Nutritious meals under 200 calories?
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HardcoreP0rk wrote: »arditarose wrote: »Queenmunchy wrote: »arditarose wrote: »I just made a big delicious meal for 188 calories, it's in my diary for lunch but it is:
1 bag shirataki noodles (rinsed and heated on the skillet for about 8 minutes)
142 grams bean sprouts
40 grams baby bella mushroom
3 oz shrimp
soy sauce
chili garlic paste.
This is my kind of meal. That's why I love the inspiralized website so much. She cooks huge portions for few calories - just like I do.
Yeah, I need high volume. I just discovered the shirataki noodle this week and it is my new buddy. I'll have to check that website.
I second the high volume comment. I've found that I can eat way fewer calories and feel much fuller on high volume veggies like leafy greens. I just have to make it really flavorful with great variety.
Yep. Hot sauces and a laughing cow cheese mixed in have done wonders for me too. I mean, my 300-400 calorie meals are so big I have to eat them out of a mixing bowl, or the fruit bowl off of the counter.
The flip side is, it's hard to reach my fat macro as I don't cook with oil and use a lot of fat free yogurt. When fiber is high and fat is low-not fun times.0 -
arditarose wrote: »HardcoreP0rk wrote: »arditarose wrote: »Queenmunchy wrote: »arditarose wrote: »I just made a big delicious meal for 188 calories, it's in my diary for lunch but it is:
1 bag shirataki noodles (rinsed and heated on the skillet for about 8 minutes)
142 grams bean sprouts
40 grams baby bella mushroom
3 oz shrimp
soy sauce
chili garlic paste.
This is my kind of meal. That's why I love the inspiralized website so much. She cooks huge portions for few calories - just like I do.
Yeah, I need high volume. I just discovered the shirataki noodle this week and it is my new buddy. I'll have to check that website.
I second the high volume comment. I've found that I can eat way fewer calories and feel much fuller on high volume veggies like leafy greens. I just have to make it really flavorful with great variety.
Yep. Hot sauces and a laughing cow cheese mixed in have done wonders for me too. I mean, my 300-400 calorie meals are so big I have to eat them out of a mixing bowl, or the fruit bowl off of the counter.
The flip side is, it's hard to reach my fat macro as I don't cook with oil and use a lot of fat free yogurt. When fiber is high and fat is low-not fun times.
I've eaten "volumetric" style for 8 years now. I'm never hungry and I eat A LOT of vegetables. My family also gets their share of vegetables since I mix so many into every component of our meals.0 -
Queenmunchy wrote: »arditarose wrote: »HardcoreP0rk wrote: »arditarose wrote: »Queenmunchy wrote: »arditarose wrote: »I just made a big delicious meal for 188 calories, it's in my diary for lunch but it is:
1 bag shirataki noodles (rinsed and heated on the skillet for about 8 minutes)
142 grams bean sprouts
40 grams baby bella mushroom
3 oz shrimp
soy sauce
chili garlic paste.
This is my kind of meal. That's why I love the inspiralized website so much. She cooks huge portions for few calories - just like I do.
Yeah, I need high volume. I just discovered the shirataki noodle this week and it is my new buddy. I'll have to check that website.
I second the high volume comment. I've found that I can eat way fewer calories and feel much fuller on high volume veggies like leafy greens. I just have to make it really flavorful with great variety.
Yep. Hot sauces and a laughing cow cheese mixed in have done wonders for me too. I mean, my 300-400 calorie meals are so big I have to eat them out of a mixing bowl, or the fruit bowl off of the counter.
The flip side is, it's hard to reach my fat macro as I don't cook with oil and use a lot of fat free yogurt. When fiber is high and fat is low-not fun times.
I've eaten "volumetric" style for 8 years now. I'm never hungry and I eat A LOT of vegetables. My family also gets their share of vegetables since I mix so many into every component of our meals.
Love it. I was almost going to start a new volume eaters thread the other day but I'm too shy.0 -
This cheesy vegetable zoodle dish is only 190 calories and tastes amazing:
I also love these enchilada stuffed peppers to freeze in individual containers for quick meals - they're 250 calories
Enchilada stuffed peppers
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^^love the calorie count on the zoodles. Never tried them.0
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arditarose wrote: »^^love the calorie count on the zoodles. Never tried them.
That particular dish is just some sauteed scallion, mushroom, yellow bell pepper, grape tomatoes, spinach and maybe roasted red pepper. Throw in one noodled zucchini and 2 wedges of spreadable cheese (like laughing cow - I use the Aldi brand which is 25 calories each wedge) and just cook until it's all melty. It's so good and takes less than 10 minutes.0 -
When I was on 1200 a day I would skimp on my lunch (big salad) so I could have my 100 calorie snacks AND a decent sized breakfast and dinner.
I wouldn't call 200 calories a meal. More like a big snack.0 -
The Ensure drink with protein is 160 calories. I've been drinking a lot of my calories after getting braces put on, it really makes eating less stressful since it's instant, no clean up, fairly inexpensive, and I know it's precisely measured. Downside is it doesn't give you the pleasure of eating.
