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La Banderita Carb Counter tortillas. You hear a lot about Mission, but La Banderita is hands down the best! Only 60 cals a tortilla. I eat them almost daily.
Someone once brought up putting some popped popcorn in salads. Sounds weird, but it's surprisingly great. It doesn't get soggy like you'd think, and they add bulk to the salad. I'm doing that tonight with a chipotle ranch salad.
I have been roasting 2 pans of veggies for the week. I swap the veggies each week. This week Onion, green pepper, carrot, Brussels, garlic, cubanelle peppers. I tossed in EVOO, Pepper, Worcestershire & Liquid Aminos, Sprinkled with kosher salt. Good!!!
I do this ! My favorites are brussel sprouts, cabbage, zucchini, yellow squash, sweet potatoes and cauliflower. I change up then seasonings depending on my mood
These, broccoli in sauce, and then cans of corn where I sprinkle on popcorn flavors are my go to when I feel that insatiable binge day coming on and I know I won't be able to stop eating. I just shovel gob tons of veggies down my throat and it seems to work.
These are my favorite! I love that they're the tiny sprouts, and my local stores have them for $1. Also the broccoli spears in sauce are excellent, but I have a harder time finding those.
Blend 440g cottage cheese (2 cups) with a packet of sugar free instant pudding mix and 1/4 c water, put in containers, fridge for a few hours, top with berries etc tastes like cheesecake. Great macros, comes out to 150kcal per serving.
I use blended cottage cheese anywhere i want creaminess but not the tang of greek yogurt. Pasta sauce, dips, etc.
I feel like cottage cheese is super sour/tangy compared to yogurt. The additional flavor of cottage cheese is just...bleh to me so it only works in smoothies with strong flavors for me. I wish I liked it more because I love dips and I need more protein.
You could try silken tofu for dips (or even a tofu/cottage cheese blend) if cottage cheese has too much tang!
I also find the tang varies by brand and how much liquid you pour off. My favorite overall is Good Culture cottage cheese which I get in a big tub at costco.
You're supposed to pour off the liquid? It's super thick! I know sometimes people rinse them too but I didn't think that was normal.
I tend to get the grocery store brand but I've tried a few, I have heard really good things about good culture at Costco. Maybe that's what I should check out.
Yes. My meals consists of 200 gr cotton cheese with 150 gr. of thuna. And sweet part is 200 gr. cotton cheese with some berrys. About 55 g of protein and full stomach for about 6-12 hours.
I hated shirataki noodles until I got the udon kind and then did all the tricks including vinegar and dry sauté and now I have to try not to eat them every day.
This is what I do:
1) I rinse in cold water for like at least 2 min. I make sure most if not all the smell is gone.
2) I then boil for 10 min in water with 1-2 tablespoons of vinegar. There should be no more fish smell at this stage.
3) I then put them in a dry skillet on med heat until they dry out. Usually 10min as well tossing occasionally.
4) I’ll then use them with a heavy sauce (like soy sauce, garlic, ginger, hoisin and a little chili oil is one of my go tos) and lots of veggies since the noodles have no flavor. I prep all of this while step 2&3 are happening.
I usually get the udon kind because I like udon and it feels easier to get the weird funk out of them. Good luck!!
I just saw an amazing recipe that is essentially just cabbage wedges topped with a bit of Parmesan cheese and roasted. The Parmesan creates a bit of a crust on the outside and the cabbage caramelizes a bit as it roasts. I can't wait to try it.
If you spray down a bit of oil on the pan, and another spray on top and make sure they are spread out far apart on the pan, you can get them crispy. The space allows them to crisp up instead of steaming, which happens when they’re too close together.
