How to choose soy milk steamed buns that can be easily eaten out for weight loss?

In Taiwan, in addition to the most common soy milk breakfast shops, there are many similar small vendors, such as vendors who only sell rice balls, or comprehensive vendors who push carts and use round frying pans to sell everything from radish cakes and egg pancakes to toasted sandwiches (in fact, the toast is fried, not baked). Because their food is more like Chinese breakfast, they are classified as a soy milk and steamed bun breakfast shop.

The biggest features of this type of breakfast shop are high starch, high fat and high calories. Although sesame cakes or pancakes look dry and not greasy on the outside, their crispy taste or separated layers of puff pastry are made from a lot of fat and dough.

Shandong steamed buns and some Chinese pastry products have very solid ingredients and a lot of flour, so the calories are not low. Therefore, unless you are active enough or your metabolism is high enough to have more money to eat this type of food, it is easy to accidentally eat too many calories and gain weight. Therefore, people who want to lose weight are advised to pay attention to the calorie issue when eating this type of food, and eat it occasionally to avoid accidentally gaining weight.

Common food in soy milk and steamed bun shops

Staple food:

1. Steamed buns (vegetable buns, meat buns, or sweet stuffing buns, etc.).

2. Steamed bun (or add egg to make variations).

3. Pie.

3. Omelet.

4. Radish cake.

5. Rice balls.

6. Shaobing, fried dough sticks, etc.

Beverages: sweet soy milk, salty soy milk, rice milk

Eat to stay fit and healthy: Food choices and calorie calculations

Food Choices and Calorie Reduction Tips

1. Steamed buns instead of rice balls

It is recommended to replace rice balls, sesame seed cakes and fried dough sticks, which are high in starch or contain a lot of fat, with steamed or boiled buns, or lighter foods such as rice cakes.

2. It is recommended to choose unsweetened soy milk or salty soy milk to pair with the same staple food

Basically, 500cc of unsweetened soy milk has about the calories of two servings of meat (about 150 calories). If sugar is added, it can add about another 200 calories, so the calories are close to 300 calories. Therefore, it is best to choose unsweetened soy milk (you can still get the nutrients of soy milk, but with about half the calories), or salty soy milk. Since rice milk is made by frying peanuts in oil, which are a type of oil, the calories in rice milk are higher than those in soy milk, so it is better to drink less.

3. 1 steamed bun = 1.5~2 bowls of rice calories

Although steamed buns are one of the few staple foods with less fat in soy milk shops, because they use a lot of starch and are solid, one handmade steamed bun has about the calories of 1.5 to 2 bowls of rice. It feels very light, but because steamed buns are not easy to fill you up, it is easy to accidentally eat a lot of calories.

Machine-made steamed buns use less flour and are softer, so their actual calories are lower. So if you like to eat steamed buns, it’s best to choose machine-made steamed buns so that the portion is less likely to exceed your expectation. If you are the type who needs to eat a larger amount to feel full, it is better to choose to eat rice with meat and vegetables or eat noodles, order some meat side dishes and eat them with blanched vegetables, which may be more cost-effective (more filling and lower in calories).

◎ Calorie table of breakfast at common soy milk shops

This article comes from: Nutritionist Stella's Weight Loss & Nutrition Blog

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