What is your current go-to meal that's quick, delicious, and helps you stay on track?
Ktmom19
Posts: 64 Member
Looking for quick, easy, delicious food ideas, whether at restaurants or homemade.
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I like 2% cottage cheese with a side of fruit. It usually is about a pound of food, so it fills me pretty well, and only about 250-300 calories.10
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I wish I liked cottage cheese! I cannot get past the texture. I'm currently obsessed with egg bites from Starbucks made with egg whites and roasted red peppers. I also like to get the steamable frozen zoodles (zucchini noodles), add tomato sauce and Turkey meatballs.7
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Easy fix for cottage cheese texture. COMPLETELY empty container of cottage cheese into blender. Buzz away. Scrape it down a couple of times. Pour it back into container. Presto chango! I also add a little vanilla if I know I am only going to use it with fruit.
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My favorite is a pork chop cut into bite size pieces, all the fat cut off. Brown on one side in 1 tbsp olive oil. Meanwhile put some veggies in the microwave. If you have leftover rice or potatoes, put them in microwave, too. Now turn the pork chop pieces over, add sliced fresh peaches, nectarines, plums, or whatever is your favorite. When almost done, add a little butter.
5 minutes and yummy!5 -
I wish I liked cottage cheese! I cannot get past the texture. I'm currently obsessed with egg bites from Starbucks made with egg whites and roasted red peppers. I also like to get the steamable frozen zoodles (zucchini noodles), add tomato sauce and Turkey meatballs.
Speaking of egg bites - I made my own egg muffins at home. You can make them how you prefer, but usually I use eggs, 1 frozen tater tot in each muffin, cheese, cooked sausage, spinach and some red and/or green peppers. I eat it with some hot sauce or salsa and yummy! Can keep in fridge for days and eat on during the week.
My stay on track, pretty easy meal is tacos. You can brown taco meat quickly and make it fit your calorie goal with the shell/lack thereof and toppings you choose...plus my kids love them.9 -
quinoa veggie stir fry. 15 mins and deliciously nutritious.4
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Eggs no matter what form is boiled scramble.... Etc
Chicken breasts in air fryer
Simple less time consuming and the taste needs more spices4 -
Pizza3
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steamed white fish with a couple of cups of mixed vegetables (fresh or frozen), and topped with a sauce of quark, parsley, spring onions, green chili and black pepper. Delicious.3
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Individual flatbread pizzas have been our go-to lately. Quick and easy, and can tailor it to match my day by using less or more toppings.3
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Spaghetti- zucchini noodles, tons of mushrooms, Rao’s sauce, Italian sausage ground turkey, a tsp stevia4
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Multigrain toast spread with homemade guacamole and topped with eggs over easy.6
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I just did a quick sautee of frozen veggie mix ( broc, carrots, snap peas, corn ) and smoked turkey sausage. Threw in some smoked paprika and red pepper flakes.
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peanut butter and banana on raisin Ezekiel toast8
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2 fried eggs on toast with tinned tomatoes and a sprinkling of mature cheddar. It takes literally 5 mins to make and is my takeaway avoidance meal.3
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Since you like Starbucks Egg-bites, here is the recipe I put together... I use an egg poaching pan instead of a sous vide. Sorry not quick to make but afterwards you have a quick snack or meal.
Carmalized Onions and Spinach Egg Bites
4 slices bacon
1 cup onions finely chopped
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 package Truvia, Splenda or teaspoon sugar
4 ounces spinach leaves chopped
3/4 cup egg whites
2 large eggs
1/4 cup lowfat cottage cheese
2 ounces feta cheese
salt and pepper
2 ounces Beemster goat cheese
Instructions
1. Cook 8 slices bacon crisp in oven while preparing onions.
2. Heat olive oil over medium heat and add onions tossing to evenly coat with oil and sprinkle choice of sugar on top and stir. Continue slowly cooking and stirring on occasion for 20 minutes. Add spinach, toss until wilted and remove from heat.
3. In blender or bowl combine eggs and cheese,salt and pepper. Blend or use emulsion blender to mix.
4. Heat water in egg poach pan. Spray cups with cooking spray. If adding bacon add one teaspoon to each cup, then 1 tablespoon onion mixture and fill each cup with egg mixture just over 3/4 full, cover and set timer 6 minutes. Remove cups from heat and turn over to cool on rack, then repeat process. Should make 12.5 -
For stir fry you can go really quick and dirty with a bag of broccoli slaw and whatever else you can be bothered with. A little soy sauce, rice wine vinegar and some spice goes a long way (onion, garlic, ginger). Ground meat or a frozen ground substitute cook up very fast to go with. Could even put an egg on/in it. 10-15 minutes maybe?