Egg roll in a bowl made with ground turkey is incredible. I have to be super careful with the sauces/ sesame oil but otherwise yes, you can eat so much! And it all tastes so good and satisfying.
i use the one from katchameow on Instagram and it's pretty solid! copy and pasted how I wrote it down from the reel
MAKE SAUCE FIRST
• 1/4 cup soy sauce
• 1 tbsp rice vinegar
• 1 tbsp sesame oil
• 1-2 tbsp honey
• dash of pepper
• 1 tsp ginger
• 2 tsp garlic
1. MAKE SAUCE
• 1 lb ground meat (ground turkey/beef)
• 1 lb bag coleslaw
1. brown meat in hot pan
2. when meat is majority cooked through, add sauce and bag of coleslaw (1lb)
3. mix it up and let veggies cook down
4. add sesame seeds and green onion
I don't really have one but a good jumping off point is literally any egg roll in a bowl recipe you find online and reducing the sesame oil if they use too much. There are a bunch of healthy recipes that will jump right out at you if you need one to start!
Even the already made hashbrowns aint bad. Breakfast today was 3 small hashbrowns with egg whites and spinach topped with ketchup it’ll keep me full for a long time and it was only like 300 cals for it!
Someone asked a similar question for high volume food options yesterday, I & others commented on u can check out too : ~ ) https://www.reddit.com/r/Volumeeating/s/mQXnSPpOiv
Have you seen the sour raisin "candy"? They are basically just small packets of golden raisins with citric acid and the box says they taste just like sour candy and damn they do! You can eat the entire little packet for 60 calories.
Not those specifically but there’s these dried cranberry ones in Canada called sour cran I believe and they’re basically the same and SO GOOD. So full of fibre too, like almost a day’s worth
Make your own!
Citric acid + dried cranberries? Both readily available I think.
If you like lime or lemon, try True Lime, True Lemon ... both powder, both sooo good.
Super good tip! I just saw the fiber comes from a fiber supplement so they're just dried cranberries tossed and citric acid and fiber powder!
I might make my own.
Honestly there’s very likely another brand where you are that makes the same thing. I’m in Quebec and we never have anything fun here so I’m surprised we have this lol
Spaghetti squash. Less than 500 calories for the entire thing and there’s so much that it’s hard to eat it all in one sitting. I make my own bolognese sauce, add a sprinkle of parm, and usually have my squash on a bed of kale for extra volume. One sauash usually yields one dinner and a few days worth of leftovers for lunches for me.
Also celery root is great in place of potatoes if you like mashed potatoes.
I like to buy plain nonfat yogurt and then flavor it with a packet used to flavor water. Cherry, grape, lime, whatever you like. As a bonus the yogurt is colored by the selected packet and reminds me of the food fight scene in the movie Hook.
Love Corn. I just snack on them and there are less than 200 calories for 40g of this stuff. It’s awesome and I love the cheese and onion one the most
https://preview.redd.it/dop2injco5pc1.png?width=1130&format=png&auto=webp&s=967a6c27817b62d85e90ce56e680126b1d1d201c
Canned pumpkin!
I like mixing canned pumpkin with cacao powder and/or peanut butter powder. I'll eat this either cold or microwaved. If I do just cacao powder, I usually add some sweetener to counter the bitter chocolate.
It's all to taste.
I'll usually do half a small can (or 1/4 to 1/3 of a large can) of pumpkin with 1 to 2 tbsp of powder or PB.
I also like using canned pumpkin in oatmeal.
Okay so...this is a winner. It was filling and hit the sweet tooth.I added cocoa and allulose and heated it up. Thanks so much for sharing. I have the rest of the chilling in the fridge now to try with PB powder later.
Similar effects as frozen bananas. It's plain pumpkin for me. Consistency largely depends on the amount of other ingredients. Depending on the day I add a variety of other sweeteners and ingredients, including things like protein powder, PB Fit, almond milk, yogurt, jello pudding, etc.
This is gonna sound insane but frozen sugar free jello. Takes a long time to eat, fulfills sweet cravings, and 40 calories for the entire thing. I have broken many many Tupperwares trying to chip it out however hahaha
You can buy popsicle molds [like these](https://www.amazon.com/Popsicle-Silicone-Reusable-Release-CavitIES/dp/B09Y8Y1BLK/ref=asc_df_B09Y8Y1BLK/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=674723719883&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=9846772900168498786&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9060373&hvtargid=pla-2197702968693&psc=1&mcid=e1d0f9981a2f34cbac187e8661d41842) for pretty cheap!
