300 calorie "meal" ideas

I can't really say I have many 'full meals' under 300.. The only thing I could say is sometimes I'll have a russett potato (around 110 calories) and a serving of Ready Pac Grand Parisian salad (140, filling and delicious!)

Chicken strips (John Soules Foods - Fully Cooked Chicken Breast Strips Grilled, 3 oz = 110) with either a bowl of jasmine rice (around 200) or a mission tortilla (150) and a handful of grapes or maybe one or two dates (which sadly are high in calories but not necessarily bad for you).

Edit: OH! Something else I thought of is matza ball soup in chicken broth. That's relatively low in calories (Manischewitz - Matza Ball Soup W/ 1 Matza Ball, 1 cup with w matza ball = 40 calories) That plus a salad, or some chicken would be lovely and a fairly light meal.

You could get rice paper and make your own oriental style wraps with lost of veggies and some meat in them.

I always try to keep my meals around 300 calories. Check out myrecipes.com and search through the Cooking Light recipes. Really delicious, most are easy, and low calorie, fat, etc.

DINNER or LUNCH

Try:
Salmon - Walmart - Fillets Wild Caught (4 oz piece) = ~100 calories
*You can make it low calorie by baking it with lemon juice, garlic, parsley and other herbs*

Asparagus - You can boil/steam/roast/grill - (try not to add oil, but you can drizzle them with evoo if you want which adds more calories... add pepper to them if you like) - 8 ounces ( Weigh after you break off the stems) = ~50 calories

Brown rice - Half a serving of brown rice - that is about 70g cooked brown rice. ~ 80 calories

For the rest of the calories: You can increase the rice to 140g instead of 70g. (70g is a pretty small portion)
You can add more vegetables to fill you up, more asparagus, broccoli or anything you like.

If you want sweet add a fruit:
Mango: 120g about 4 ounces = 80 calories
Apple: 150g about 5 ounces = 80 calories
Orange: 100g about 3.5 ounces = 80 calories

Any fruit you like would do


* if you don't like the fish, sub Kirkland Bonless, Skinless Chicken Breast - Grilled - Chicken Boneless//Skinless Grilled
3 ounces = 100 calories

300 calorie meals are hard to do.. good luck! Eat a lot of fruit and vegetables!!

You could get rice paper and make your own oriental style wraps with lost of veggies and some meat in them.

Where can you find these rice paper wraps and what are the calories for one?

I often eat under 300 for breakfast and lunch, it's not that difficult with salad and lean meat. Try:

- scrambled egg x 2 (140), smoked salmon (90), mushrooms (20)
- banana (100), oatmeal (100), boiled egg (70)
- Greek yoghurt (100), blueberries, strawberries (50), slice light toast (50) and peanut butter (50)
- tons and tons of othe breakfasts! Check diary.

- Asian broth of chicken stock, soy, lime, lemongrass,
Chillies, pak choi, mushrooms (100) served with grilled prawn skewers (80) and rice (140)
- grilled cod fillet with Cajun spices (120), green peas (80) and sweet potato and red pepper wedges (100)
- chilli made with small amount of lean beef (150), canned tomatoes (40), chillies, carrots, onion (30) tbsp red beans (30), and big crunchy green salad with corn (50)
-stuffed bell peppers (30)with ground turkey (80), any diced veggies (30), top with salsa (20) and serve with roasted squash, aubergine, onion (50)
- "burger" - lean beef patty (150) on a big flat mushroom (10) topped with salsa,beetroot slices, tomato (30) served with sweet potato wedges (100)
- "Pizza" - a wholemeal tortilla (100) spread thinly with tomato sauce (20), low fat mozzarella (50) and slices thin salami (50), big rocket (arugola?) salad with grilled courgette (zucchini) and basalmic vinegar (50)
- crab cakes- mix tinned crab (70), egg (70), chilli, lime, spices, spring onion (scallions?) in a bowl, shape into crab cakes and fry, serve with little corn (60), and a coleslaw of cabbage, red onion, carrot and low fat mayo (100)

Chicken salad
Tuna salad
Stir fry with no noodles/rice just lots of veg
Soup.
Pretty much any meal with a large amount of low carb veg and a portion of leaneat/fish.

300 calories is easy... there are lots of Lean Cuisine choices with 300 calories or less.

For dinner, I often eat Chobani Non-Fat yogurt in various flavors for 140 calories and an EAS AdvantEdge Shake for 110 calories. These two combined will also pack about 30 grams of protein into one meal.