NOM-NOM-NOM-NOM!

ADTonk

In honor of my new ticker/weight loss goal/me actually comitting to doing something with my weight loss goal, I'd like to share ideas for weight loss friendly breakfast foods, lunch foods, and snacks.  I'm great about eating well for dinner, but I always get stuck when I try to think of healthy foods that I can eat throughout the rest of the day..

What quick/healthy/low-cal foods do you eat for...

- Breakfast
- Lunch
- Snacks

-Breakfast for me usually ends up being high carb foods like cereal or waffles.  I'm not a big egg person and i need ideas for a low carb/high protien breakfast

- For lunch sometimes I make a simple chicken or tuna salad without bread (chicken or tuna + mayo + little bit of mustard + little bit of relish + salt/pepper)

- I do best with snacks - I've just recently tried Chobani yogurt which is high in protien and low in carbs, regular old lite n fit yogurt, any kind of fruit, any kind of fresh veggies (celery sticks, baby carrots, etc)

heyimbren

If you're looking for recipes, I've recently discovered Clean Eating Mag online and I love it.

I like Greek yogurt for breakfast, and fresh fruit. I'm not a big breakfast person, nor do I really like eggs so this is perfect for me.

You could make soup for lunches on a weekend then have it ready to just heat up during the week.

polkadot111

I love yogurt and homemade granola for snacks.
Also, check out this website. I'm not trying to lose weight, but these recipes are DELISH. I love that it says the nutrition info at the bottom. The lasagna spinach wraps are sooo yummy. A favorite of mine.

ETA: silly me. Forgot the website. http://www.skinnytaste.com/

heyimbren

Also, look up www.skinnytaste.com

ETA: I JUST saw Hope's edit to her post! Great minds think alike?

polkadot111

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[QUOTE]Also, look up <a href="http://www.skinnytaste.com" rel='nofollow'>www.skinnytaste.com</a> ETA: I JUST saw Hope's edit to her post! Great minds think alike?
Posted by heyimbren[/QUOTE]


For sure! :) Good site!!

MidniteRae

Anyone have any suggestions for chicken salad, tuna salad, and egg salad that doesn't involve mayo or any kind of yogurt? I love tuna salad but recently found out that I can't have mayo. 

csousa1

I have a granola bar for breakfast every morning at work, and on the weekends I make myself a veggie omelet. For lunches, I like having salads with chicken on them. I have tons of different things that I like for snacks, which I sometimes combine as a lunch. 

- Unsalted pretzels with one or two wedges of Laughing Cow cheese
- Pita bread with garlic hummus and tabouleh
- Granny smith apple with peanut butter OR a couple slices of cheddar cheese- Carrots with ranch veggie dip- Fresh salsa ( found in the refrigerated produce section-much lower in sodium and calories) with organic blue corn tortilla chips- Sliced tomatoes with fresh mozzarella and basil
- This one may sound gross, but cherry tomatoes and sliced cucumber mixed with cottage cheese and balsamic dressing

heyimbren

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[QUOTE]Anyone have any suggestions for chicken salad, tuna salad, and egg salad that doesn't involve mayo or any kind of yogurt? I love tuna salad but recently found out that I can't have mayo. 
Posted by MidniteRae[/QUOTE]

<a href="http://www.cleaneatingmag.com/Recipes/Recipe/Caribbean-Tuna-Salad-.aspx?sms_ss=email&at_xt=4dc949edff6674e5%2C0">A Caribbean Tuna Salad</a> (a traditional salad, no mayo or yogurt)

<a href="http://www.cleaneatingmag.com/Recipes/Recipe/Open-Face-Tuna-Veggie-Melt.aspx?sms_ss=email&at_xt=4dc94c043601c0be%2C0">Open-Face Tuna Veggie Melt</a> (calls for mayo, but I hate mayo, could you sub in something for the yogurt?)

Hazel_B

That website looks delicious!

polkadot111

Bren, that firsts one looks yummy. I love tuna.

becunning2

I'm so hungry  now!

I've been eating a lot of yogurt/power bars for breakfast or fruit smoothies, but they have SO much sugar, and I'm trying to cut that down. Alas, I may have to go the egg route. I no longer eat cereal because of how many calories/sugars most of them have.  Boo.

For snacks, I have cottage cheese (reduced fat), carrots/celery + laughing cow light cheese (= divinity), and I have the babybel lights too. I also occassionally do some hummus; have some really good athenos roasted eggplant hummus that's quite tasty! I also do yogurts (on the hunt for a low sugar yogurt that's tasty).  I'm going to have to nix the protein bars because of all the sugars. 

heyimbren

I love how at least once a day on here there's a post about food.

