What are your staple meals?

raquelle69

I am not one for wanting huge variety.
What is your easy go-to B L D meals please.
I like an egg pancake for breakfast with a squirt of no sugar maple syrup. Sometimes I add oatmeal or coconut flour if I feel I need the carbs.

summery79

I like a lot of variety but when I am super busy, I have a bunch of easy fallback meals:

Breakfast: oatmeal/fruit/yogurt
overnight oats (sometimes with a hardboiled egg or more yogurt on the side)
egg omelet with cheese and veg
two-minute cheese and egg sandwich (microwave eggs)

Lunch: almost always dinner leftovers or a meal prep soup or salad

Dinner: Rotisserie chicken/ 2-3 veg heated from frozen
Stir fry veggies over rice (made frozen stir fry veg mix, any leftover protein I have hanging around, simple sauce made with soy sauce, rice vinegar, maybe some fruit juice)
Baked salmon or a steak/ cooked whole grain / 1-2 veg heated from frozen

raquelle69

Thank you!

summery79

No problem!

lynn_glenmont

I don't understand. If you're not a fan of variety, why would you want ideas from other people that pretty much by definition are going to offer more variety?

My easy go-to breakfasts include cold cereal with milk and fruit; raw oats mixed with yogurt, fruits, and nuts; and toast, bagel, or English muffin with butter, jam, cream cheese. peanut butter, almond butter, or tahini.

My easy go-to lunches include sandwiches made from deli meat and sliced cheese; PB&J; fruit & cheese or charcuterie plate; cottage cheese with fruit; hard-boiled egg with nuts, cheese, olives, etc; frozen and shelf-stable heat-and-eat meals; soup (canned or homemade); leftovers from yesterday's dinner.

My easy go-to dinners include the lunch choices plus, if I have a little more time and energy, cheesy scrambled eggs and toast; grain + veggies + beans and/or fried or poached eggs; grains + greens salad.

raquelle69

I am looking for inspiration and easy-to-cook meals. My meal variety is not perfect, obviously, or I would not be here.

neugebauer52

In summer - a huge portion of mixed salad, in winter vegetable soup. I love different home - made salad dressings, seasonings and fresh herbs to make every meal different.

raquelle69

neugebauer52 wrote: »

In summer - a huge portion of mixed salad, in winter vegetable soup. I love different home - made salad dressings, seasonings and fresh herbs to make every meal different.

Thanks for reminding me. Homemade salad dressings are the best! I make a balsamic dressing which is so good, I even put it on my chicken.

missysippy930

Steel cut oats or eggs
Salad with Ken’s fat free raspberry dressing
Boneless skinless chicken breast and roasted vegetables

raquelle69

missysippy930 wrote: »

Steel cut oats or eggs
Salad with Ken’s fat free raspberry dressing
Boneless skinless chicken breast and roasted vegetables

Very similar to my go-it's. Thsnks

Cerizez

breakfast: vegetable smoothie (spinach, lime juice, pear, cucumber, celery, avocado, raw egg)
lunch: chicken breast with hot wings sauce, and salad of pear/beetroot/fennel/grapefruit
dinner: peas, mixed veg, grilled fish
11s: rice-cakes & hummus
4pm: banana & peanut butter

nighthawk584

Typical Breakfast: All bran cereal with fresh blueberries, honey, 2% milk...banana or apple, yogurt.
Typical Lunch: albacore tuna mixed whole avocado & hot sauce with whole grain bread or wrap. full fat cottage cheese....Large salad & honeycrisp apple.
Typical Dinner: Air fried chicken breast or salmon with riced cauliflower or broccoli or mixed veggies. Large salad.

I eat these 3 main meals with smaller meals and snacks throughout the day. I mixed up the animal proteins throughout the week... I am ALWAYS eating within a 12 hour period. I usually eat around 2300-2700 calories a day. This is including exercise calories.

WinoGelato

raquelle69 wrote: »

I am looking for inspiration and easy-to-cook meals. My meal variety is not perfect, obviously, or I would not be here.

Meal variety has nothing to do with achieving your weight loss goals. Calories drive that.

Are you following a low carb or keto diet, that might be helpful to mention in your OP so that you get responses that are useful.

I’m another one that doesn’t have staple meals.

Breakfast had the most consistency either yogurt, berries and granola or a microwave breakfast sandwich. Coffee and flavored creamer.

Weekday Lunch is usually dinner leftovers, or a can of soup or sandwich, a salad from the work cafeteria

Dinner - let’s see last week I had:
Homemade Burgers with corn on the cob
Tacos
Stir fry chicken with snap peas, carrots and rice
Air fried salmon with orzo and green beans
Lemon chickpea soup and kale salad w/ cheesecake brownie and wine (book club)
Takeout Pizza
Chicken flatbread, nachos and beer (sports bar)

This week will be all different.

MidlifeCrisisFitness

Breakfast
Hard-boiled eggs.
Oatmeal

SnifterPug

Breakfast - nothing.
Lunch - typically a large salad and fish or chicken breast, or a stir fry of prawns, chilli, garlic, ginger, various green veggies and two eggs scrambled over the top.
Tea - small portion of soaked oats, skyr yogurt and fruit
Dinner - varies hugely. We eat out a lot. Typically it would major on meat and veg with little in the way of carbs

CupcakeCrusoe

I kinda have a go to general direction?

