What do you consider a low calorie meal?

Tomhusker

Just finished my daily entries and I got to wondering what everyone considered a "Low Calorie" meal. I am talking about a regular, sit down meal that the whole family can enjoy.

I may be way off, but I start to panic when I see it go over 500 calories.

chrish1981

Agreed. I like to stick to 400 and below.

fromaquasar

My dinner meal is normally about 400 calories x

BigBoneSista

I try to stay under 500 calories. Its hard for me to get all my calories in during 1 day with doing that.

Tomhusker

I try to stay under 500 calories. Its hard for me to get all my calories in during 1 day with doing that.

I'm in that same boat. @ 500 calories for 3 meals I am still almost 1000 calories short for the day.

dwarfer22

Depends on your allowance for the day. For me, brkfst 300, lunch 300, dinner, 400. That's to fit my 1200 cal allowance. My hubby is 6'2'', 380lbs. He is dropping weight like there is no tomorrow and his allowance currently is 2000 cals. His breakfast is 400, lunch, 400, dinner 500-600, plus snacks. So I don't think 500 is a huge number, but it's all about proportion. I have also had some big meals for dinner myself, but they are preplanned events, like steak in the summer with corn and drippin butter and baked potato with salad and dessert....oh my.... Now i'm hungry

Balatsha

I don't really know what's low calorie yet. Things that I think would be healthy have a ton of calories in them. I was looking at granola bars today, and those were 170 a pop. So that freaked me out. I meandered my way on over to the nut area, and 1 little ounce of nuts, even "healthy" planters nutrition nuts, were between 150 and 170 a serving. And it's a tiny serving. I looked up some "low-calorie" meals on foodnetwork, and I saw a low calorie pasta meal with 584 calories and I almost gagged. I think if I knew what a reasonable amount was, I wouldn't be so scared of everything I eat.

zeeeb

i am not a calorie freak. but i try to do about 300 (breakfast) 400 (lunch) 500 (dinner) and 100 for snacks