Clean, FILLING 1800 cal menu examples?

anemoneprose

I've been maintaining for a year, but want to work on body composition. I can't accomplish that with my current diet, which is healthy but includes things that make life bearable - some convenience meals (canned foods), some fatty things, a bit of going out.

Not even sure how much to cut - have been @ ~2100 - 2400 for a year with no change in weight, but calculators have my TDEE at ~1850. So that's weird in itself.

I've been trying to get even to 1900, but it's been brutal

Any ideas on filling, tasty, realistic meal plans? Tasty's important - I'd have to kill myself on a traditional bodybuilder's diet.

Typical meals for me now:

Breakfast:

Coffee and brown sugar, 2-3 eggs boiled, or sometimes scrambled in veg oil, + whole grain toast (150 cals, yummy German bread, no butter if scrambled eggs), plus 2/3 cup greek yogurt or tomatoes

Lunch/Dinner examples:

1) 1 cup pasta, 1/2 cup tomato sauce, 1/2 cup some kind of meat (salmon, chicken), maybe some brocc or asparagus or mushrooms. 1 tspn parmesan only sometimes. Or else another combination like that (1/2 cup brown rice, 6 oz meat, sometimes a slightly fatty sauce, I watch portions)

2) 6 oz steak & spinach salad with olive oil & balsamic vinegar dressing (1tblspn total). Sometimes I grill the steak; others I pan-fry it in .75 tablespoon butter (it's so good, I can't tell you). If hungry may have 1/2 slice of that German bread to sop up the yummy blood and butter mix.

3)Tuna, chicken or salmon sandwich, ~ 400 cals.

Evening snack:

Cereal & 2% milk (cut with water, sometimes), oatmeal & apple, occasionally, PBJ.

Weekends do involve alcohol and/or restaurant food. I try to watch the food Drinks are lower calorie, usually.

So, that's doable for me, in terms of weight, lifestyle, health. Where can I cut without too much pain, and how? Or any online examples of meals that might suit this kind of appetite?

Thanks!

anemoneprose

Just to be clear, I don't want to lose, am happy at my weight. Am lifting, want to have a slight deficit to get rid of body fat. But I like food too much

Then again, I've just started a normal rep range for lifting, maybe I should keep my calories up?

Pebble321

My diary is sometimes "clean", othertimes full of stuff that is far from it.
But, an ideal day would look something like this, I'll let you judge if it's "clean" enough!:

Breakfast (about 300 cals) - omelette, porridge with peanut butter or poached egg and avocado on wholegrain toast. Today I had weetbix, skim milk and strawberries.

Snack (up to 200 cals) - home made latte, boiled egg or a homemade savoury muffin

Lunch (500 cals) - usually leftovers from dinner. Today it was homemade spaghetti bolognaise

Snack (200ish cals) - apple or other fruit, peanut butter sandwich, cheese and crackers or a muesli bar

Dinner (500 - 600 cals) - could be anything. Often seafood pasta, chicken and rice, steak and veggies, salmon and salad, that kind of stuff. Almost always homemade, except for Fridays when we usually eat at the pub.

anemoneprose

I'd say that's a delicious kind of clean - thank you for sharing