This sounds dumb, but I'm just wondering:
Is it less fattening to eat a higher calorie healthy snack or a lower calorie unhealthy snack?
Here's an example.
A 530 calorie fruit and yogurt parfait I made myself with 3 cups of fruit (frozen blueberries, frozen mixed fruit containing mango, pineapple, peaches, and strawberries), roughly 1 cup of 0 % Greek yogurt, and about a serving size of grapenuts sprinkled on top.
Or
A 300 calorie debbie snack cake?
I know my parfait has more calories, but it also has nutritional value, which the sweet doesn't have ... then again, the sweet has less calories, so that's confusing to me.
One more thing, will having such a large parfait cause me to gain weight if I eat it regularly for a snack? (I usually only have 2 cups of fruit in it, but I was really hungry this time). Sorry for the stupid question.