how fattening are tinned beans and spaghetti?

[joko]

...er...thats the question...lol

thanks

[oldwoman]

210 grams of each.. which is half a large tin is 160 calories. Which in itself is not fattening. If you add that to toast with butter on it goes up to nearer 500 calories. Dry toast and beans does`nt have the same ring does it. As always its the added bits that make food fattening. You could always get reduced sugar ones.

[Scarlett]

On some diets (Slimming World) they are "free". They are relatively low fat, and filling, so far far better than biccies or choc! However, baked beans tend to be full of sugar and salt, and tinned spaghetti is made from nasty processed white pasta. Beans are great for you, but a whole lot better if you buy tinned mixed beans, rinse them, then add them to a tomato based dish (chilli/curry/bolognese). Spaghetti is much better if you buy wholemeal spaghetti and cook it yourself. Basically, home cooked food, from scratch, using whole ingredients, are far better for you than anything processed and in a tin, with added sugar and salt. Neither are fattening as such, but they won't make you feel great.

[Gef]

Like everything else they will make you fat if you consume too many calories.

[bardotagogo]

avocados are pretty fattening too...lots of people will maintain that they contain 'good' fats, but at the end of the day they are calorific and not really very filling