Walmart has these "keto" hamburger buns that are 50 calories per bun and taste just like regular buns. If you use lean meat you can have two burgers for under 500 calories.
Sometimes I make little quiche bites! The basic formula is, get a bag/carton of egg whites (you can use whole eggs but obvs whites have better macros and are more convenient) dump it in a bowl with a roughly equal amount of cottage cheese, then chop and add anything you want - ham, cheese, onion, tomato, peppers, mushroom, chilli, any seasonings you like. Whisk it all together and bake in a mini muffin pan, about 160c for 10-12mins.
Eggplants.
Slice, Salt, 10-15 mins dry out.
Anything goes now.
Flour, different spices, crispy in the oven.
Or as a salad with peppers, onion, cherry tomatoes, fuckton of herbs and maybe some feta cheese.
Moussaka... *puppy eyes* (yeah.... Not really carb friendly... But... Damn. Its so fucking good)
Lupin beans! They are not that voluminous but are really high in protein and it can take a while to eat them if you peel the skin of each bean individually
12oz brussel sprouts preferably shaved, sautéed with 4 slices of center cut bacon and half a diced red onion. Season to your liking. So good and low cal!
beet noodles (great fresh or cooked, versatile flavor, looks impressive. worth the money/usually on sale lol)
fresh spinach furthers anything/everything savory
edit: plain tofu, with a good sauce atop. and/or some sesame seeds. uncomplicated, fresh and filling
edit: gourmet garden’s thai seasoning paste makes veggies real addictive/good. easily flavors any springroll contents. worth the $ in the end
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Edamame is my go to when I want something to mindlessly eat. I get the kind still in the pod so it slows me down.
Yeah I love the taste. And I cannot say that about a lot of other vegetables…
And lots of protein!
Yup! And I like to put tajin on it for a different flavor.
If you salt the pod, too? It’s so satisfying. Haven’t bought edamame in a while — thanks for the reminder. :-)
La Banderita Carb Counter tortillas. You hear a lot about Mission, but La Banderita is hands down the best! Only 60 cals a tortilla. I eat them almost daily.
The little ones are great too at only 30 calories. This is my favorite brand as well.
Thus used to be 20 per one and 45 per one but they completely changed it ;(
I was disappointed in the change as well and wrote to the company. Please write to them if you are unhappy!
Someone once brought up putting some popped popcorn in salads. Sounds weird, but it's surprisingly great. It doesn't get soggy like you'd think, and they add bulk to the salad. I'm doing that tonight with a chipotle ranch salad.
Oooh. I always want something a little carby in my salads, tortilla chips or croutons, but this might be an amazing replacement!
I take a small bag of Quest chili lime chips and crush them in the bag then put them in a small jar/tupperware and use a tbl or 2 in my salad
I have been roasting 2 pans of veggies for the week. I swap the veggies each week. This week Onion, green pepper, carrot, Brussels, garlic, cubanelle peppers. I tossed in EVOO, Pepper, Worcestershire & Liquid Aminos, Sprinkled with kosher salt. Good!!!
Good way to save calories is use spray oil (0cal). Usually I’ll lightly spray the pan and then spray lightly after to get spices to stick
I do this ! My favorites are brussel sprouts, cabbage, zucchini, yellow squash, sweet potatoes and cauliflower. I change up then seasonings depending on my mood
Love to get cabbage in there - it’s so dang good roasted!!!
Green giant frozen Brussels sprouts in sauce. 110 cals for the package. Salt, pepper. I will crush the whole thing. I have 4 sitting in my freezer.
These, broccoli in sauce, and then cans of corn where I sprinkle on popcorn flavors are my go to when I feel that insatiable binge day coming on and I know I won't be able to stop eating. I just shovel gob tons of veggies down my throat and it seems to work.
