• Obi@sopuli.xyz
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    8 months ago

    I’m counting calories too, it’s not even the amount but it’s that some foods are total calorie bombs. You can pretty easily ingest a day’s worth of calories in a single meal at the restaurant without really feeling like you overate, but if I pay attention and select my foods properly I can feel like I ate plenty and be under 1500cal a day.

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      8 months ago

      One of the subs I miss from Reddit was volume eating- it had tons of tips for low calorie high volume meals so you don’t feel restricted

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        8 months ago

        I find the premade mixes from Birdseye (sold basically everywhere that has frozen food) to be a pretty good lazy way to get a big meal. Usually a decent mix of meat, veggies, and grain, but the whole bag (3 servings) is only like 600-900 kcal. Sometimes it feels like an obscene amount of food for the calorie count.

        Not bad for what’s basically a microwave dinner.

        • mods_are_assholes@lemmy.world
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          8 months ago

          Personally I am a broccoli freak and as fresh produce it is much cheaper than frozen at least where I’m at.

          Plus daikon radish is also available here cheap and that surprised me.

          A lot of roast veggies and soups make for a budget friendly filling low cal meal.