40 Calorie Spaghetti Noodles!!

You know what I really hate? Diet versions of products. Seriously, they make absolutely no sense to eat from a health perspective. People think that they because something is labelled as no sugar, no fat, or a diet version of an already unhealthy product, that it is now healthy to eat.

I LOVE these healthy products though!!

This "diet food" paradox always boggles my mind. Take 95% fat free cream cheese for example. The regular version is basically just composed of cream and a few extra ingredients. However the "healthy" fat-free version is full of stabilizers, gums, artificial colors, and sugars. So basically for the sake of saving a few calories you are filling your body with lab concoctions!

So I complied a list of my top 5 least favorite so-called "healthy" foods:

5. Baked Chips

I totally understand the confusion here. All our lives we have been told that baked is healthier than fried. Obviously marketing these chips as a "healthy" alternative is an easy thing to sell to the public. These Baked chips are just as BAD if not worse than the fried version The fried version only has three ingredients: potatoes, vegetable oil, and salt. Whereas, the baked version uses dried potatoes, corn oil, corn starch, and the list of GMO ingredients goes on. I don't care what anyone says, these baked chips are not healthy in any way, shape or form!!!!

4. Fruit Yogurt

This is seriously an awful, awful product. Why can't people just eat plain yogurt and add your own natural fruit to it? Why do we resort to eating "no fat" fruit on the bottom yogurt. I once tried this stuff and felt awfully sick. The ingredients in yogurt SHOULD be: milk, bacterial cultures, and THAT'S it. This "healthy yogurt" is full of milk powder, fillers, gelatin (yum horse hooves), artificial strawberry flavor, splenda and corn starch to make it "creamy"and "strawberry tasting" (??) for 35kcal. Do yourself a favor and buy some plain yogurt and toss your own strawberries and honey in. It is low cal, tastes 1000% better, and your eating actually food.

3. Reduced Fat/No Fat Anything

This one really doesn't need an explanation. Fat free versions of an already unhealthy product just mean more unhealthy. First off, fat free versions taste horrible, the texture is weird, and your consuming some weirdo ingredients. For the sake of saving 50 calories, just eat the full fat version, or better yet, make it homemade.

2. Diet Coke

"I'll have a big mac, large fries and a diet coke." Really?? If something doesn't have calories wouldn't you start to question what exactly is in it? Is it some miracle product created by God? NO! Artificial sweeteners taste well... artificial, smell weird, look weird, ARE weird. Just say no....

(P.S artificial sweeteners are linked to migraines, over eating, sugar cravings, and brain tumors...)

1. Gatorade

Despite popular belief consuming gatorade while watching football on the couch does not make you an athlete. In fact this stuff was developed for ATHLETES, not the average Joe who watches TV 15 hours a day. Gatorade is pure sugar, used to restore glycogen stores for athletes. Drinking this while not actually exercise will give you a MAJOR sugar rush and a gut.

Ok, so now that I'm done with my rant, I'd like to share with you a "diet" product that I love dearly.

Tofu Shirataki Noodles. A whole package of spaghetti noodles are only 40kcal and they are not full of crazy, hard to pronounce ingredients. They basically are just tofu and yam flour. If you first buy them they have a disgusting fishy smell. The key to eliminating it, is to rinse them under cold water really well, boil them for 3 minutes and then drain and rinse them again.

Be warned the texture is nothing like spaghetti, it is more like noodles. They are very bland but, like pasta, take on the flavor of any sauces you mix with them.