The biggest waste of a diet food
What low calorie/portion controlled/prepackaged etc. food or snack have you purschased that was a total waste due to the small serving, bad taste etc.
I bough 100 cal Extra cheddar right bites and was so bummed that the serving size was virtually 2 tbsp. had 3.5 gm fat and no protein or fiber! Such a waste!
Other mentions include any Walden Farm Product (taste like paste), Blue bunny chocolate no added sugar bars (super small) and snackwells black forest cookies (50 cal for 1 cookie and too much sugar!)
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Jello Sugar Free Rice Pudding-60 calories. This tastes gross, but the chocolate vanilla pudding one is good.
I LOVE milk and tried skim milk for the first time the other day. Needless to say, one sip and I regretted buying it. Blehhhhh!
I'll stick to low-fat milk.
LOL, this is kind of amusing because I absolutely ADORE SF Jello rice pudding [I've had to stop buying it because I was going through it so quickly], & skim milk is the only milk I'll drink. I grew up on it.
hmm, I can't really say I've found a diet food that wasn't worth it. I'm pretty good about reading reviews & all before I waste my money on something.
Oh, I DID buy a jicama once & I really believe it was the grossest thing that I've eaten... in my life. People who say they taste like apples are literally insane to me.
Hershey's 100 calorie packs, the ones with cereal. 100 calories for a handful of chocolatey kibbles. Not worth it.
Yeah, a lot of walden farms stuff tastes like lake sludge, lol. I've found some good ones, though. The asian salad dressing is great.
In my experience of "diet" foods, they all pretty much stink. I figure as long as you eat healthy whole foods, there's no need for diet things like 100-calorie packs, Special K bars, and sugar-free jello-s, puddings, and chocolates. These things are generally all nutritionally useless and filled with artificial flavorings and food dyes.
100 calorie snack packs are ridiculously small. don't waste your money on those, imo
same with the cereal bars. they're good, but they're so small.
walden farms, on the other hand, is great. seriously, you get used to the taste. it has virtually zero calories so you can drink it straight from the bottle. you're drinking zero calorie chocolate; it doesn't get much better than that, hah.
100 calorie packs. the extra packaging makes them expensive and bad for the environment.
i hate pretty much all power bars. they're tiny for the amount of calories they have and they take two minutes to eat. i only eat luna bars when i absolutely have no other option.
Most things labeled "fat-free" -- usually means they added sugar and removed the flavour. I'd rather go with low-fat.
Walden Farms -- omg gag me
Artificial sweeteners... I'd rather have something totally unsweetened and let me decided how much and what kind of sweetener to add
for me, anything labelled 'diet' or 'sugar free' 'low sugar' etc... usually means they've replaced it with something really c**p instead uugghh!
good home cooking... can't beat it 
Special K - a total waste of calories, and you are hungry again a half hour later....
Still eat my share of Kraft Handi pak puddings but theyre only 40 cal so I can feel less guilty if I eat two plus theyre cheaper (not fridgerated) although not easy to find in stores.
"Special K - a total waste of calories, and you are hungry again a half hour later...."
I agree. They're really sweet and have almost no fiber/protein.
I find most of those 100 cal portion control things a waste of money, and most aren't that great.
I just buy what I am craving and zip lock bags and make my own single serving cal controlled things. I do it with cereal, chips, granola, teddy grams (ok not the best but they really K-O my sweet cravings), fruit everything and anything that I know I can not trust myself with an open package but don't want to deprive myself either.....that makes my cravings worse.
But to answer your question was the single serv almonds. I thought it was a great idea until I figured out how much I paid per ounce verse buying a can and using snack size ziploc bags.
i agree with the 100 calorie packs. also stuff like vitamin water/sobe lifewater/ snapple antioxidant water. i know so many people who gulp that stuff down thinking it's good for them...which maybe it DOES have vitamins or whatever, but it also has like 130 calories a bottle and in my opinion it doesn't taste that great.
WeightWatchers ice cream cups. It's like eating 140 calories of frozen milk in a 1/4 cup container.
Original Post by starcrossdlovex:
LOL, this is kind of amusing because I absolutely ADORE SF Jello rice pudding [I've had to stop buying it because I was going through it so quickly], & skim milk is the only milk I'll drink. I grew up on it.
hmm, I can't really say I've found a diet food that wasn't worth it. I'm pretty good about reading reviews & all before I waste my money on something.
Oh, I DID buy a jicama once & I really believe it was the grossest thing that I've eaten... in my life. People who say they taste like apples are literally insane to me.
Did you try it by itself, or with lime and powdered chile sprinkled on? They don't taste like apples, I won't lie to you about that... LOL... but with the lime, chile, and maybe a tiny bit of salt, it's not bad :) Just don't expect it to taste like anything else you've ever tried....
Original Post by aoifek:
Special K - a total waste of calories, and you are hungry again a half hour later....
and sick to your stomach from the 10 tons of sugar added in those special k bars... same goes for most granola bars too... They're more like desserts than meals anyway....
My major waste of money, Nutrisystem... OMG... YUK 
In general I agree with the 100 calorie snacks, with the exception of the York peppermint wafer bars. YUM!!!!! I would eat them even if they weren't 100 calories, I wish I could get them in just a regular packaging - they're sort of like a minty kitkat bar. Otherwise, pretty much yuck.
Original Post by aoifek:
Special K - a total waste of calories, and you are hungry again a half hour later....
I'll chime in on this one as well. Now, the cinnamon pecan version is actually pretty tasty - but I would never eat it as a meal.
And don't get me started on the "Special K challenge/diet".....
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