Let's talk about those products that should be avoided? Unfortunately, in our country, it is on their basis that many build their diet - which, let's say, is very short-sighted. And I will not once again repeat the well-known common truths: a dirty trick is a dirty trick because it harms health and... even a wallet, despite its cheapness. And often cheapness is deceiving ...
At first glance, my list of “forbidden to buy” is not that big. Today, about the first two points from it - those products after which people quickly feel hungry: what they ate and what they didn't!
These products make us spend more - after all, we want to eat!
Cheap pasta
Yes, I think that gray pasta (the same "own brands" of chains and other more than budget brands) is not worth buying. Yes, it's cheap.
But, firstly, you want to... beckon to cook them so that they can be eaten at home (because the mass that sticks together into one lump rarely makes anyone appetite), and secondly, satiety from quiet products "superficial". Yes, they seem to be "fatty", carbohydrate, but... Satiety after them will quickly pass, and you will want to catch up with something.
As a result, food and then "catching up" will be more expensive than if you made normal pasta from durum flour. It's for the money. Well, and in terms of calories - you pick up the excess, they will be deposited.
Honestly, it is better to buy the same "Barilla" for a promotion for 50 rubles a pack, you can just eat it with tomato sauce.
Cheap confectionery
All kinds of cookies, gingerbread and other nonsense, in which there are more surrogates than normal ingredients, are definitely prohibited! And the point here, again, is not even a benefit, but a cost.
Somehow, out of curiosity, I conducted a survey among my acquaintances, asking them to name the reasons why they drink tea with all kinds of cookies-cakes (most often, by the way, they are quite cheap).
The answers surprised me: people admitted that there is no special love for sweets, they just... want to eat! Even after lunch-dinner. And you drink some tea, and it seems like satiety finally appears. Therefore, a habit is formed - there is a feeling of hunger - to drink tea with sweet.
I am not a nutritionist, I will not describe the mechanism of the appearance of a feeling of satiety, I will simply say: over time, people begin to buy more and more sweet and cheap things. For snacks, for dessert after meals.
And spending is getting higher and higher - but at the expense of quality for the sake of quantity. All then, that is normal in this confectionery - well, except perhaps sugar. Butter - replaced by margarine, flour - of poor quality, strange "yeshki" and thickeners instead of jam, confectionery icing instead of chocolate, and so on.
No, I do not recommend replacing cheap pastries with expensive ones. I suggest that the money that is spent on cheap confectionery should be spent on other products: healthier. This will help to diversify the diet - once, and prepare food more... balanced. Instead of tea with cookies, add bean salad to the meal, for example - and there are more benefits, and the feeling of fullness will not disappear so quickly, and you will not overload calories.
I do not impose my opinion, but I propose to think about it and... as always, bon appetit!