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if you diet, or just eat healthily...
give me some suggestions for filling breakfasts and lunches and snacks, please!
today, i has 2 eggo waffles, one with peanut butter and one with margarine (brummel and brown, yogurt based), coffee and a cup of milk for breakfast. i had a banana when i got to work, with my tea. i just had a half cup of dry oatmeal squares cereal.
for lunch i'm planning on a nice salad - lettuce, carrots, cucumbers, red peppers and celery, with a 1/4 lb cold steamed shrimp on it. i have the bottom of the bag of croutons left (probably 4-5 croutons total) and will measure out my dressing.
for other snacks today (i'm an eater at work) - greek yogurt, sugar snap peas, grapes.
i have a fiber 1 bar that i keep in my bag for food emergencies too.
Re: if you diet, or just eat healthily...
Bfast: Cherrios (or a whole grain eng. muffin with reduced fat pb and jelly) and a banana
Snack: Raisins and Apple Sauce sometimes I will have a little handful of semi-sweet choc chips with my raisins to satisfy my cravings.
Lunch: Ginormous salad with lots o veggies and tuna (chicken or shrimp) w/ low fat Caesar dressing
Snack: Plum, Pretzels w/ Honey Mustard, and Cantaloupe
Canon 50D, Canon 50mm f/1.4, Tamron 28-75mm f/2.8, Speedlite 430EX II
One of my most favorite things to make for breakfast is a egg burrito. I make scrambled eggs, add salsa and some black beans. Roll it up in a whole wheat tortilla and viola! Breakfast. AND I can hold it if I make it when I'm going to work.
I eat fruit with every meal. In the morning it's usually a banana. I always have some fruit on hand, even at work. Lunch depending on the day, is a salad or a sandwich. Sometimes soup. One of my favorite afternoon snacks is baby carrots and hummus or some chips and salsa. Depends on my mood.
Dinner has been lacking the past few weeks. Now that my routine is a little more settled, I plan better. I use a lot of recipes from Cooking light. I've made it a habit to serve myself first, that way, I put my dinner on my "small plate" I need that visual trick. We have whole wheat pasta in the house (unless I make it myself). Our butcher in town is really good, and I'm getting a lot of nice lean meats from him. Helps that I've known him a while, he trims it anyway I like. I eat the veggies, getting the Hubs and my son to eat them is another story. They're grown ups, so I stop bothering to pester them.
I don't know how helpful I am, but that's just part of what I do.
Breakfast for me is usually either: AdvantEDGE Carb Control Shake, Cereal with skim milk like Cheerios, Special K or Kix or Sugar free brown sugar oatmeal
Lunch is usually a: Lean Cuisine or Veggie Burger, Bocca Meatless Chicken Patty or Oscar Mayer Deli Fresh Meats Shaved Turkey Breast on a 100 Cal 7 Grain Deli Flat and a half pickle.
Snacks: Quaker Tortillaz Zesty Guacamole, Light String Cheese, Special K Snack bar, 90 Cal Fiber One Bar, Special K Fruit Crisps, Pretzels or Popcorn
I have 1300 Cal for the day so I try to do 300 Cal for each meal then a morning, afternoon and evening snack of about 100 Cal each and then have 100 Cal left for dessert. Evenings are worst for me that's when I like to snack.
i get 2100-2400 calories a day - a few hundred go to breastfeeding/milk production. it is a lot of food, but i want to be sure i am choosing good, filling items!
i'm going to try to stay close to 2100.
Breakfast -
1. Yogurt and a cup of fruit
2. 1 Cup Rice Krispes with 1 cup strawberries.
3. 2 egg Whites on a piece of whole wheat toast
Lunch:
1. Salad with lots of Veggies and or some Turkey
2. 1/2 a turkey sandwhich with 1 piece of swiss on whole wheat bread.
3. Chicken salad with string beans as a side
Snacks:
1. Apple with Peanut butter (but only if i dont have a protein at lunch)
2. Any piece of fruit or some veggie cut up
3. Yogurt - if i didn't have it for breakfast
I try to eat only 2 proteins a day - it can be in breakfast lunch or dinner. Any amount of veggies, and fruit with the least amount of sugar.
Ina Garten (Barefoot Contessa) has a recipe and it's pretty easy! You can look it up on Foodnetwork.com. It's from her Back to Basics cookbook. Tips on making them: 1 - I use a rolling pin to make sure the mixture is really pressed in before baking. 2 - I let it cool completely and sit overnight before cutting. It's versatile too, you can incorporate other things you like than what the recipe calls for and can make it a bit healthier.
Breakfast: 1 cup fiber one raisin bran with splash of milk or banana with 1 tbsp natural peanut butter
morning snack: banana (I only eat this if I had the cereal for breakfast . . . if I had the banana/pb for breakfast, I don't need a morning snack)
Lunch (at 10:30 am, yuck!): 1 tbsp natural peanut butter, 1 tbsp jelly, 2 slices ezekial 4:9 bread,1 chobani yogurt, 2 egg whites
snack: 1 reduced fat string cheese or 3 wasa crackers with 1 laughing cow slice, piece of fruit
dinner: meat varies, but usually chicken based, a salad, a veggie and a starch (baked potato or 1 cup brown rice)
dessert: weight watchers ice cream bar and fruit
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my breakfast staples are:
regular quaker rolled oats oatmeal- 3/4 c with either splenda brown sugar or some fruit
egg whites with cheese & hot sauce, or ww toast (depending on how much time I have)
Greek yogurt and granola mixed in
LUNCH:
coldcut roll ups
salad with a protein-chicken, shrimp, tuna salad
tuna salad with celery and lowfat mayo either as a sandwich or out of the bowl
DINNER:
baked chicken breasts with veggies
turkey burgers w/ sweet potato fries
turkey meatloaf with veggies
grilled chicken with green salad
* I get bored with green salads so I try to switch it up,
baby lettuces/spring mix with feta and kalamata olives, cucumbers, tom & vinagrette
spinach with hard boiled egg, bacon, cucumbers & different vinagrette
iceberg with maries reduced fat blue cheese and tomatos
the classic with carrots, cucumbers, tom, peppers and spicy ranch dressing
SNACKS
almonds & an apple
pistachios
apple & string cheese
pretzels and apple
clementines
banana with peanut butter cup (JIF)
pita chips and hummus
Protein shake in a shaker bottle
Pair a fruit and protein to stay fuller longer