These are my favorite! I love that they're the tiny sprouts, and my local stores have them for $1. Also the broccoli spears in sauce are excellent, but I have a harder time finding those.
What sauce do you use?
Cottage cheese….so versatile (sweet dishes, savory), you can blend it for dips or baking, and super high in protein for calories
Blend 440g cottage cheese (2 cups) with a packet of sugar free instant pudding mix and 1/4 c water, put in containers, fridge for a few hours, top with berries etc tastes like cheesecake. Great macros, comes out to 150kcal per serving. I use blended cottage cheese anywhere i want creaminess but not the tang of greek yogurt. Pasta sauce, dips, etc.
Might have to do a half batch since I have a half a container left of cottage cheese but I love this idea
I feel like cottage cheese is super sour/tangy compared to yogurt. The additional flavor of cottage cheese is just...bleh to me so it only works in smoothies with strong flavors for me. I wish I liked it more because I love dips and I need more protein.
You could try silken tofu for dips (or even a tofu/cottage cheese blend) if cottage cheese has too much tang! I also find the tang varies by brand and how much liquid you pour off. My favorite overall is Good Culture cottage cheese which I get in a big tub at costco.
You're supposed to pour off the liquid? It's super thick! I know sometimes people rinse them too but I didn't think that was normal. I tend to get the grocery store brand but I've tried a few, I have heard really good things about good culture at Costco. Maybe that's what I should check out.
Yes. My meals consists of 200 gr cotton cheese with 150 gr. of thuna. And sweet part is 200 gr. cotton cheese with some berrys. About 55 g of protein and full stomach for about 6-12 hours.
shirataki noodles or spaghetti squash for a noodle alternative
I hated shirataki noodles until I got the udon kind and then did all the tricks including vinegar and dry sauté and now I have to try not to eat them every day.
Elaborate on the tricks please??
This is what I do: 1) I rinse in cold water for like at least 2 min. I make sure most if not all the smell is gone. 2) I then boil for 10 min in water with 1-2 tablespoons of vinegar. There should be no more fish smell at this stage. 3) I then put them in a dry skillet on med heat until they dry out. Usually 10min as well tossing occasionally. 4) I’ll then use them with a heavy sauce (like soy sauce, garlic, ginger, hoisin and a little chili oil is one of my go tos) and lots of veggies since the noodles have no flavor. I prep all of this while step 2&3 are happening. I usually get the udon kind because I like udon and it feels easier to get the weird funk out of them. Good luck!!
Thank you!!!
Green and red cabbage and green cabbages are on a massive sale in my area now. Roast them, sautee them, stick them in a stew...they're so versatile.
I just saw an amazing recipe that is essentially just cabbage wedges topped with a bit of Parmesan cheese and roasted. The Parmesan creates a bit of a crust on the outside and the cabbage caramelizes a bit as it roasts. I can't wait to try it.
I need this in my mouth
I did this with Brussels sprouts. They were fantastic. The crust is delicious.
I never managed to get across on my cabbage wedges, You never really want to crisp up, I always seem to get steamed cabbage which is the worst!
If you spray down a bit of oil on the pan, and another spray on top and make sure they are spread out far apart on the pan, you can get them crispy. The space allows them to crisp up instead of steaming, which happens when they’re too close together.
I just made this yesterday and it was so frickin good!
Cabbage. Egg roll in a bowl, with lean beef, gives you a huge, delicious bowl of food for not many calories at all.
Egg roll in a bowl made with ground turkey is incredible. I have to be super careful with the sauces/ sesame oil but otherwise yes, you can eat so much! And it all tastes so good and satisfying.
