15 Tiny Food Swaps You Won’t Even Notice That Will Save You 3500 Calories A Week
by The Candidly Team
We don’t typically talk much about calories. It’s just too easy to spill over into the grotesque, exploitive industry that is diet culture.
It also makes people furious at us. And that’s never that much fun.
Point is we’d much rather have a frank conversation about all the absolutely excellent stuff we should be putting into our bodies like THIS and THIS and also THIS, and not the things we shouldn’t.
But (and this is a real but)…
We’re also on a journey to be healthy. Especially since we crept past 40 and the way we eat seems to affect us in all new not-so-fun ways. Some of us are indeed watching our sugar or our saturated fats. We consciously think about the kinds of foods we eat and how much we eat of them.
And let’s face it, none of us are all that eager to consume 700 hidden calories of extra sugars and oils and processed junk we didn’t even realize were in some of the foods we’re eating.
And so, rather than restrict in some unsustainable way to lose weight, we also like to look for simple, easy, unpainful swaps in our everyday life that help us avoid dumb calorie traps.
We’ve all heard the thing of how it takes burning 3500 more calories than what we eat to lose a pound of fat. So just for fun, we found 15 food swaps that would accidentally lead us to this deficit. And okay, admittedly it’s not exactly 3500. But if we did each of them at least twice this week, it would actually be more.
Calorie Comparison:
1 Soda - 192
1 Cup Simply Lemonade - 25
Calorie Comparison:
Good & Gather Sour Cream - 60 for 2 tbsp
Good & Gather Light Sour Cream - 40 for 2 tbsp
Calorie Comparison:
Rao’s Marinara - 100 for 1/2 cup
Cucina Antica Sunday Sauce - 35 for 1/2 cup
Calorie Comparison:
Traditional Angel Hair Pasta - 200 calories per serving
Palmini Angel Hair Pasta - 20 calories per serving
Calorie Comparison:
Most Traditional BBQ Sauce - 70 for 2 tbsp
G Hughes Sugar Free BBQ Sauce - 10 for 2 tbsp
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Heinz Ketchup - 20 for 1 tbsp
Primal Kitchen A Tad Sweet Ketchup - 10 for 1 tbsp
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Kraft Shredded Cheddar - 110 for 1/4 cup
Kraft Fat Free Shredded Cheddar - 45 for 1/4 cup
Calorie Comparison:
Butter - 542 for 1/3 cup
Sugar - 255 for 1/4 cup
Applesauce - 90 in 2/3 cup
Calorie Comparison:
Raos’ Alfredo - 200 for 1/2 cup
Classico Light Creamy Alfredo - 50 for 1/2 cup
Calorie Comparison:
365 Mayo - 110 for 1 tbsp
365 Organic Light Mayo - 50 for 1 tbsp
Calorie Comparison:
Tuna in Oil - 280 for 5oz
Tuna In Water - 120 for 5oz
Calorie Comparison:
Perfect Protein Bar - 340 for 1 bar
The New Primal Buffalo Chicken Stick - 120 for 2 sticks
Calorie Comparison:
Philadelphia Original Cream Cheese - 80 for 2 tbsp
Philadelphia Whipped Cream Cheese - 50 for 2 tbsp
Calorie Comparison:
Ken’s Steak House Chunky Blue Cheese Dressing - 130 for 2 tbsp
Bolthouse Farms Chunky Blue Cheese - 50 for 2 tbsp
Calorie Comparison:
Doritos Nacho Cheese - 150 per bag
Quest Nacho Cheese Protein Chips - 150 per bag
Protein Comparison:
Doritos Nacho Cheese - 2g
Quest Nacho Cheese Protein Chips - 18g
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