Low Cal/low fat and satisfying ideas for meals/snacks

sewcat64
sewcat64 Posts: 13
in Food and Nutrition
I am looking for some ideas for low calorie/low fat snacks and meals that are tasty and satisfying. I joined awhile ago but I recently just got started! Any sugguestions?

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  • skinnyme47
    skinnyme47 Posts: 802 Member
    I take grapes and freeze them. They are a nice crunchy low calorie snack. :smile:
  • kdiamond
    kdiamond Posts: 3,329 Member
    Fruits, like berries, peaches, and plums are low calorie and filling. I like Kavli garlic toast w/ Laughing Cow cheese spread on it. You can munch on dry cereal like Kashi types. I eat string cheese, almonds, cottage cheese, greek yogurt...all are great for you, you just need to make sure you weigh everything and not just grab a huge handful of almonds. I like to weigh it out ahead of time and bag it up in little snack bags for easy grabbing.
  • debyjo1
    debyjo1 Posts: 6
    Fresh fruits and veggies are a good source of fiber as a snack but sometimes it just doesn't work. I like the Fiber one chocolate chewy bars if I am in the need of something sweet. 100 calories, 3 grams of fat, and 5 grams of fiber. The Strawberry BP&J chewy are good too. 110 cal, 3.5 grams fat, and 5 grams of fiber. You want to try and reach a minimun of 25 grams of fiber and a max of 25 grams of fat and drink a min of 64 oz of water. I lost 19.5 lbs in 6 weeks following that rule. Low sodium beef jerky or turkey jerkey. 3 Hard boiled egg whites and 1 whole egg and a pear. 5 grams of fat and it holds me for awile. Celery with the Laughing cow low fat cheese spread wedges. fat free Yogart. If you are feeling like some type of chip: Quakes rice snacks. Mini rice cakes. There are different flavors to choose from fat contents are different one from another. I hope these ideas help. :)
  • sewcat64
    sewcat64 Posts: 13
    Those are some great ideas above! Thank you ladies.

    Does anyone have a few ideas for dinners? I have a hungry husband that also needs to slim down and 1 skinny teen at home to cook for, suggestions on filling meals?

    My goal is to get everyone in the house eating healthy with tasty meals.
  • shelbyfrootcake
    shelbyfrootcake Posts: 965 Member
    Veg loaded frittata.

    Faux pizza (made with a wholemeal tortilla instead of pizza base and with low fat cheese)

    Grilled meat with root veg mash.
  • ademiter
    ademiter Posts: 176 Member
    1. Definitely hard boiled eggs (eggwhites)...
    2. Get some romaine lettuce hearts, dijion mustard and deli turkey - make a little snack sandwich! It's YUMMY!!!! I do this for lunch quite a bit along with a cheese stick and some Special K cracker chips.
    3. Almonds! I like the 100 calorie packs of the Coco Almonds! They are good and satisfy my sweet tooth for chocolate!
    4. Grapes!
    5. Apple and peanut butter! Yummy!
    6. If you like buffalo chicken, get a can of the 98% fat free white meat chicken and mix it with a little of the 1/3 less fat cream cheese, a little bit of shredded cheddar (low fat), Franks Red Hot Buffalo Sauce, and low fat Ranch ( I use the Bolthouse yogurt ranch dressing because it only has like 45 cal a serving). I also use the romaine lettuce leaves to put this in and create a little sandwich action! :)
    7. Check out www.skinnytaste.com. They have phenomenal recipes and GREAT ideas! :)

    Happy eating!
  • ademiter
    ademiter Posts: 176 Member
    1. Definitely hard boiled eggs (eggwhites)...
    2. Get some romaine lettuce hearts, dijion mustard and deli turkey - make a little snack sandwich! It's YUMMY!!!! I do this for lunch quite a bit along with a cheese stick and some Special K cracker chips.
    3. Almonds! I like the 100 calorie packs of the Coco Almonds! They are good and satisfy my sweet tooth for chocolate!
    4. Grapes!
    5. Apple and peanut butter! Yummy!
    6. If you like buffalo chicken, get a can of the 98% fat free white meat chicken and mix it with a little of the 1/3 less fat cream cheese, a little bit of shredded cheddar (low fat), Franks Red Hot Buffalo Sauce, and low fat Ranch ( I use the Bolthouse yogurt ranch dressing because it only has like 45 cal a serving). I also use the romaine lettuce leaves to put this in and create a little sandwich action! :)
    7. Check out www.skinnytaste.com. They have phenomenal recipes and GREAT ideas! :)

    Happy eating!
  • iuew
    iuew Posts: 624 Member
    two that i have been enjoying recently :

    breakfast :

    yoplait 100 calorie Greek yogust, 100 cals
    Quaker brown sugar oatmeal, 160 cals
    total : 260 cals

    lunch :
    2 Hebrew national 97% fat free hot dogs, 80 cals
    2 Nature's own white wheat buns, 200 cals
    1 serving pretzels, 110 cals
    total : 390 cals
  • mcrowe1016
    mcrowe1016 Posts: 647 Member
    Oatmeal is one of the most filling foods I have ever eaten. It is only 150 calories per serving and I load mine with 5 servings (20g:75 calories) of brown sugar so it tastes like a sweet treat. (225 calories total)

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