live with a 'meat and potatoes man' help!

Kira_72

need ideas on what to make that is good for both of us. I tweak meals often, but sometimes it's difficult, so I eat smaller portion. (like 1/4 of what he eats)
recipes??
ideas??

chunky_pinup

I'm vegan, so take this with a grain of salt...but can't you fit meat and potatoes into your calorie goal/macros? What are you looking for exactly?

Spliner1969

Meat and potatoes are good. I eat them often.

Seriously though, potatoes have lots of carbs, but if you cook lean meats it's good protein. Try more chicken it's leaner, or turkey, but I either eat baked cauliflower or potatoes (sometimes both) at dinner, and have the entire time I was losing weight. Potatoes are good sources of potassium which counter acts sodium in your diet. Red meats are good sources of protein and CLA which helps you to burn fat and build muscle. Just stay within your macros and buy leaner meats and there's no reason not to fix him what he likes.

I buy boneless skinless chicken breasts a lot, put a tablespoon of oil in an oven safe skillet, season and sear on all sides then bake it in the oven for a few minutes until it's up to temp. Let it sit for a few minutes to absorb back some of it's juices, serve with baked cauliflower or baked potato and gravy. Good stuff. Low calorie. High protein!

A 6oz boneless skinless chicken breast is only 180 calories and up to 36g protein!
1 tbsp canola oil is 120 calories, but some of it gets left in the pan I figure 1/2 tbsp when I enter it for this recipe.
1 148g Russet Potato microwaved or baked is 110 calories, 26 carbs, almost 700g potassium!

Those three things alone are only 340 calories, almost 50g protein, 2g fiber, over 1000g potassium. Add in one of the lower calorie brown gravy mixes (easy packets you find at the store) made with hot water and it's a low calorie dinner you both should like.

I also will take a couple hundred grams of raw cauliflower, a tbsp of olive oil, salt and pepper, and bake it while all this goes on for about 45 minutes until it gets brown around the edges. Makes another great side with lots of fiber, and 100g of it (2 servings per 200g you roast) is somewhere around only 100 calories total with an additional 4g of fiber.

Lots of options. Lean roasts are good in a crock pot as well, just add a little water and seasonings to keep it moist and cool it until tender on low (usually 6 hours or more).

jennybearlv

I am a meat and potatoes lady. I frequently eat over half my calories with my hardy dinner. Then eat lighter foods like salad and yogurt during the day. I start my new log at 6 PM so I know what I have to work with for lunch and dinner the following day. You will never catch me tweaking recipes, though I do measure out reasonable portion sizes for dinner and smaller portions when I eat leftovers for lunch.

rosebarnalice

I've been with my beloved for more than 30 years, and our eating habits are quite different. We've concluded that the importance of "mealtime" is more on the "TIME" than it is on the "MEAL". I cook what I will eat; he cooks what he will eat. And sometimes he'll eat what I cook, band sometimes I will eat what he will cook; and we're happy!

WindSparrow

Your meat and potatoes guy still needs to eat some vegetables, sometime. And you still need some protein and starch. So why not cook meat, non-starchy vegetables, and potatoes? Your plates might look a little different once you have loaded them up, but that's ok. Measure your portions - 3 ounces of sirloin tip steak is about 120 cal, a 3 ounce baked potato is about 63 calories, a pat of butter for that potato is 33 calories, a cup of steamed broccoli is somewhere around 50 cal. That is not even three hundred calories. And if your guy eats a much bigger piece of meat, a much bigger potato and decides to skip the broccoli, that's ok. Sure in the long run it would be good for his health to have some broccoli, too. But maybe the next day when you grab a rotisserie chicken from the grocery store, he might eat the dark meat while you have the breast; roast some Brussels sprouts and baby red potatoes with sprinkle of balsamic vinegrette to go with it - so your plate will have more Brussels sprouts and his will have more potatoes, but it works.

Lounmoun

Kira_72 wrote: »

need ideas on what to make that is good for both of us. I tweak meals often, but sometimes it's difficult, so I eat smaller portion. (like 1/4 of what he eats)
recipes??
ideas??

No matter what you make you are going to eat less than him. You have different needs.
Eat the meat and put more vegetables or a salad on your plate. Your plates don't have to match.
Try different ways of preparing vegetables. Roasted or grilled vegetables are tasty. I like roasted broccoli and grilled zucchini.
Try different combinations. I like green beans and tomatoes, broccoli with mushrooms and garlic.
Try stuffed potatoes.
I find lots of food ideas on Pinterest.