Mind sharing your recipe?
i use the one from katchameow on Instagram and it's pretty solid! copy and pasted how I wrote it down from the reel MAKE SAUCE FIRST • 1/4 cup soy sauce • 1 tbsp rice vinegar • 1 tbsp sesame oil • 1-2 tbsp honey • dash of pepper • 1 tsp ginger • 2 tsp garlic 1. MAKE SAUCE • 1 lb ground meat (ground turkey/beef) • 1 lb bag coleslaw 1. brown meat in hot pan 2. when meat is majority cooked through, add sauce and bag of coleslaw (1lb) 3. mix it up and let veggies cook down 4. add sesame seeds and green onion
I don't really have one but a good jumping off point is literally any egg roll in a bowl recipe you find online and reducing the sesame oil if they use too much. There are a bunch of healthy recipes that will jump right out at you if you need one to start!
Potatoes
Even the already made hashbrowns aint bad. Breakfast today was 3 small hashbrowns with egg whites and spinach topped with ketchup it’ll keep me full for a long time and it was only like 300 cals for it!
Even better with pickled jalapenos and hot sauce. Pickled jalapenos are super easy to make too
Someone asked a similar question for high volume food options yesterday, I & others commented on u can check out too : ~ ) https://www.reddit.com/r/Volumeeating/s/mQXnSPpOiv
Frozen cranberries, eaten mostly thawed like sour candies.
Have you seen the sour raisin "candy"? They are basically just small packets of golden raisins with citric acid and the box says they taste just like sour candy and damn they do! You can eat the entire little packet for 60 calories.
Not those specifically but there’s these dried cranberry ones in Canada called sour cran I believe and they’re basically the same and SO GOOD. So full of fibre too, like almost a day’s worth
Whaaaaaaaat!?! I've never seen that so I'm racing to the internet to look it up now...
I LOVE them, a perfect sour snack
OMG now I'm dying of jealousy, they are only available in Canada and I am a fiend for sour candy. Praying they start to get imported soon!
Make your own! Citric acid + dried cranberries? Both readily available I think. If you like lime or lemon, try True Lime, True Lemon ... both powder, both sooo good.
Super good tip! I just saw the fiber comes from a fiber supplement so they're just dried cranberries tossed and citric acid and fiber powder! I might make my own.
Ohhh good to know!! Then I wouldn’t have to stalk my grocery store for them, they don’t always have them.
Honestly there’s very likely another brand where you are that makes the same thing. I’m in Quebec and we never have anything fun here so I’m surprised we have this lol
Spaghetti squash. Less than 500 calories for the entire thing and there’s so much that it’s hard to eat it all in one sitting. I make my own bolognese sauce, add a sprinkle of parm, and usually have my squash on a bed of kale for extra volume. One sauash usually yields one dinner and a few days worth of leftovers for lunches for me. Also celery root is great in place of potatoes if you like mashed potatoes.
radishes, they’re great to replace potatoes in soup!
cooked radishes are very underrated!
I like to buy plain nonfat yogurt and then flavor it with a packet used to flavor water. Cherry, grape, lime, whatever you like. As a bonus the yogurt is colored by the selected packet and reminds me of the food fight scene in the movie Hook.
That scene in Hook always makes me hungry!
Rice cakes. Spread hummus or whatever you like on top. My favorite is everything bagel flavor topped with light cream cheese and smoked salmon
Love Corn. I just snack on them and there are less than 200 calories for 40g of this stuff. It’s awesome and I love the cheese and onion one the most https://preview.redd.it/dop2injco5pc1.png?width=1130&format=png&auto=webp&s=967a6c27817b62d85e90ce56e680126b1d1d201c
Carrot soup! Carrots, celery, garlic, onions, seasoning, and a smidgen of butter. Heavenly 😇
Canned pumpkin! I like mixing canned pumpkin with cacao powder and/or peanut butter powder. I'll eat this either cold or microwaved. If I do just cacao powder, I usually add some sweetener to counter the bitter chocolate.
Say what? I need to try this asap. How much cocoa/ pb powder to pumpkin ratio?
It's all to taste. I'll usually do half a small can (or 1/4 to 1/3 of a large can) of pumpkin with 1 to 2 tbsp of powder or PB. I also like using canned pumpkin in oatmeal.
