Protein intake

Tribesmama
Tribesmama Posts: 89
in Food and Nutrition
Can you please help me with boosting my protein (without powders). Im veggi and im struggling to eat enough calories as it is , but i know im not eating enough protein which i could really be doing with to complete Insanity.
Any helpfull advice will be welcome thank you :)

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  • tonynguyen75
    tonynguyen75 Posts: 418 Member
    As a vegetarian, do you eat seafood and eggs?

    If you eat seafood, cold water fish and shrimp are good sources.

    If you eat eggs, you're solid, get a carton of eggs and a few cartons of egg whites, mix those together in a 2:1 (egg white:egg) ratio and you've got some a good protein source for low calories.
  • luciop
    luciop Posts: 1
    Kidney beans have 10g per serving. Most nuts have about 6g. Whole wheat pasta has about 9g.

    It's a start.
  • jayrudq
    jayrudq Posts: 475 Member
    Not that this isn't a good site, but my guess is there is a whole lot more out there on vegetarian forms of protein than here. Do you eat eggs and cheese? Eggs are almost the perfect food. Sorry, didn't see the above. Agree X2 seafood and eggs.
  • Tribesmama
    Tribesmama Posts: 89
    Thanx for your replys, iv started eating 3 eggs per day and a couple slices of cheese as i knew they had good numbers. I recently bought kidney beans to make chickpea curry so might start putting them in everything then lol. Thank you very much im trying to clean up my eating habits so learning new things all the time.
  • LilMissTalyn
    LilMissTalyn Posts: 106 Member
    eggs, beans, cheeses, greek yogurt! These are all things I add to diet that are not meat to increase
    my protein! just watch the sodium in ur cheese and beans, AND the cholesterol in your eggs, perhaps egg whites might be wiser a choice! you should be getting tons of protein while doing insanity! So you can build muscle...more muscle burns more calories! :D
  • Juiced_Justin
    Juiced_Justin Posts: 5 Member
    Quinoa is a good source of protein, especially being vegetarian. It is a complete protein meaning it contains all 9 of the essential amino acids. Egg whites are a great choice as well.
  • SwellyStyles
    SwellyStyles Posts: 52
    Eggs, beans, Greek yogurt, cottage cheese, kashi Go-lean cereal, protein powdahz when your strugglin' nahmean
  • michellekicks
    michellekicks Posts: 3,624 Member
    I've actually found some breads that are higher in protein as well... Franz thin buns have 5g for just 90 calories and Fiber One English Muffins have 6g for 100 calories.
  • Tessyloowhoo
    Tessyloowhoo Posts: 504
    I've actually found some breads that are higher in protein as well... Franz thin buns have 5g for just 90 calories and Fiber One English Muffins have 6g for 100 calories.
    Josephs pita, low carb tortillas and lavash bread is high protein
    Also When pigs fly's low carb whole wheat is high as well
  • DaniettaF
    DaniettaF Posts: 212 Member
    Have a look at this webpage http://www.nomeatathlete.com/vegetarian-protein/

    And additionally to that, avocados :D yumyum

    I'm vegetarian too and have used this to get more of an idea of things I can eat which are high protein.

    That being said I can never reach my protein goal under my calorie or fat one (on MFP), but as long as you're eating enough compared to what is healthy outside of MFP then I don't think it matters.
  • thinklivebefree
    thinklivebefree Posts: 328 Member
    Eat some lentils!
  • Commander_Keen
    Commander_Keen Posts: 1,179 Member
    Morningstar. And Boca
  • Tribesmama
    Tribesmama Posts: 89
    Thanx very much folks , im going to make a list , buy a couple extra protein foods each week with shopping :)

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