Banana sandwiches with a seed butter of your choice and melted dark chocolate. Dip then chill.
Healthy … idk if you understand the meaning of the word.
Calorie dense snacking? Sure.
Nutritionally complex, maybe.
Healthy? It’s a sugar bomb lmao
Bananas are moderate in sugar (14g per medium banana), dark chocolate is relatively low in sugar (5-30g per 100g, depending). Peanut butter is readily available without any added sugar.
Honestly, these seem to be closer to a “fat bomb” than a sugar bomb. If it were milk/white chocolate and the cheap, sugary PB you would have a point though.
I’m not sure you know the meaning of sugar bomb. A tiny bit of dark chocolate is not a real problem, even if you’re trying to actively lose weight, and PB and banana are recommended. So…
It depends where you are from. Sure it has proteins but it is also a very bad source of fat. And as such considered unhealthy in French standard.
Are you fat?
Looks tasty, but very high in calories. Not sure healthy is the right word.
“Healthy” is sort of subjective, especially in an era where prepackaged snack cakes and cookies and all manner of processed foods are super common, and often far more available than fresh alternatives. Is this healthier than just eating a handful of spinach leaves or a bowl of riced cauliflower? Likely not. Is this healthier than opening a package oreos, saying you’ll have 2, and then eating the entire thing while binge watching something on Netflix? I have no idea. I assume so, maybe I’m wrong. But this take effort and time to make, so you’ll probably eat fewer of them, and not snack on them absent mindedly as you would with something that took zero effort to obtain. Plus, this looks like it tastes way better
Not so sure about that when I was making my own protein bars I would eat way more, because I had way more available to me at cheaper prices.
It doesn’t have high calories. Also High calorie foods can be healthy as calories have nothing to do with the healthiness of food. 😐
I lost about 50 lbs while having chocolate covered strawberries nearly every single night. I ate like 4-8 of them. 90-180 calories, which I budgeted for by skipping any form of snacking except sweets at night. And bananas and PB after a workout were common too, so I don’t see what the issue here is.
In the big picture, you made healthy choices that made you lose weight. That’s great!
You treated yourself to something that’s healthier than other sweets you could have chosen. Totally reasonable for the same reason a reasonable amount of dressing can be in a salad (makes things palatable so you’ll actually eat that healthy stuff)
But none of that makes chocolate-dipped strawberries a healthy option, just like a plate of buffalo wings and blue cheese isn’t healthy just because it’s served with a few carrot/celery sticks. There comes a point where the good is outweighed by the bad. Strawberries are pretty high sugar as it is, but being a whole fruit makes it overall a net good IMO (you get other vitamins and fiber and stuff). But that chocolate dip is pretty hard to seriously justify, and can tip the balance pretty easily.
On the other hand, having the frozen chocolate raspberries (not strawberries) curbed cravings for icecream, and cookies, thus being an overall healthy choice, because my brain pretty much considers chocolate a critical resource. And normally that would be milk chocolate, but those TruFru raspberries with the dark and white chocolate are a perfect formula.
I wish I could pin this comment. These little egos just don’t get it. I’m speaking in reality and they are speaking in fallacy. So they can’t understand my words.
And there are people that have publicly lost a lot of weight while eating nothing but pizzas. Losing weight is just about consuming fewer calories than you’re expending. You can eat calorie dense foods like the OP, you just get less volume for the number of calories
From a weight loss perspective though, the OP is just a peanut butter cup and banana as a snack
Yes, all true. But 1, if you’ve worked out, banana and PB is a great protein and recovery snack, and 2, if this helps you not eat cookies or ice cream, that’s far healthier. You could even dip them in some nuts or granola after the chocolate. Also, one could use less peanut butter than this, and you’d have control over the chocolate used.
Calories are energy. When more calories are taken in than burned off, that surplus is stored. Unhealthiness is largely linked to weight in this day and age.
Now yes, there’s a huge difference between 600 calories of ice cream and 600 calories of a well-balanced salad. But going to the original post, chocolate and nut butter is not exactly a health food or else I’d be at my healthiest from all the Reese’s cups I avoided handing out to kids at Halloween (they can have the Milk Duds). Adding banana certainly helps, but is there enough there to turn the whole package into something “healthy”? I have my doubts.
How dare you slander the duds like that!
How many calories does it have? Banana, peanut (or cashew or almond etc.) butter and chocolate are all high cal foods. So mixing them is unlikely to be low cal
As for your second point, I agree 100%. There’s an entire discussion to be had about the nuance. I think the most important thing is not assuming that low cal foods are healthy in any way, and also not assuming that healthy foods would be low cal. Basically just two separate concepts, sometimes they overlap sometimes not
Sorry you got dog piled op. No way you could’ve known these folks were using healthy as a stand-in for low calorie.
If they want to cry about calories. Then they can do that. Smart people that are interested will just make the snack lol
My guess… That’s about 80-90 cals per bite, and it’s a high glycemic index treat. 1-2 might be good pre lifting session, or 2-3 post workout combined with another carb and protein source. But definitely more on the treat side than healthy food side. It looks delicious though!
Impressive thinking. I wonder what you consider High Calorie food.
Peanut butter is one of the most calorie dense foods I can think of. Chocolate is very calorie dense as well. Bananas are less calorie dense, but still dense for a fruit
Would this be healthier than eating a Reeses peanut butter cup and a banana? If so, how?
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This looks to be as tasty as my New York Style Cheesecake Stuffed, Chocolate covered, graham cracker crumb rolled, Strawberries.
Probably a lot less fattening though.
It is tasty. You should try it
So much insecurity in these comments, jesus christ. This must be like repressed gay people being the biggest anti-lgbt politicians. We get it, you’re fat and hate yourself. You don’t have to put down perfectly fine food to make yourself feel better.
😹 great comment. It’s crazy they decided to talk about calories to the extent they have.
That looks great.
😋 riiiight!
Oh hell yeah. Loving the salt flakes too - they seem counter-intuitive but work really well.
Not healthy!!! You can defuse this macro bomb only by using low sugar chocolate and powder pb. Still a fancy banana
Uncultured dolts I swear. Organic raw dark chocolate brands seldom put high levels of sugar in. Who said this wasn’t a low sugar chocolate? Because it is.
Because everything is about me and I make decisions based on how much I love money so I buy the cheapest bulk bin chocolate chips unless restrained by the Macro Gods
My mom used to make basically this, but she would use one banana slice and one Ritz cracker. Sometimes peanut butter, sometimes almond butter. So. Freaking. Amazing.
Im inspired to try this, with some changes:
- thinner banana slices (but still hold their shape)
- a thinner layer of nut butter
- fully-dipped in chocolate, and laid flat on the tray
Im biased towards the chocolate, and by thinning the layers, I think its possible to call this a cookie.
Substitute with Nutella and marshmallows and we’re good!
My wife is very allergic to nuts and bananas, so yeah, she would need the substitute version.
Damn. You name two unhealthy things. Just to defeat the purpose. You people 🤢
Feed this sugar bomb to the preschoolers whose parents are late picking them up. Either you’ll have so much help running around picking up all the toys and hurling them into the big bin, or the parents who finally arrive will get what they deserve.
Sugar high is a long busted myth.