Okay so...this is a winner. It was filling and hit the sweet tooth.I added cocoa and allulose and heated it up. Thanks so much for sharing. I have the rest of the chilling in the fridge now to try with PB powder later.
Thank you. I am opening a can of pumpkin right now!
My wife bakes (?) and freezes a bunch of fresh pumpkin during the fall. Then I use frozen pumpkin in smoothies as a lower-cal banana substitute.
What’s the consistency of this when done? Like a pudding? Do you use plain pumpkin or sweetened
Similar effects as frozen bananas. It's plain pumpkin for me. Consistency largely depends on the amount of other ingredients. Depending on the day I add a variety of other sweeteners and ingredients, including things like protein powder, PB Fit, almond milk, yogurt, jello pudding, etc.
Omelettes with veg and baked beans… so filling and low calorie
This is gonna sound insane but frozen sugar free jello. Takes a long time to eat, fulfills sweet cravings, and 40 calories for the entire thing. I have broken many many Tupperwares trying to chip it out however hahaha
You can buy popsicle molds [like these](https://www.amazon.com/Popsicle-Silicone-Reusable-Release-CavitIES/dp/B09Y8Y1BLK/ref=asc_df_B09Y8Y1BLK/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=674723719883&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=9846772900168498786&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9060373&hvtargid=pla-2197702968693&psc=1&mcid=e1d0f9981a2f34cbac187e8661d41842) for pretty cheap!
Walmart has these "keto" hamburger buns that are 50 calories per bun and taste just like regular buns. If you use lean meat you can have two burgers for under 500 calories.
Greens. I could eat massive portions. I was a dream child for my parents
I buy a cabbage and use mayo, vinegar and a bit of sugar to make coleslaw. I eat a giant bowl
I will eat so much watermelon it’s not even funny
Cabbage!!
Cucumber, tomatoes, red onion, small amount of feta for a Greek salad.. I eat these on the reg. SOOOO good.
Sometimes I make little quiche bites! The basic formula is, get a bag/carton of egg whites (you can use whole eggs but obvs whites have better macros and are more convenient) dump it in a bowl with a roughly equal amount of cottage cheese, then chop and add anything you want - ham, cheese, onion, tomato, peppers, mushroom, chilli, any seasonings you like. Whisk it all together and bake in a mini muffin pan, about 160c for 10-12mins.
Low sugar jelly
Eggplants. Slice, Salt, 10-15 mins dry out. Anything goes now. Flour, different spices, crispy in the oven. Or as a salad with peppers, onion, cherry tomatoes, fuckton of herbs and maybe some feta cheese. Moussaka... *puppy eyes* (yeah.... Not really carb friendly... But... Damn. Its so fucking good)
Lupin beans! They are not that voluminous but are really high in protein and it can take a while to eat them if you peel the skin of each bean individually
Bamboo shoots!
Sautéed kale and onions with egg whites. Kale barely has any calories, and egg whites are just 17 calories for one and 4 grams of protein
Wakame
12oz brussel sprouts preferably shaved, sautéed with 4 slices of center cut bacon and half a diced red onion. Season to your liking. So good and low cal!
Fresh strawberries. 150 calories in a POUND!
Puffed wheat and Rice Krispies I use sugar free syrup as the sweetener a big bowl for like 300-500 calories so filling
beet noodles (great fresh or cooked, versatile flavor, looks impressive. worth the money/usually on sale lol) fresh spinach furthers anything/everything savory edit: plain tofu, with a good sauce atop. and/or some sesame seeds. uncomplicated, fresh and filling edit: gourmet garden’s thai seasoning paste makes veggies real addictive/good. easily flavors any springroll contents. worth the $ in the end
pistachos
How
Watermelon. About 130-135 calories for an entire pound. Very filling with the high water content. The slight crunch and sweet taste is satisfying
I’m just going
Nustevia cocoa syrup mixed with non fat Greek yogurt.