Options for dessert

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

mrsmeteor wrote: »

AnnPT77 wrote: »

Not quite in the same spirit, maybe: Yasso Greek Yogurt Bars (frozen) for 100 calories. Just one individually wrapped really special-good chocolate.

Seconding this. The salted caramel ones are my favorite

Those things are delectable.

-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!

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.

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).

EliseTK1 wrote: »

@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.