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Title: Weight Loss and Maintenance
Notice:**PLEASE** enter notes in mixed case (CAPS ARE SHOUTING)!
Moderator:ASICS::LESLIE
Created:Mon Jul 09 1990
Last Modified:Tue Jun 03 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:933
Total number of notes:9931

503.0. "Food Exchange Questions" by CYPRES::HERRERA_LI () Mon Aug 28 1989 20:26

    Questions: 
    
    Are beans (kidney, black turtle, etc.) a bread or a protein
    exchange?
    
    Is squash (any kind) a vegetable or a bread?
    
    Is cheese (low fat) a protein or a milk exchange?
    
    I don't have any handy references.  Could someone share their
    knowledge?
    
    Thanks a bunch,
    
    Linette
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503.1Confusing????AKOV11::GALVINALPHA.......works for meTue Aug 29 1989 09:1014
    According to Weight Watchers, beans (kidney, pinto, etc) are a bread
    exchange.  Summer squash is a vegetable, and cheese is a protein
    exchange.  
    
    I found these listed in my W.W. booklets from when I used to go.
    
    Now according to the book "Eater's Choice", beans and squash (all
    kinds) are a vegetable product, and cheese is a dairy product.
    
    I probably got you more confused than you were to begin with.
    
    Hugs,
    Fran
503.2A little more infoATSE::BLOCKListen to them bits fly!Tue Aug 29 1989 12:2616
	.1 is right but incomplete.

	Beans can be used as protein or bread exchange (2 oz per serving).

	Winter squash is a bread (don't remember the quantity).

	Cheeses are protein exchanges (never milk; sigh).  You can have a
	bit more if it's lo-cal -- I think it's 1.25 oz per serving, but the 
	cheese has to really be lo-cal, not just labelled as such.  Look for 
	the calories per ounce, and compare it to the WW brand.

	Good luck!
	Beverly