Need EASY and low cal recipes

bamagirl2020

Hi! I'm pretty new on here and I am in need of some new recipes to try. I'm not very savvy in the kitchen, so I need something pretty simple. I saw a recipe earlier that had egg whites, chicken, and spices in it and was wondering if anybody had any other suggestions? I'm open to trying pretty much anything. Thanks!

denise_earheart

I make home made fruit and regular pico degallo .. its easy and flavorful and tastes great on lean grilled meat like chicken or white fish go to google and type in mango pico de gallo or just pico de gallo. also tastes good on scrambled eggs ...

DKBelle

Hey girl I can give you some simple recipes. I am not sure if you like soups, but I like them a lot and since it is mostly vegetable and water it makes you feel kinda full so it could help you to eat less and burn some calories or fat.
One of my favorite is soup with lots of green beans, potatoes, onion, garlic, pork, and a bit of spices like pepper, salt bay leaves.
You have to chop 1 onion and a bit of pork meat up. You put the meat in a pot and try to fry out the fat from the meat in the mean time you can put on the chopped onion. In a different pot you have to boil the green beans and 1 chopped potato. When the veggies are ready you put with the water on the meat . After this move you put all the spices depends how spice you like the soup and also the chopped garlic and let it sit for like 20 more minutes. The whole process is really easy and fast. I hope you will enjoy it. Good luck on cooking it. Let me know how did you like it!

shumatet1982

Hey there and welcome.

I enjoy anything made of eggs. I ate a lot of "4 egg white + 1 whole egg" omlettes, but then I eat a lot of meat, the last two weeks. I preferr chicken, because it has an okay protein level, while being low on fat. But then again I like steaks, cutletts, what ever is made of animal.
If you don't like cooking, you should try a protein shake, just to raise the protein intake. (At least, this is what I would suggest).

Soups are great to cook for days, they even get better, the more often you heat them up. You can easily make a bowl for the whole week.

Also you can make some chilli varations, with lean meat. If you leave the corn away (some people like it, I dont) you have a pretty good meal.

Wraps are made very fast also. Just get some whole wheat tortillas, grill some chicken, cut a tomato, onion and salad, and cucumber. mix it, with a little balsamico, use salt and pepper and other seasonings, as you like, and you get a very healthy snack, which by the way, can be carried with you through out the day.

I hope I gave you a little inspiration. Have a good start.

*edit:
Oh and I forgot low fat quark. You can make very nice fruit quark mixes. The trick is: Let the quark soak up all the taste over night. Maybe add some whole wheat oats or raisins.

If you like, just write me, and we can start exchanging some experiences in the kitchen.

-Timmy

sconns21

www.bbcgoodfood.com is a really good website, their recipes are usually quite easy and don't go overboard with loads of different ingredients. Users also comment on recipes like things they substituted or if it was any good.

They have a section specifically for low calorie 200-400 calorie recipes (avoid the cakes though lol) here;

http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/content/recipes/healthy/200-400-cal/

I cooked a spicy root vegetable stew, which was lovely. It is supposed to serve 4 but I halved the recipe and it still served 3 and was only 291 calories and super filling. Here it is;

http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/1364/spicy-root-and-lentil-casserole

I don't know if you're from the US or the UK but the measurements are metric.

Enjoy

x

shumatet1982

Metric is perfect, at least for me, as I am from Germany

trud72

just "normal omlets" are great low cal and very filling i have 1 weekly and LOVE it!
try swapping your "normal" bread with nimble or one of them its 1/2 the cals which has gotta help!

Matchamatcha

Have you tried stir frys? They're very simple. Just use a little bit of oil and brown a small amount of onion, some garlic and ginger too is good, then add some chopped lean meat, and then a couple mins later add some water (sparingly) and however many veg you want: peas, beans, carrot, capsicum, brocolli etc. - also you can get stir fry veg mixes from the frozen food aisle. If you like you could also try and add some bok choy or that kind of leafy green chinese veg, they're really good for you. For flavour, you only need to use a little sesame oil (go very easy, it's a really strong flavour) and soy sauce (you can get salt-reduced soy sauce), and maybe some oyster sauce (you can also get vegetarian oyster sauce, tastes the same). Or rather than oyster sauce you could go to your local asian store and buy some miso paste (it comes in little tubs), and dissolve 1-2 tablespoons of miso in some water at the beginning when you're browning the onions, and have a mild, Japanese subtle savoury kind of flavour. If you still find it a bit bland you could also add some salt-reduced stock cubes dissolved in water.


Vegetables are very low cal, so think lots of veg!

For salads I normally do this, but obvs salads are all about preference, and really you can do whatever:
- either baby spinach leaves or one of those mixed salad bags (with the fancy lettuce - the darker leaf colour has more nutrients than say an iceberg lettuce) - about half a bag
- grate a whole carrot
- thinly slice a cucumber (the smaller type) and slice in half again, so you have thin semi circle slices
- halve a few handfuls of sugar snap peas/snow peas
- cut a tomato into small wedges
- put in about half a can of chickpeas or some other sort of beans, drained
- for colour and some sweetness about half of a plum, apple or pear
- 1/4 of an avocado per serve chop and add as needed (avocados are good fats)
then toss it all together. I tend to make a big batch and keep it in a plastic container, it lasts about 3 days. I only put dressing on into my own bowl as it's being served so the salad doesn't wilt too much. Same with avocado, I keep it separate so it doesn't go as brown. You can easily find a low cal dressing - but salads are very low cal so you may not need one - you do need some fats and it depends on how the rest of your day balances out. Something like a balsamic vinegar/olive oil vinegarette is generally not too bad. Any vinegarette is better than a creamy salad dressing also, pretty much.

If you want to add meat to that then fry or bake some then slice it into strips and toss through the salad. For carbs, you could add some brown rice (brown rice is wholegrain rice and it's more filling, has a nice nutty flavour also) straight into your salad, or have it to the side with the meat separate also. Or you could have a piece of wholegrain toast, or toasted pita bread, with the meat on top/sandwiched inside. If you're going to have the meat out of the salad on bread/rice/pita, you could fry or bake it with a little olive oil, and some parsley/other herbs (just dry herbs are fine), and a bit of garlic (you can buy preminced garlic in jars for the fridge). It will be nice and tasty and you probably won't need any salt, which is always a good thing.

Lemme know if you have any questions

Edit: I should say, rice is quite high cal, so work out how much works for you before hand. If you're just stirring it through the salad then you'd probably use half as much as if it were rice as a side dish, but you'd still be getting some filling carbs.

MrsFarrow

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