What are your Top 5 foods or items that make your life easier?

merekins

MFP goes without saying.
1. Food scale
2. Siggi’s plain whole fat yogurt (usually served with lemon curd and blueberries. Is a low calorie lunch/snack that satisfies me. Is like my anti-trigger food. Never go over calories on days I have it for lunch.
3. Godiva ganache truffles. 46 calories for something rich and indulgent.
4. Sparkling water or unsweetened ice tea.
5. Fitbit. My fitbit competitions with friends get me to complete 10k steps. Getting my steps in usually includes a trip to gym. Going to the gym makes me stay within calorie goal because I worked too hard to blow off my efforts.

seltzermint555

1) MFP
2) cold cups/tumblers everywhere I go (especially at work) encourage me to drink 24 oz of water many times a day.
3) a grocery store with excellent affordable food and great produce less than 1 mile from my house and very easy to walk to.
4) unsweetened original almond milk
5) marshmallows & chocolate chips in my pantry. Not so good I wanna binge-eat them, but good enough if I'm really stressed out and craving chocolate candy, 15 semisweet chips and 2 large marshmallows will do the trick.

chris_in_cal

1) digital food scale
2) inexpensive Withings wifi body scale
3) Garmin on my wrist
4) MFP food logging
5) MFP 'friends' and the accountability

MidModJenn

1. MFP
2. cauliflower rice
3. making sure at least 1 meal each day is mostly veggies (usually a big salad)
4. Primal Kitchen salad dressings
5. Pinterest for Paleo recipes
6. teeny snack-sized baggies to bring small portions of nuts and other snacks to work (I'll eat too much if I keep a whole container in my desk)
7. a standing desk station that my company installed for me

elisa123gal

1. whole foods
2. lunch cooler
3. vinegars
4. spices
5. food scale

grinning_chick

1. Frozen meals that are lower in calories than what I could cook the meal in question for myself
2. Frozen vegetables for out of season vegetables ($$)
3. Frozen berries for out of season berries ($$)
4. Seasoning packets/papers/sachets that come with with built-in recipes that list the nutritional information for them (unlike so many online, and even book, recipes these days)
5. Finding a couple affordable palatable (to me) protein powders

HereToLose50

1. Nonfat plain Greek yogurt - lots of protein and I get plenty of fats elsewhere. I use this a lot in savory or sweet meals
2. Scales
3. Vegetable "chips" as in slices of fresh radishes, carrots, cucumbers, etc to help with my snacking tendencies.
4. Sugar free jello helps a ton with my sweet tooth
5. Silicone baking items to make cooking things like yummy egg muffins so much easier.


If we could add a couple more things it would definitely be eggs and cayenne pepper or hot sauce. And real butter. You are having the fat calories anyway, why not avoid watery weird margarine and make it actually taste good? I end up using less when it's the real thing.

ultra_violets

1. Fiorucci proscuitto and mozzarella panino
2. Pistachios
3. Bagged salad
4. Eggland's Best eggs
5. MFP

VegjoyP

1)MFP
2.)Food scales
3.)bagged vegetables
4.)plant protein powder
5.) pack/ can/ tin of fish ( sardine, salmon, herring,anchovy, tuna, mackeral)

Athijade

1. Therapy, Mindfulness, and Meditation - I have developed a negative relationship with food and these things are helping me heal that.
2. Aldi - I try to keep a tight budget and shopping here helps. While I can't buy everything I want there, it is enough to make an impact.
3. Imperfect Produce - Delicious veggies dropped off at my door every other week? Yes please!
4. Asian/Indian market - Since Aldi doesn't carry a lot of specialty ethnic items and I eat a LOT of these types of foods, it is nice to have a cheap alternative to buying what I need and be able to get some hard to find items too.
5. Coconut Aminos - I have a soy allergy but I love Asian food. It's not 100% the same, but at least I can enjoy my favorite meals again.

melmoon90

1. Coffee
2. MFP
3. Gym
4. Spotify
5. Fruits

Could think of more but here's just a few lol!

endermako

1. MFP
2. Food Scale
3. Gym
4. Fake Pizza
5. Turkey Tacos

samuelgina91

1.Car to go to the gym and store
2. Gym membership which I use minimum 3x a week for weightlifting, cardio and sauna
3. Tape measure
4. water bottle
5. Replacing 3/4 of my snack materials with fruit (cause summer is a great time to do so), and switching that last 1/4 to a flavoured popcorn, or a mega cupcake from a bakery which I split with a friend.
6. Fitbit so I track what I actually do without dragging my phone everywhere, and reducing my overall stress with the phone notifications

fitoverfortymom

1. Food Scale
2. Meal Planning
3. Garmin
4. Whatever foods I'm digging at the moment
5. Running

LegendaryOrange

Bison/elk
Kodiak Cakes
Smart scale
My gym
Generic Mio

Kupla71

1) plain Greek yogurt 2%
2) sour pickles
3) almonds
4) black coffee
5) food scale
6) diet ginger ale

umbramirror

Apps:
1) MFP (prelogging my meals has helped tremendously)
2) Simple Weight Tracker (began daily weighing recently and it has been helpful to see weight trends to minimize my obsessive tracking tendencies)

Items:
3) Digital body scale

Food:
4) Extra dark chocolate
5) Various fruits
5) Greek yogurt
6) Peanut butter

durhammfp

1) A supportive partner
2) Coffee
3) Comfortable walking shoes
4) MFP
5) Scales: food and boddy

vggb

1) Dannon Lite&Fit Greek Yogurt vanilla
2) Avocado
3) Eggs
4) Ground turkey 93%
5) Fresh fruit and vegetables

chris_in_cal

Bump: I love seeing all the great ideas.