MidniteRae

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: NOM-NOM-NOM-NOM! : A Caribbean Tuna Salad (a traditional salad, no mayo or yogurt) Open-Face Tuna Veggie Melt (calls for mayo, but I hate mayo, could you sub in something for the yogurt?)
Posted by heyimbren[/QUOTE]
Hmm, I'm not a fan of mixing food, but the Caribbean tuna salad sounds delicious. <div>For the Tuna veggie melt, I can't have mayo, yogurt, or cheese.</div>

MidniteRae

For snacks, I love anything with peanut butter. As my mother always said "Protein, Protein, Protein." I needed a ton of protein as a kid. I love bananas with peanut butter, celery with peanut butter, apples with peanut butter, toast with peanut butter, english muffins with peanut butter, peanut butter smoothies, peanut butter granola bars...and so on. 

I used to eat a lot of tuna, but stopped once I realized that the mayo was making me sick.

I'm still trying to figure out what else I am eating that is making me sick. Chicken caesar wraps are always delicious. As is buffalo chicken or buffalo shrimp wraps.

becunning2

Oh my goodnss, I'm in love with skinnytaste. (*hits print on several recipes!*)

cu97tiger

For breakfast, I have a 100% whole wheat (not just 'whole wheat', apparently there's a difference) bagel thin or sandwich thin with peanut butter. It's totally filling but not many calories plus great for protein. 

This won't help Tonk but every weekend I buy a dozen eggs and hard boil them. Takes about 20-25 mins tops, and then I have a snack to bring in every day. I don't eat the yolk, just the whites. I usually have at least one a day, sometimes, two. Guilt free snacking... yay!

ADTonk

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[QUOTE]For breakfast, I have a 100% whole wheat (not just 'whole wheat', apparently there's a difference) bagel thin or sandwich thin with peanut butter. It's totally filling but not many calories plus great for protein.  This won't help Tonk but every weekend I buy a dozen eggs and hard boil them. Takes about 20-25 mins tops, and then I have a snack to bring in every day. I don't eat the yolk, just the whites. I usually have at least one a day, sometimes, two. Guilt free snacking... yay!
Posted by cu97tiger[/QUOTE]

I love hard boiled eggs and sometimes I put them in salads with chicken.  I'm not a fan of breakfast eggs though for some reason.

ADTonk

Thumbs up to Skinny Taste - the homemade chicken nuggets actually sound amazing

heyimbren

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[QUOTE] I used to eat a lot of tuna, but stopped once I realized that the mayo was making me sick. Posted by MidniteRae[/QUOTE]

I've never liked mayo, but I do like tuna so I eat tuna sandwiches a lot but without any mayo. I like to mix the tuna with some lemon juice and pepper and then just eat it in a sandwich.

alanna91

Well, I know they aren't techincally "low cal" but I love me some almonds. The calories you get from the almonds will give you some nice, pure, healthy energy though...and it's better to eat 120 calories worth of almonds than the same amount in something like sugar, right?!
I got into them because they're supposed to be great for vegetarians (protein, vitamins) and I'm not always the healthiest vegetarian around.

Frozen grapes are great too.

And pretzels and hummus....ahh! Especially the thin pretzels.

By the way csousa, I love your snack list and I'm stealing it. I love how it's all stuff I can eat!

alanna91

MidniteRae, I use this awesome mayo substitute called "Nayonaise". It looks a little odd until you stir it up, but it taste just like mayo!!!

edit: NO EGGS!

CCO2012

VITA TOPS!!!!!!!!!! <- Clicky  So delicious for brekfast or snacks and only 100calories and full of fiber and protein

I eat Lean Cuisines or soup and salad from St. Louis Bread Co. AKA Panera (calories are right on the menu board) for lunch.

Fruit and cheese stick are my go to for snacks.

Hope this helps!

Peaseblossom55

I always pack a lunch to work, yogurt with fresh fruit in the mornings, mid afternoon snack carrots, sometimes with hummus, lunch is some homemade soup or dinner leftovers I've cooked.  afternoon snack is another piece of fruit.  I sometimes keep at my desk dark chocolate covered almonds they are by blue diamond and come in a pretty big bad.  Those are for my chocolate fix.  Today I was bad they had cake at work, fro some people's brthdays and I had some.  I'm such a sucker for cake!