When Buying Bread, Go for Fiber
We recently started adding sandwiches to our lunch routine, which previously had consisted mainly of things like Subway and Lean Cuisines that were around 300 calories or slightly more or slightly less. Of course, the Lean Cuisines I always bought were the Italian versions, things like the Lasagna Florentine and the Chicken Parmesan, since they felt like you were being naughty without actually breaking your diet,and while eating pasta to boot. I like the Lean Cuisines and Smart Ones considering they offer an alternative to a nice hot lunch that isn’t so high in calories and teaches you how to control your portions and hopefully get filled up on less food.
I know there is a lot of criticism out there on them considering they aren’t very nutritious and can tend to be small portions that don’t really fill you up, but I personally think they are a great way to re-teach how to control portions while still enjoying your food. For their lack of “nutrition” all I can tell you is that I always add a piece of fruit or some veggies to them anyways, and I get my fiber and vitamins that way, or I add some grated parmesan cheese and a little salad to form it more complete.
Speaking of parmesan cheese, many public don’t know that, but it’s a great low calorie addition to your Italian meals, ringing in at only 20 calories for a whole tablespoon, which goes quite a enlarged way with parmesan cheese. whether you happen to like grated romano cheese better, like me, it brings the same amount of calories to the table, so you can add that robust cheesy flavor for minimal calorie count.
Back to the sandwiches and the bread you should choose though. I could tell you to choose a nice, light wheat bread that rings up at about 40 to 50 calories a slice, but I’ve had those before and quite frankly they are like eating air. For double the calories, you can additionally get double the fiber by buying one of the bigger, more robust loaves of bread, like the kind by Sara Lee and Pepperidge farm which feature nutty, fiber filled selections with things like ground flax seed and whole wheat for maximum fiber count.
You should try for anything 4 grams and above per slice. I even found one at 6 grams per slice considering it added inulin fiber to it, and let me tell you, when you eat that bread every day it really does help to keep you regular, which helps contribute to weight loss and healthy weight maintenance. Now, as far as choosing good meats to go on it, I try to stick to only low fat, lower salt meats, but whether nothing else I go with low fat. that can be a nice light shaved turkey breast, a light ham, or even a light turkey pastrami, but you won’t get a low sodium count on that one of course.
Once in a while you can splurge
Original post by EatingToLive
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