Fiber One brownies: Good as fiber, bad as brownies

[thistlechaser]

I'm in love. Fiber is the best thing ever. For most of my adult life, I've had "stomach problems", the kind that require you to go running for a bathroom frequently and too often by surprise.

Unrelated to that, I needed to work on my cholesterol and other assorted blood things. Not wanting to change my lifestyle (yummy, yummy fried foods), I thought I could "cheat" -- ear fiber.

And know what? Not only did it work for that, it 100% solved my stomach issues.

"But Thistle! I thought you hated all vegetables! How are you eating fiber?" The answer is simple (and yummy): Fiber One cereal. I eat basically three bowls a day (the "twigs" kind, so low low low calories) with a little of one of the flavored Fiber One cereals tossed in for taste. (And soy milk, which has tons more calcium than regular milk.)

Without any other change in my lifestyle, it did wonders for my bloodwork. Nearly as important, I now have NO stomach issues. They used to be a daily thing, bad enough that I never wanted to go shopping or visit or anything, because if I ate any food (or didn't eat any food) I might have a bathroom emergency.

While I'm already getting about 250% of the recommended amount of fiber, I want MORE MORE MORE! So I decided to find the Fiber One snack bars and brownies. Both have about 90 calories in them.

Today I tried the "Chocolate Peanut Butter Brownie". Um. Wow. So very much not a brownie. Not bad, but if you go in thinking it will be brownie-like at all... just don't. There was a very slight chocolate taste. Mostly it tasted like burnt coffee. (And no peanut butter flavor at all.) BUT! One brownie is 20% of your daily fiber needs! So that rocks!

No worries about eating too much fiber, so long as you drink plenty of water.

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Comments

[kelen.livejournal.com]

Those Fiber One brownies taste great I found. Was shocked. Sooooo good. :) I can't eat many of them sadly because they actually give me really horrible gas and don't help with the fiber issue. (But they sure as hell taste good. The bars too.)

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Ah, that's too bad! I find gas is a common problem now. *cough* But something like Gas-X does the trick, so yay!

I'm glad you like the taste though! Maybe some other flavor will work better for me. Tomorrow I'll try one of the others.

[kelen.livejournal.com]

Yeah, anything that is meant to add fiber by means of some sweet treat does that to me. :(

Mostly I find that eating green veggies, and cutting out processed foods really helps. For all I know that you don't like veggies much. :( I eat a lot of broccoli, and carrots, with apples, oranges, and tomatoes as fruits. Almost never get gas these days. Thankfully.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you like veggies! They're the best way to get fiber, you get all the other good stuff with them. :)

[kelen.livejournal.com]

I wish you did! I can't even imagine not having veggies. Would eat more corn and peas too, but there's not a decent market around that I can easily get to that has them fresh. I hate frozen stuff with a passion, and canned has so much salt. :(

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately corn and peas don't count! I like both, but they're carbs, not veggies. (Or, well, carbs and veggies? But they count as carbs for me, so it's something bready vs peas -- BREAD WINS!). But I do wish I liked other ones!

Hopefully I'll have time to go to the farmer's market this weekend and maybe find something interesting to try.

[bastets-place.livejournal.com]

For my purposes, they are considered "grains", and not "vegetables" because of the very high level of carbohydrate-to-other stuff.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Yeah. It's sad, the veggies I like... aren't. (Though it does make sense.)