Healthy Snacks

[cbloom]

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By the way, is low-fat or non-fat yogurt (with no sugar added) pretty unobjectionable?

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[FastPlaySlow]

been trying to compile a grocery list, here's what I've got for "work out food":

potatoes
tuna
pasta
bananas
rice cakes
chicken breast
oatmeal
protein drinks
peanuts
yogurt
beef jerky
fajita turkey burgers
nut cookies
toasted oat ceereal
orange juice
chocolate milk
wheat crackers
string cheese
grilled fish
green salad

[Efourdee]

rice cakes and chocolate milk dont strike me as "workout food".

[thirddan]

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been trying to compile a grocery list, here's what I've got for "work out food":

potatoes
tuna
pasta
bananas
rice cakes
chicken breast
oatmeal
protein drinks
peanuts
yogurt
beef jerky
fajita turkey burgers
nut cookies
toasted oat ceereal
orange juice
chocolate milk
wheat crackers
string cheese
grilled fish
green salad

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if potato = sweet potato is good...

nut cookie, i doubt any cookies are good for you, check ingredients/macros

pasta = protein enriched or wheat pasta is fine

nice cakes = no bueno

yogurt is not the flavored fruity stuff, check ingredients/macros

toasted oat cereal = likely not good, check ingredients/macros...

orange juice = eat an orange, most juices have added sugars

[ThaHero]

Those Naked Smoothie drinks have about as much sugar as a bottle of Coke, but the bottle says its the natural sugar from the fruit. That means it's not bad right? We sell them at my job and I get em free so I was thinkin of making them my breakfast on some days..

[thirddan]

if the ingredients are all fruits and not lots of things that end with "ose" then you are probably talking only about natural sugars...but you would have to check the ingredients...

[wezvidz]

why are rice cakes so bad? at like 60cal they seem like a solid snack.

[thirddan]

its basically empty carb calories...60 calories of nothing is not the same as 60 useful calories...this is why the 100cal sweet snack pack things are such crap...

[istewart]

Rice cakes send your insulin through the roof IIRC.

[theblackkeys]

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its basically empty carb calories...60 calories of nothing is not the same as 60 useful calories...this is why the 100cal sweet snack pack things are such crap...

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It is certainly much better than 200+ calories of complete junk though. It's not ideal but it's a step in the right direction for the snack food industry and people with horrible diets (myself).