Soup is a great diet food in the winter. Who doesn't love comfort food when it's cold out? Sadly, most comfort foods are low in fiber and high in fat. Not soup--as long as it's not a cream soup or packed with cheese or bacon, soup is usually pretty low in fat. You can eat a good amount of it too, and still stay on your diet. It's always best to cook your own, but if you can't there are lots of good canned or frozen soups on the market. My new favs are the Progresso Lites. Some of them are 0 pts on Weight Watchers, others are 1 pt--awesome. No corn syrup either, but some have MSG, so if you're sensitive to this, watch out.
Hurray for Soup!
Some other good food on the market:
From the regular food store:
Morning Star Farms products (in the freezer section). Most of them taste great and are very shockingly low in fat. The spicy black bean veggie burgers are great--but there are many other good ones, too. (The Grillers are not a good choice--10g fat, may as well eat a real burger.)
From the health food store or health food section:
Amy's frozen meals--the indian and thai selections are yummy, and around 7 or 8 g Fat for the whole meal-- made with whole grains and all natural ond organic ingedients.
Cascade Fresh fruit juice sweetened fat-free yogurt.
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I tried to find the Oasis Brand Zero fat hummus and black bean dip at Jewel, but didn't know where to look. Is it in the refrigerated section?
ReplyDeleteI also have another question:
ReplyDeleteDo you know why sweet potatoes are supposed to be a better choice than regular potatoes? Do they have more fiber or vitamins or what?
Here's your answer to the sweet potato question:
ReplyDeleteSweet Potatoes are Highly Nutritious
Compare the nutrition profile of potatoes with the nutrition profile of sweet potatoes and it's clear that sweet potatoes are more nutritious. It is widely reported on the internet that in 1992 The Center for Science in the Public Interest declared the sweet potato to be the most nutritious vegetable, although I could not find the original report online. However, sweet potatoes still top the list of "good foods" in the Nutrition Action Newsletter.
Sweet Potatoes are lower in Calories than Potatoes
According to nutrition data from The World's Healthiest Foods sweet potatoes have only 95 calories per pound, compared with 133 calories per pound for potatoes. More nutrition and less calories; doesn't that have to be a winner?
Sweet Potatoes are Lower on the Glycemic Index than Potatoes
Sweet potatoes become even more appealing when you consider the glycemic index, which is a measure of how quickly food turns to glucose in your blood. Anyone who's eating low glycemic foods, either for weight control or health-related blood sugar issues, should choose low glycemic sweet potatoes over potatoes. (The glycemic index of potatoes varies quite a bit depending on how they're cooked, but in every source I've seen, sweet potatoes are always lower than regular potatoes.)
http://www.blogher.com/sweet-potatoes-are-new-potatoes
Thanks Annette. At first, I thought it had to do with fiber, but the book that I was using had them about the same (or maybe white was higher, I can't remember). I wasn't sure if it was a misprint.
ReplyDeleteI am liking your posts, by the way. I always avoided soup (when dieting, not in real life;-) because of the sodium. I'm going to try some of the brands that you mentioned. I tried "Health Valley" a while ago and it was so bland, I was like "Eeww, get this off of my tongue". I had to mix it with regular soup, just to finish it.
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