which olives are highest in calories?
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Anonymous
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My picky eater child needs to eat more calories, and olives are one food he really craves.
Which type of olive would be the most calories? I'm thinking oil cured not brine cured? Stuffed with nuts over stuffed with pimentos and/or garlic? |
Anonymous
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Oil cured would have more calories, yes. Nuts over pimentos, yes.
But honestly: unless your child is really eating lots of olives, it won't be a lot of calories. And the sodium intake is very high. |
Anonymous
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black olives have more fat than green ones, I just learned!
My child would very happily eat 1-2 Cups of black olives if I let him, but I didn't because I thought of them as a diet food -- they'd ruin his appetite for the meal. But I see 1 Cup of black olives 154 calories and 27% daily value of iron, 13% daily value of calcium? That's a decent snack. |
Anonymous
| My mom used to buy the cans of chopped olives and use them as sandwich filling--olives on white bread with mayo. I definitely was not a picky eater! |
Anonymous
| Use the olives as flavor for a meal. They pretty much take over. |
Anonymous
Me, too -- I used to eat olives and cram cheese spread! |
Anonymous
| The blue cheese and feta stuffed olives are really good, too. |
Anonymous
| I think large black olives - Greek calamata? - at Wegmans & elsewhere are probably as nutrient-rich as you'll be able to find. My impression is that the canned/jarred olives might have more salt than those sold at a specialty food bar. |
Anonymous
Can you suggest a vegetarian meal with olives? |
Anonymous
Use olive tapenade as a pasta sauce? Or pasta alla puttanesca with black olives and capers in tomato sauce with oregano? |
Anonymous
Me too! Green olives mixed into cream cheese and spread on a bagel. It was my favorite lunch! |