless Harvest coconut or Kite Hill Greek) with crushed dates, nuts, powdered peanut butter or cocoa powder
- - So Delicious Sugar Free fudge bars
- - baked Oatmeal with pb powder or pb, protein powder or cocoa powder
Check out " Chocolate Coveted Katie- she has a whole website full of easy recipes and some single serve!1 -
rperdue2681 wrote: »I really like something sweet after dinner and am needing some ideas for some options. Would love to hear your ideas please!
Aldi's dark chocolate dessert hummus (has protein, fiber, low calorie) and it tastes like frosting.
Cool Whip and berries
1/2 cup of orange sherbet is only 107 calories and the fat is pretty low.
100 Grand Fun Size Bar--- 80 calories.
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Zero-sugar cheesecake pudding mix combined with greek yogurt (oikos or light and fit work well) and zero-sugar cool whip. You can dip apple slices in this or put into mini graham cracker crusts and top with strawberries/chocolate/caramel drizzle (your choice)
Caramel rice cake with a light laughing cow cheese, mini marshmallows, and semi-sweet chocolate chips (I torch mine a little on top and it has a creamy smores vibe)
Sara Lee "Delightful" bread with Justin's brand vanilla almond butter
Skinny cow ice cream sandwich/cone
2 squares of dark chocolate
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I have to pay attention to sugar (glucose tends to be a little too high; not yet worrying, but not to be ignored), but my choice went to: few desserts, but magnificent quality/taste. In the past I tried out a lot of "substitutes", but they never satisfy me, so finally decided for fewer but great.
So: two/three breakfasts a week, I go to a coffee bar for a vegan croissant (no lactose for me, intolerant), they are from a pastry cook, yummy; and one dinner a week, when we go out for pizza, I also eat their homemade tiramisù (mascarpone without lactose). Ditto if it happens another going out (like birthdays etc). Apart from these, a square of dark chocolate every day; and in the other breakfasts, if I want sugar, I bake fruit muffins or fruit pies (more often I go for oatmeals or plain toasts).0 -
@springlering62 Can you please share your low cal cheesecake recipe? That sounds like something I’d like to try!1
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@springlering62 Can you please share your low cal cheesecake recipe? That sounds like something I’d like to try!
I’m still working on it.
One container of Greek yogurt, strained or drained for a couple days in cheesecloth or a yogurt strainer. Pour off the drained whey (or keep it for bread making or smoothies. It’s high protein and makes baked goods rise beautifully!!!)
45 gr simple syrup (Jordan’s zero cal)
2 eggs
1 serving liquid egg whites (46gr)
Mix well, but apparently not too well (that seems to be one of the corrections I need to make!)
Stir in 1 serving blueberries (140gr) I use frozen, and microwave them a couple of minutes to make them syrupy.
Pour all into a greased pie dish. Bake at 300 til wobbly firm. (I did an hour and that was too long).
Turn off oven and let it sit undisturbed in oven for another half hour.
Cover and refrigerate.
596 calories (or less, since you’re draining whey off) for whole recipe.
I’m still tinkering. If anyone comes up with a good refinement, plmk.
Next try will be strawberries. And will try the granulated sucralose versus the Jordan’s.0
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