Are there any free foods?

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Howldaloom

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Hi im looking into foods that are very low in calories or have no calories that are filling.

I have been eating lots of soup lately. anything from 100-190 calories per tin.

My general day is muesli for breakfast-200 calories.

milk in tea a day -125 calories

Soup-126

fruits-100

dinner*fajitas, stir fry, chilli con carnie, shepherds pie, grilled steak new potatoes and veg, chips, beans onion rings and fish fingers, salmon fillit with batsami rice and peas. Usually my main meal has 300-900 calories depending which meal i eat.

Then salad,tomatoes and fish with parlsey sauce-133 OR soup-133

odd snack *2 fruit biscuits*-96

I never go over 1600 calories a day. My calorie intake can range from 950-1450 usually

and i have lost 6 pounds in 5 weeks so far.

Im wondering weather soups are what i should be eating? As they are filling, low in calories.
 
Howldaloom said:
Hi im looking into foods that are very low in calories or have no calories that are filling.

I have been eating lots of soup lately. anything from 100-190 calories per tin.

My general day is muesli for breakfast-200 calories.

milk in tea a day -125 calories

Soup-126

fruits-100

dinner*fajitas, stir fry, chilli con carnie, shepherds pie, grilled steak new potatoes and veg, chips, beans onion rings and fish fingers, salmon fillit with batsami rice and peas. Usually my main meal has 300-900 calories depending which meal i eat.

Then salad,tomatoes and fish with parlsey sauce-133 OR soup-133

odd snack *2 fruit biscuits*-96

I never go over 1600 calories a day. My calorie intake can range from 950-1450 usually

and i have lost 6 pounds in 5 weeks so far.

Im wondering weather soups are what i should be eating? As they are filling, low in calories.
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I love soups. My only complaint is that a lot of canned soups are very, VERY high in sodium. So, if you are going to eat canned soups, make sure you pay attention to the amount of sodium you are consuming. Many major brands offer low-sodium soups now, so choose those ones.

Another thing you want to pay attention to is the number of servings in each can. For instance, a regular sized can of Campbell's Chicken Noodle Soup has 60 calories per serving. That doesn't mean the whole can is 60 calories though. A can of Campbell's Chicken Noodle Soup contains 2.5 servings per can, so you are actually consuming 150 calories if you eat the whole can (60 x 2.5 = 150). The same goes for many other soups, so watch out.
 
Just checked my soups.

tomatoe and roasted red pepper per half a can contains 0.4g sodium and 0.8g salt equivilent.

french onion per 100g *400g tin*
0.30g sodium and o.75g salt equivilent.

lamb and veg half a tin
0.6g sodium and 1.4g salt equivilent.

How are these for sodium and salt lvls?
 
Soup is great, but switch the tins for home-made soups.
Lots of recipes available, and they're really healthy and taste so much better.
You can even freeze batches so you can have different soups each day :)
 
I don't think any foods are free. If it has calories in it, it counts. There are foods to be more or less careful about (the higher calorie density something is, the more I'm going to worry about it), but I count everything. (In the same way that even if something costs 10c, it's still cost me something, even if it hasn't cost me $100)
 
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