What Does 300 Calories Really Look Like? Home cooking vs eating w/pics

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What Does 300 Calories Really Look Like?

Wonder what 300 calories looks like? 300 calories look drastically different when you're eating in instead of dining out. Choosing healthier, more nutritious foods--at home and away--means you can eat much more food and still lose weight. Check out these 18 meal comparisons to see for yourself, share forward this story to your friends!

Breakfast: 300-Calorie Meals & Portions
Here are three morning meals that each weigh in at 300 calories. Healthy and quick homemade meals (left column) pack whole grains, fresh fruit, and protein--a filling combination that will keep you fuller longer. You could only eat a fraction of the comparable restaurant meals (right column) for the same number of calories. Get more healthy breakfast ideas here.





more here:

http://www.sparkpeople.com/resource/nutrition_articles.asp?id=1260

[mdavies013]

1. Now if we can put in the cost figures...

[Skip Intro]

2. Wow, I regularly have that veggie sausage breakfast myself.

Well, my version, egg beaters, veggie sausage patty, lite bread toasted which I spray with butter flavored pam - filling and low cal (and low fat and sodium too).

[Parker CA]

5. Spray the bread then toast? How does the flavor carry over?

[LisaL]

3. Very interesting.

[lonestarnot]

4. mmmm.mmm.m

[Quantess]

6. I've lost weight without trying, now that I don't eat at restaurants anymore.

Restaurant portions are way too big, for starters.

[sarcasmo]

11. Portions are the key.

[Initech]

18. I've lost 15 pound *JUST* by not eating fast food breakfast.

[JI7]

7. is that a mini bagel ?

[L0oniX]

8. But but but ...if it doesnt have a lot of salt, fat and sugar it won't sell.

Fast food industry moto: When in doubt add bacon and cheese.

[Gregorian]

9. A high fat diet is good. But only if it's good fat. Salmon oil, avocado.

Read The Paleo Diet. It's actually not a diet, but what we ate 20,000 years ago before we got ill.

You can eat tons of the right meat. Tons of the right fat. You can lose weight while eating as much as you want.

But it does mean giving up on all of the fun processed food.

Giving up salt is the hardest part. I've fallen back into using it again.

[Swamp Rat]

10. k&r

[Vinca]

12. Fat free cream cheese? You might as well put putty on the bagel.

[Odin2005]

13. And fat-free anything is loaded with salt.

I have edema in my legs and so have to limit my salt intake. "low-fat" products are off-limits because of all the salt in them.

[Abq_Sarah]

14. And sugar

Sugar content is often boosted or added to low fat foods to make them palatable.

[Abq_Sarah]

15. It's interesting that they don't include

The carb/fat counts in the comparison.

A Western Whole Wheat Bagel has 41 carbs. Add an orange and pineapple chunks and the sugar content exceeds the entire muffin, not the 3/4 shown.

[cbdo2007]

16. Ha ha, good luck getting people to eat fruit instead of sh*t.

99% of the reason people don't eat healthy is laziness and because the sh*t food tastes better.

Even me, I'm a pretty healthy eater but I'd much RATHER eat that IHOP Big Steak Omelette.

[elias7]

17. You can eat healthy at restaurants and unhealthy at home

These comparisons are helpful, but somewhat misleading. For example, anyone can figure that an IHOP big steak omelette loaded with steak and cheese is going have have mega calories and fat. However, you can make that shit at home, and some do. What's misleading is that you can order a low fat meal at IHOP like the comparison eggs, toast and veggie sausage patty, you just need some common sense and some restraint and not be hungover (isn't that why people go to IHOP in the first place?).

Every restaurant, even fast food places have low fat alternatives. To compare a high fat nasty meal at a franchise restaurant to a low fat meal one could make at home is misleading. I could eat healthy at a restaurant and crappy at home. To me, it's the Supersize Fallacy. Just because you can supersize at McD's doesn't mean you don't have the choice not to.

[delightfulstar]

19. It's all about portion control and smart choices.

So many restaurant dishes are loaded with junk, and the portions are 2-3 times what they should be. Many places are starting to keep nutritional information on site, or are starting to carry lower-calorie options. I've lost 30 lbs. since September just by watching what I eat, trying to avoid processed foods, treating myself occasionally (once a month or so), walking, and drinking lots of water. I also rarely eat out, so it's easier to avoid the sauce-drenched, cheese-laden, salt-encrusted stuff. I'd rather eat at home, because 1) I know where my food has been, 2) I can make it however I want, and 3) it's a lot cheaper.

[Hissyspit]

20. Lost 65 lbs last year doing pretty much same.

I do need to get more exercise in gym to avoid muscle loss, though.

[Still a Democrat]

21. How about three slices of french toast?

One egg, three slices lite bread, a little skim milk, fries in pam, spray butter and a little sugar free syrup. Under three hundred calories, warm, sweet, filling breakfast on a winter morning!