Egg white omelet:

120 kcal for 'large' or 70 kcal for 'small' omelet.

Recipe found here

 

Recipe:

3 egg whites

Handful of spinach (about 1/2 cup)

1/2 cup onion

4 or 5 grape tomatoes

Salt and pepper, to taste

 

Preheat the oven to 200°C.

Spray a medium skillet with cooking spray and saute your chopped onion for

3 to 4 minutes, until translucent.

Add your spinach and saute until just wilted.

Place spinach-onion mixture in a small glass dish (or you can use a small skillet)

and crack 3 egg whites over top.

Season with a bit of salt and pepper,

add sliced tomatoes and bake in oven for 17 minutes.

 

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One omelet, made with 3 egg whites, is 70 kcal.

As usual, I've doubled the serving, so I used 6 egg whites,

although I did use less spinach and grape tomatoes

(about as much as the recipe says one omelet needs) because when I eat an omelet,

I'd like to actually taste the eggs, rather than just eat vegetables with some

added calories in the form of white stuff that I can't taste because of all the other stuff.

I think my version was about 120 kcal.

(BTW, the yellow in the picture is from the spices I used, not the egg yolk)

 

Even this serving (almost twice the normal serving, which the OP said was 'a lot')

was not enough for me.

It was actually fairly little.

Luckily I wasn't all that hungry to begin with, but after I ate, when I was working

on my dad's omelet (with the eggyolks) I found myself munching on that

magic chocolate I made before, because my body simply wasn't satisfied with that one tiny omelet.

 

 

My opinion on this:

 

Difficulty:

★★

It's a fairly basic omelet. The only difficulty I've found was trying to seperate an eggwhite from a yolk that had broken and was quickly falling apart.

 

Taste:

★★★

Again, a fairly basic omelet. With twice the eggwhites and half the spinach and tomatoes it tasted just like any other omelet would. I didn't really miss the yolk all that much.

 

Serving size:

★★

Definitely not enough to be called a 'meal'.

MAYBE enough for a lunch-time snack, but that isn't really worth

the 120 or so calories when I could have a mueslibar,

which fills me up more, for less than 80 kcal, instead.

If you use an entire cup of spinach and 8-10 grape tomatoes on top of

the 6 eggwhites, it might be a more acceptable amount of food,

but then don't expect to actually taste any eggs.

Plus, that leaves it at 140 calories and I doubt even then you won't be

reaching for something else pretty soon after eating this.

 

All in all, it doesn't taste too bad, it's easy to make and the calories aren't horribly high,

but it's not something I would try to make a meal out of.

I think if I eat it as a side dish with a veggieburger

(about 120 kcal, so about 240 kcal for the whole meal)

or something, this would be pretty awesome, though.