Breakfasts: eggs and toast. Eggs go any way, toast sometimes has butter/jam or peanut butter. Other times the eggs go on the toast.

Lunch: grilled chicken/turkey/whatever I have and frozen veg or protein in a taco salad (protein, greens, tomatoes, salsa, cheese, Greek yogurt)

Dinner: tuna on salad, protein + potato + frozen veg, or more grilled protein and frozen veg. Sometimes I'll fry up whatever vegetables are on hand, add protein, toss in a mixture of sesame oil, soy, and rice vinegar. Mmm.

Snacks: fruit, protein bars or powder

hesn92

Breakfast -
oatmeal. I like it with mashed banana and nuts, like banana bread oatmeal
Eggs and bacon, different ways. Either in a tortilla, or just on their own with a piece of toast.

Lunch -
salad
sandwich with raw veggies to dip in ranch.
Wrap
Or I will prep something else, like chicken with rice

Dinner is different all the time. A common meal that we like a lot is some type of asian style chicken thighs (with sauce) served with rice and broccoli.

lemurcat2

For much of my weight loss I had some staple meals:

Breakfast -- 2 egg vegetable omelet (but the veg would vary) plus either cottage cheese or greek yogurt or half an avocado or some other fruit on the side. [Now I tend to have a smoothie for breakfast most days, which includes sources of fat and protein]

Lunch -- dinner leftovers or some kind of stew or bean-based dish [made ahead for lunches] or salad with protein and nuts or seeds on it.

Dinner -- protein, starchy side (or the starch mixed into a one pot type meal, as with pasta or a stir fry), and lots of vegetables.

Soon2BSuper

My dentist told me that eating staples would make my gums bleed.

angelexperiment

Lemme see : depends on what I’m doing but typically keto coffee or nothing til lunch lunch might be bone broth and a soup then a snack might be a granola dinner might be something sensible like salmon burger and a veg. With some avacado dressing sometimes salad with avacado and salmon burger or tofu on top and sriracha on top. Eggs with veggie crumbles

nooshi713

Rice, beans, and veggies, lentil soup, veggie burgers are my go to meals.

jeagogo

Lately my go to lunch is a turkey wrap made with a protein flatbread. Works out to about 325 calories and 41g of protein, so it fills me up really well and takes almost no time to prepare.

This past week I worked from home a few days so I spoiled myself with breakfast at home, too (usually I eat breakfast at work). I had fresh farmer's market eggs, turkey breakfast sausage, and a waffle made with protein pancake mix, and just a little bit of pure maple syrup. Not the lowest calorie meal, but still under 450 calories

thebabadon

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Baked potatoes and chicken

thebabadon

Salmon and asparagus

carakirkey

Breakfast is very routine for me- 1 Hard boiled egg, 1 piece of ww toast and a bit of butter. If I deviate from that its a spinach omelet.
Lunch tends to be a spinach salad (with tuna or chicken) and a homemade soup.
Dinner is variable as I don't always cook it.

raquelle69

Thebabadon, your meals look good!

raquelle69

raquelle69 wrote: »

I am not one for wanting huge variety.
What is your easy go-to B L D meals please.
I like an egg pancake for breakfast with a squirt of no sugar maple syrup. Sometimes I add oatmeal or coconut flour if I feel I need the carbs.

To clarify: My husband does 99% of the evening cooking and there is a lot of variety. He thinks it strange that I could eat the same thing 3 nights in a row... which I would do if the cooking was my thing. When I cook (When he is away), it is in big batches so I don't have to cook as often. Lunch is nearly always leftovers. Breakfast: I usually eat eggs or oats with pot-set yoghurt.

I try to stick to 1200 calories. I will have an 800/fast day if I have gone over the day before. I don't eat wheat due to sensitivity. My H cooks a lot of meals from the 800 book...some gems to be found there!

Thanks for your replies 🙂

raquelle69

hesn92 wrote: »

Breakfast -
oatmeal. I like it with mashed banana and nuts, like banana bread oatmeal
Eggs and bacon, different ways. Either in a tortilla, or just on their own with a piece of toast.

Lunch -
salad
sandwich with raw veggies to dip in ranch.
Wrap
Or I will prep something else, like chicken with rice

Dinner is different all the time. A common meal that we like a lot is some type of asian style chicken thighs (with sauce) served with rice and broccoli.

Chicken thighs are great. We slow roast them in the Weber with S&P, tender and crispy at the same time.

raquelle69

Soon2BSuper wrote: »

My dentist told me that eating staples would make my gums bleed.

😆😆

raquelle69

angelexperiment wrote: »

Lemme see : depends on what I’m doing but typically keto coffee or nothing til lunch lunch might be bone broth and a soup then a snack might be a granola dinner might be something sensible like salmon burger and a veg. With some avacado dressing sometimes salad with avacado and salmon burger or tofu on top and sriracha on top. Eggs with veggie crumbles

What's a veggie crumble?

MaltedTea

B: egg white omelette (and kale or spinach)
L/D: alternate between tinned fish or roasted chicken (and kale or spinach)
S: Vega protein "vanilla" powder mixed with water to make a "pudding," popcorn with nutritional yeast or Ezekiel bread with sundried tomatoes or harissa or garlic hummus

S = snacks lol