There are so many diets out there now that it can sometimes be confusing to figure out what you’re allowed to eat and what can throw off your dietary plan. Even when it’s something that’s good for you, like protein cookie dough.
We can’t possibly cover every random diet, but today, we are going to go over how protein cookie dough fits into keto, low-cal, and high-protein diets so you can make better dieting decisions.
High-Protein Diets and Protein Cookie Dough
This is the most straightforward one of the 3 diets we’re covering. Of course, you can eat protein cookie dough on a high-protein diet. In fact, it’s one of the best ways to actually hit your protein goals and not feel like you’ve eaten an entire cow all day long.
Protein cookie dough does contain carbs, fat, and a small amount of sugar, but it’s nothing to worry about. However, it also has 15 grams of protein per serving, and those other things are extremely limited. So, it makes for a great snack that beefs up your protein intake without throwing your other macros off.
With 15 grams of protein, you get a little push that makes it far easier for the average person to supplement normal protein-dense meals, and even if you’re a bodybuilder who needs insane amounts of protein, FUUL is a great snack between meals that’s a lot more convenient than prepped chicken or beef.
It’s also a lot better tasting than a lot of traditional alternatives like protein bars and shakes. So, you can enjoy your snacks without feeling bad about them or missing out on valuable protein.
Low-Calorie Diets and Protein Cookie Dough
Low-calorie diets are a little more complicated when it comes to how they work with protein cookie dough.
FULL is a low-calorie protein snack designed to be well-balanced, but each bag still contains 270 calories. If you don’t eat your cookie dough responsibly, just like everything else, you can go over your daily calorie allowance. Especially if you eat multiple bags and then eat your normal meals.
However, you have to look at what you get for those 270 calories.
You get 15g of protein, 36g of carbs, 8g of fat, and 6g of sugar. That’s perfectly aligned with your macros, and it should keep you very full for a reasonable amount of time with just one bag. Especially if you’re already used to your low-calorie diet.
In fact, as long as you watch your calorie intake at mealtime and with small things like sugary drinks, protein cookie dough can make it easier to limit your calories for the day.
270 calories is not a lot. If you have 3 meals that are a little over 500 calories, you can still fit in a bag of protein cookie dough bites while staying within a normal 2000-calorie diet. The protein, fat, and carbs in the cookie dough will keep you from overeating at mealtime, and you’ll get the energy you need between meals.
With this diet, it all comes down to making sure you balance your other meals to work with the cookie dough, and the cookie dough is far better than snacking on something that isn’t going to give you the right macros.
Keto Dieting and Protein Cookie Dough
Incorporating cookie dough into a keto diet can be more challenging because it is the most complicated of the three options. It’s basically a very low-carb diet that pushes you to eat more protein and fat. As such, you want everything you eat to have as few carbs as possible.
Protein cookie dough has 36g of carbs. That’s perfect for most people on the keto diet, because the average carb limit is 50g. If you really minimize how many carbs you eat at mealtime, you can easily stay within your daily limit. Protein cookie dough also offers plenty of protein and fat. So, it’s extremely aligned with the keto diet.
However, there is one exception. Some keto diets require you to eat as few as 20g of carbs per day. That’s not something the average person does, but if that’s the diet plan you’re following, protein cookie dough isn’t going to work out. In fact, that’s such a low restriction that almost nothing will.
When you’re on the keto diet, and your carb restriction allows for more than 36g of carbs, there’s a great way to stay within your macros and enjoy protein cookie dough.
Basically, you want to make your carb source protein cookie dough. You can have it as a dessert after a day without carbs, eat it for breakfast to get the quick boost of energy you need in the morning before cutting off carbs, etc.
Just avoid any carbs the rest of the day, and if you do have a little bit of a carb allowance left, measure everything. Keto isn’t a diet that you want to mess up, restart, mess up, and restart over and over again.
You can also use protein cookie dough more sparingly. Instead of using it daily like many of our customers and sacrificing all other carbs, you can make it your weekend dessert or something you eat when you need a sweet pick-me-up.
Protein cookie dough works great with keto, but you have to put more effort and discipline into it than you do with low-calorie or high-protein diets.
What is FUUL? The Top of the Protein Snack Food Chain
The information we’ve given you is specifically about FUUL. There are other protein cookie dough options and even DIY recipes, but they often have completely different macros that won’t work with these diets.
FUUL is the best protein cookie dough out there. We designed it specifically to align with your macro requirements. It tastes great, and it blends into the vast majority of popular diets extremely well.
This makes FUUL an all-around amazing protein option that will work great for practically everyone. You can choose from two great-tasting options, birthday cake or chocolate chip, and enjoy well-rounded nutrition with every bite.
Don’t wait. Contact us to learn more and enhance your diet efforts with FULL!