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Hiba
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Posted: 12 May 2006 07:07 am |
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I never realized how many calories and fat were in a packet of Ramen Noodles until I started counting calories. I don't want to cut them out of my diet completely because I love them so much (and they are practically a college student's diet haha).
Anyway, I was just wondering if I wanted to reduce the calories a little how I would go about doing that. Do you think the broth or the noodles have the most fat and calories? If I can figure out which has more fat/calories then I might be able to just take some of that out, or dilute it if it's the broth and that would help a little.
I just need some opinions on this. Thanks :)
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Peter
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Posted: 12 May 2006 07:24 am |
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Interesting question!
About 15 years ago when my daughter introduced me to them she couldn't believe I'd never heard of them. Well, she was in college! A staple food, I guess.
Sometimes for a quick meal I make a pack with a can of mushrooms and a can of green beans. But for a really quick meal I just eat the mushrooms and beans right out of the cans.
Peter
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Skipperdox
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Posted: 12 May 2006 08:36 pm |
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I have a daughter who is allergic to a lot of things, but she loves ramen noodles. They are very high in sodium, which is all in the flavor packet. I generally add only a portion of the flavor packet to her noodles and she doesn't notice. (That might be because she's only 4.) But I think they are almost too salty with the whole packet anyway.
I just read the package of ramen noodles after reading your post...Scary. Each packet contains 2 servings!!! I always ate it as one. Also, when you read the ingredients, they are separated into noodle and seasoning ingredients. After flour in the noodle part, there are several oils listed, then a bunch of sodium and potassium salts...Yikes!!! In other words, the oils/fats are in the noodles.
I'm going to yank these from my daughter's food rotation.
Thank you for the heads-up!
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Skipperdox
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Posted: 12 May 2006 08:43 pm |
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Chicken fat is also listed in the seasoning mix.
I like to add snow peas and finely chopped carrots and scallions to the oriental mix. That won't make it fewer calories, but at least it would be healthier. You could add any vegetable you liked to bulk it up and eat smaller portions of the actual mix. On a budget, frozen vegetables work well, too.
Point of information: The package I looked at was Chicken Vegetable flavor.
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Katrinaro
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Posted: 13 May 2006 01:33 am |
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I don't have packet to refer to, but I know what you mean. I hadn't realized the noodles were so unhealthy... of course I was very ignorant and thought all noodles were the same. :D
I used to eat them all the time last year, and I knew they were unhealthy because of the sodium at least. There were a couple things I did when I ate them so that I wouldn't eat as much:
--I always liked the broth best, so I used a lot of water with mine. It would fill me up faster because of the increased volume, and sometimes I wouldn't even eat the noodles when I did this (I would just drink most of the broth, and then save the noodles w/ a tinch of broth in the fridge).
--In order to use less of the flavoring and try to make it a more nutritious part of my diet, I would prepare them in this way: I'd cook the noodles, drain almost all of the water, add an egg to the noodles, and put them back on the stove, letting the egg cook into it. I'd add just a dash or two of the season, probably not even a fourth of it. Just enough to give it some flavor. A friend of mine likes to add a little soy sauce to this as well. This actually gave it some nutritional value with the egg, and almost eliminated the salty seasoning. And it is very filling (I could rarely eat all of it). However, I didn't realize that the noodles were so bad, so this still might not be a good idea.
Last edited on 13 May 2006 01:34 am by Katrinaro
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Hiba
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Posted: 13 May 2006 04:00 am |
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So I'm guessing by everyone's posts that it's mostly the noodles that have the majority of the calories, which is good because I like the broth more anyway hehe
And it surprised me too when I looked at the package and saw there were 2 servings in there.
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genodtwo8
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Posted: 3 December 2007 02:15 am |
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| Just a quick note on an old topic... I saw somewhere that the reason it is so high in calories is that the noodles are deep fried before packaging.
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DaniMae1
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Posted: 19 December 2007 06:08 pm |
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| Ramen noodles should not be on anyone's food list! Soooo many calories and fat! And MSG in the seasoning. They give me terrible heartburn.....
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mollymoo24
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Posted: 5 January 2008 11:56 pm |
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I started really looking at labels and counting calories today. I knew Ramen noodles would have a high sodium content. I looked at the package and it said 210 calories...I thought to myself, not great but not bad...then I looked again and it says that one package = 2 servings. 420 calories! OMG.
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Garnet15
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Posted: 9 January 2008 10:58 pm |
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Actually i too was surprise when i counted the servings per container.
It had 2 i was O_O
I ate them each night before going to bed. I mean every night.
I HAD to drop them. Now i do miss them. But it's the truth. Best not be in your routine meals. unless you work out a little more or something.
But my brothers still eat it =/ It's a quick meal for when you're lazy to cook
or not caring what you eat as long as you eat.
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Peter
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Posted: 13 January 2008 07:40 pm |
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I thought of this post when I had them a couple nights ago, with a can of green beans and a small can of mushrooms as I posted above.
I think sometime dieters fail because they try to be too perfect about what they eat. I think this makes a fun, quick meal on occassion... even if the noodles are not healthy.
If you're going to have them, see if you can't at least add some healthy veggies!
Peter
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allenwalker
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Posted: 15 April 2010 04:19 am |
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I can't confirm the validity of this, but I've read on a "make ramen healthy" tutorial that if you boil the noodles beforehand and then drain, it sheds some starch, and so gets rid of a "good amount" of fat. The thing is I don't know what "a good amount" is.
The problem with doing it this way is that when the noodles are transferred to the broth, they haven't absorbed the flavor so they taste bland.
I figured I would start eating them in the half portions while adding some mix-ins like meat or veggies to make it less nasty.
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Peter
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Posted: 15 April 2010 05:32 am |
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Yes, that would be bland.
How fun... my post just above is from over two years ago, and while it's infrequent... I had the same meal tonight!
Peter
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zenobia
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Posted: 16 April 2010 02:04 am |
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what i've done (even before i cared about cal or fat... yes, it was a loooooong time ago) was drain the noddles then add the seasoning, putting in a tad of new water so the seasoning would spread. they never tasted bland to me that way. i just always did the seasoning last...
lol- and i was surprised to see this topic pop up again... i remember this one from waaaaay back!
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beachwaves
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Posted: 4 May 2010 10:36 pm |
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I still eat them from time to time. But i think it is fine since I exercise regularly and don't eat too much.
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imagine
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Posted: 3 August 2010 03:22 pm |
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Nissin Beef Flavor Ramen Noodle Soup
Ingredients:
Enriched Flour (Wheat Flour, Niacin, Reduced Iron, Thiamine Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid)Vegetable Oil (contains One or More of the Following: Canola Oil, Cottonseed Oil, Palm Oil, Rice Oil)Preserved by Tocopherols and/or TBHQ and/or Ascorbyl Palmitate, Dehydrated Vegetables (Corn, Carrot, Green Pea)Salt, Textured Soy Protein, Hydrolyzed Soy, Corn and Wheat Protein, Onion Powder, Monosodium Glutamate, Caramel Color, Garlic Powder, Autolyzed Yeast Extract, Potassium Carbonate, Sodium Carbonate, Sodium Tripolyphosphate, Disodium Guanylate, Disodium Inosinate, Sodium Alginate, Natural Flavors, Soy Sauce Powder (Wheat, Soybeans, Maltodextrin, Salt)Beef Powder, Hydrolyzed Wheat Gluten, Sugar.
Check out the ingredients......enough of a reason for me to not eat them.
One word ingredients suit me the best; lentils, salmon, cherries, ....stuff like that.
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