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Ice Cream
Eat This: Breyers Double Churn Creamy Chocolate (1/2 cup)100 calories
3.5 g fat
13 g sugarsNot That: Dove Unconditional Chocolate (1/2 cup)290 calories
17 g fat
27 g sugarsWe couldn't find a lighter ice cream than the Breyers. Keep this is your freezer and you'll drastically blunt the damage of any potential sugar binge.Cookies
Eat This: Late July Organic Dark Chocolate (3 cookies, 33 g)150 calories
6 g fat
9 g sugars
2 g fiberNot That: Oreo Cakesters Chocolate Creme (2 cakes, 57 g)250 calories
12 g fat
23 g sugarsWe only recommend the Oreo Cakesters if you want to try the get-fat-quick diet. Every cake packs another 125 calories into your gut. The organic cookies are short on ingredients and long on satisfying richness.Candy
Eat This: Nestle Raisinets (1/4 cup)190 calories
8 g fat
27 g sugarsNot That: Peanut M&M’s (1/4 cup)220 calories
11 g fat
22 g sugarsRaisins are rich with flavanols, so milk-chocolate lovers can still get similar antioxidant benefits. M&M’s can’t claim that any of its sugar is natural.Ice Cream Sandwich
Eat This: Turkey Hill Vanilla Bean Ice Cream Sandwich (1 sandwich, 70 g)160 calories
2.5 g fat
16 g sugarsNot That: Klondike The Original(1 sandwich, 81 g)250 calories
17 g fat
18 g sugarsWhat would you do for a Klondike bar? Inject your bloodstream with nearly a pound of hamburger’s worth of saturated fat? No? Oh, okay.Pudding
Eat This: Jell-O Sugar Free Dark Chocolate (1 snack, 106 g)60 calories
1.5 g fat
0 g sugarNot That: Jello-O Fat Free Chocolate (1 snack, 113 g)100 calories
0 g fat
17 g sugarsSugar is the biggest concern with yogurts and puddings, so worry less about fat and find one that’s minimally sweetened instead. Two-thirds of the calories in the fat free version come from added sugars.Cake Mixes
Eat This: Pillsbury Moist Supreme Reduced Sugar Cake Mix Classic Yellow (43 g mix prepared)230 calories
3 g fat
10 g sugarsNot That: Duncan Hines Moist Deluxe Cake Mix Classic Yellow (43 g prepared)270 calories
12 g fat
20 g sugarsReduced sugar equates to 15 percent fewer calories. “Deluxe” usually means more fat, sugar, and calories.
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