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Fifteen Fill-You-Up Foods
Forgetting skimpy serving sizes and filling up on more food may be a surprisingly better way to cut calories. Food with more volume satisfies your desire to have a filling portion. Following are some delicious foods that will satisfy your hunger without packing on the calories.
- Air-popped popcorn: 31 calories per cup
- Low-calorie bread: 40 calories for one average slice
- Puffed cereal: 55 calories for one-cup
- Grapes: 58 calories for one-cup
- Orange: 60 calories
- Angel food cake: 73 calories for one slice
- Bran cereal: 75 calories per one-half cup
- Mousse: 80 calories per one-half cup
- Apple: 81 calories
- Fish: 86 calories (average for one raw fillet)
- Low-calorie ice cream: 120 calories (one-half cup)
- Soup: 136 calories (average per one-half cup)
- Oatmeal: 145 calories per 1-cup
- Potato: 156 calories, baked with skin removed (one average-size)
- Whole-wheat pasta: 174 calories per cup
Give these recipes a try, too!
Fill-Me-Up Shake
1 cup fat free milk or soy milk
1/2 frozen banana or 1/2 cup frozen mango slices
1 teaspoon sugar
1 cup frozen fruit of your choice
Mix the milk, banana, sugar and frozen fruit in a blender until smooth.
Note: Experiment, adding a touch of vanilla, cinnamon or other favorite flavors to taste.
Approximately 220 calories per shake.
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Chocolate-Cinnamon Meringues
1 cup sugar
1/3 cup non-sweetened cocoa powder
4 egg whites
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar
Sift together sugar and cocoa powder. In a large bowl, beat the egg whites, cinnamon and cream of tartar with an electric mixer on medium speed until soft peaks form. Beat in sugar mixture 1-tablespoon at a time.
Beat the entire mixture on high speed until glossy and stiff.
Line two baking sheets with parchment.
Drop rounded teaspoonfuls of batter onto the sheets, leaving 1-inch between meringues.
Bake at 250-degrees for 40 to 45 minutes, or until the tops feel dry to the touch. Cool for five minutes, then remove from the sheets.
Recipe make 48 meringues, 18 calories per meringue.
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