Have you ever thought of doing cardio to let yourself eat more on those cardio days? A half hour on the elliptical will typically burn 300 calories, you add that to your leftover 200 and it's another regular meal.0 -
Queenmunchy wrote: »arditarose wrote: »^^love the calorie count on the zoodles. Never tried them.
That particular dish is just some sauteed scallion, mushroom, yellow bell pepper, grape tomatoes, spinach and maybe roasted red pepper. Throw in one noodled zucchini and 2 wedges of spreadable cheese (like laughing cow - I use the Aldi brand which is 25 calories each wedge) and just cook until it's all melty. It's so good and takes less than 10 minutes.
I didn't know there was a lower calorie wedge than laughing cow! Apparently there's only one Aldi in NYC and it isn't close to me at all
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I actually think the wedges are slightly smaller and that's why it's lower, but I'd have to double check. These are .67 oz/19g0
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Queenmunchy wrote: »I actually think the wedges are slightly smaller and that's why it's lower, but I'd have to double check. These are .67 oz/19g
LC is 21 grams0 -
I would love to see some volumetric type recipies...there are days that you just need a larger amount of food while still watching calorie counts.0
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I kind of feel like 200 calories is a snack and not a meal. That's probably why I'm fat. All your foods and pics sound yummy though.0
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Hi everyone,
I'm eating 1200 calories per day, and finding that by dinner time I only have 200 or less left over. I'm still hungry and still want nutrition... but can't think of many things to cook/make that will be under the quota. So do y'all have any good meal ideas/recipes that I could use?
Many thanks!
E
La Tortilla Factory wrap (100 calories)
30 grams of avocado (about 50 calories)
1/4 cup lowfat cottage cheese (45 calories) ---** you can also use half a cup of non-fat greek yogurt instead)
leafy greens / steamed veggies / cucumbers etc...
Delicious and healthy!
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I've just started and found myself in the same boat it is heard but I'm determined! 0
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arditarose wrote: »I just made a big delicious meal for 188 calories, it's in my diary for lunch but it is:
1 bag shirataki noodles (rinsed and heated on the skillet for about 8 minutes)
142 grams bean sprouts
40 grams baby bella mushroom
3 oz shrimp
soy sauce
chili garlic paste.
This looks delicious!!0 -
Shirataki noodles sound interesting, I'm going to have to try them.0
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sexysizeme wrote: »Shirataki noodles sound interesting, I'm going to have to try them.
The key is to put them on the frying pan to get the moisture out, and don't smell them when you open the bag.0 -
I forgot to report. I tried the noodles. The smell was less offending than I thought it would be from all the bad things I read about it, and I'm a person who never liked seafood or its smell.
I rinsed it well, boiled it, then sauteed it until it shrunk a bit. I then marinated it in soy sauce, garlic and other stuff and had it with chicken and white sauce a few hours later. It wasn't bad. I didn't mind the texture. Of course had I approached them like pasta I wouldn't have liked it. It's not a replacement it's its own thing.
Will I have it again? Probably not, unless it's presented to me for free. The price point is just too steep when the only reason they're being used is just to add calorie-free bulk. I can add low calorie bulk by just using things that require less work and are much cheaper, but I just have a curiosity to try anything at least once. Sometimes it works out well and I introduce a new food to my recipe collection like it did with seitan, which I will be making tomorrow!
Edit: apparently wrong thread. I thought this was the noodles thread. Oh well.0 -
@amusedmonkey if you have an Asian grocery store they sell bags for $1-2 each.
I have a lot of volumetric recipes. I can post some links when I'm at my computer.0 -
Queenmunchy wrote: »@amusedmonkey if you have an Asian grocery store they sell bags for $1-2 each.
I have a lot of volumetric recipes. I can post some links when I'm at my computer.
I'm not in the US. A small bag is about 10 dollars where I live...0 -
I really love the sound of these. Thanks again guys! Appreciate the support and tips.
Gonna try out the shirataki noodles dish (never heard of them), as well as the cheesy zucchini noodles one this week hopefully. Also never heard of "volumetric" style eating until now, but it sounds like my jam. Feel free to share some of those links too!
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I would love to see some volumetric type recipies...there are days that you just need a larger amount of food while still watching calorie counts.
I brought a four serving vegetarian stir fry with the shirataki noodles to a dinner yesterday. The entire dish was 200 calories...for 4 people! Now this isn't gourmet. It's basically as easy as it gets but here is what I did.
2 bags of shirataki noodles drained. Pat them down with a kitchen towel and put them on a frying pan on high heat for about 10 minutes or until they start making a squeaking sound
In a pan heat:
100-150 grams of each red and green pepper
1 clove of garlic, 2 tablespoons of soy sauce,
1-2 tablespoons of garlic chili paste
1 can Asian Stir Fry vegetables. I used Asian Gourmet brand. It had baby corn, bamboo shoots, bean sprouts. 75 calories for the whole can.
Add the noodles and boom. A huge meal for about 200 calories. I count these noodles as about 5 calories per serving.0
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