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At home my quick go-to meal for lunch is half a whole wheat bagel, 1 tbsp light mayo, two slices of tomato, and 2 oz. of smoked salmon. It's really satisfying and feels like a treat.
When I go out for lunch my quick go to meal is L&L BBQ to get a Hawaiian Beef BBQ bowl or their poke bowl. Both are low cal and can be ordered with brown rice.1 -
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At home:
Tuna with mayo on ritz crisp and thins
Green beans, cherry tomatoes, cucumber with olive oil and balsamic
scrambled eggs with whatever I have in my refrigerator
I cook a bunch of chicken breasts in my instant pot each week and shred them and keep them in the refrigerator and its an easily accessible protein
Protein shake, mix with water
To go from restaurants:
Strawberry poppyseed chicken salad from Panera
Wendy's baked potato with butter
Wendy's Jr Bacon cheeseburger with 4 pc chicken nugget, no dipping sauce
To go from Kroger:
California roll2 -
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A vegetable raw, hummus or tofu, some nuts or seeds, and a fruit; I put them all in the same bowl and it looks so healthy and delicious that I eat it up knowing it's so good for me. Makes me feel so dang good, I don't want to eat anything else.5
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Omelets: olive oil or butter in small skillet, any veggies or herbs: broccoli, onions, spinach, cilantro, basil, heirloom tomatoes, bell peppers, etc. cooked until tenderness of liking, throw in one lightly beaten egg, maybe sprinkle a little cheese, can add meat, season to liking, heat over medium low. Quick, easy, as nutritious as I want to make them, and very satisfying.3
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My wife and I are in love with a modified WW recipe we just call Greek Chicken
Take chicken breast and cut it down into small chunks. Put it in a bag with a tablespoon of lemon-infused olive oil and a greek seasoning (we have one we've made ourselves with garlic salt, garlic powder, dried basil, greek oregano, cinnamon, black pepper, dried parsley, rosemary, dill, marjoram, thyme, and nutmeg) and then I usually also throw in some fresh sprigs of rosemary and thyme as well and let that marinate for about an hour or two
Then you just cook the chicken breast in a sprinkle of oil and add in a bunch of bell peppers (we get home grown peppers from my parents and sometimes have banana peppers or seeded jalapenos or habaneros if we have them as well) and squash and zucchini and season those veggies with the greek seasoning mix as well.
The WW recipe called for orzo but we've cut that out to save the points. At the end we also top with some diced cherry tomatoes and cucumber and about a half-ounce of reduced fat feta cheese.
We also make a homemade tzatziki with nonfat plain greek yogurt as well.
Delicious and extremely low point on WW because everything is zero point foods except for the olive oil and feta. We moderate the sauce (no more than 2 tbsps per serving) and chicken (no more than 5 oz per serving) so we don't get out of control and overindulge on the "0 point" foods.5 -
Thanks for all the ideas!0
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Variations on crack slaw. That is, ground meat, onion, chopped cabbage, flavor to match the cuisine of your choice. Tonight's was taco flavored, but I have been doing quite a bit of curried lately, as well. I also do a New Orleans mix, something like dirty rice, but with cabbage.1
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Tacos. Quick, easy, filling. And easily fits into my goals for the day. If I can't afford the taco shells then taco salad is a great alternative. Also I keep chicken patties on hand. I'll bake em up, and then dice them over salad fixing. Super fast and easy.2
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pancakerunner wrote: »
Ewwww turkey breast no way, but I second the bacon. I've had it that way.0 -
I wish I liked cottage cheese! I cannot get past the texture. I'm currently obsessed with egg bites from Starbucks made with egg whites and roasted red peppers. I also like to get the steamable frozen zoodles (zucchini noodles), add tomato sauce and Turkey meatballs.
Speaking of egg bites - I made my own egg muffins at home. You can make them how you prefer, but usually I use eggs, 1 frozen tater tot in each muffin, cheese, cooked sausage, spinach and some red and/or green peppers. I eat it with some hot sauce or salsa and yummy! Can keep in fridge for days and eat on during the week.
My stay on track, pretty easy meal is tacos. You can brown taco meat quickly and make it fit your calorie goal with the shell/lack thereof and toppings you choose...plus my kids love them.
I make egg muffins on weekends too! I like it vegetarian but my kids like it when I put mini sausages.
I usually add Spinach, Green onions, Cheese and one other veggies like red peppers, cooked corn or half of mini tomatoes. I eat it as a snack almost everyday! Kids like em too
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