212 calorie dinner - great for vegetarians but also great for when you are sick of eating meat or if you've had a bit of a blow out day.
Egg Plant Pizza

1/2 eggplant - sliced into 2 1cm thin bases
1/4 cup sliced and sauted mushrooms
1 tomato
1 cup of spinach
40g Mozzarella

5 sautéed asparagus spears on the side

Grill eggplant on both sides first to precook then add all toppings and place back under the grill. You can obviously change the topping depending on your tastes. My husband even said he didn't miss the meat! That is a success on its own.

Oohhh good thread! I love pitango's organic pumpkin and ginger soup, it's under 100 calories so makes a great lunch or snack.

I also have a 'cheat' meal - it's not that flash nutritionally (17g carbs, 3g protein and 1g fat) but again less than 100cal for a whole bowl full - Continental Savoury Tomato & Onion Pasta. Most of their single serve packets are between 95 and 130 cal.

Edited to add Vita Wheat cracked pepper just 23cal a cracker - love these!

On my recent weekend away, I wanted a trumpet. They didn't have them, so I risked it and got a cornetto. So the cone wasn't crunchy BUT they're 180ish cals as opposed to 250+ for a trumpet. SURPRISE! I didn't miss out and felt good knowing it was under 200!

MTR Daily Favourite Ready to Eat Curries - pre made vegetarian curry in various flavours that are between 87 - 200 calories a serving.

Microwaveable or boil in the bag.

Found in the ethnic food aisle in Pak n Save.

Weight watchers peach slices in jelly tubs! You get 2 in a pack and there only 20cal and soo filling!
I usually have that and 2 rice cakes with PB as a treat(:

On my recent weekend away, I wanted a trumpet. They didn't have them, so I risked it and got a cornetto. So the cone wasn't crunchy BUT they're 180ish cals as opposed to 250+ for a trumpet. SURPRISE! I didn't miss out and felt good knowing it was under 200!

I take it all back. They were entered in the database wrong. They're about 220ish cals.

You can get Emma brand trumpet type cones in mocha/choc/vanilla/strawberry/caramel (at woolworths and sometimes pac n save) and they are less than 150 each!!!

I don't know if its a new product from Arnotts but I've recently discovered Arnotts Fun Sticks. They come in multi-packs of 10 smaller packs and are 85 Cal per small pack. Each pack has about 8 little wafer sticks in them. A really yummy, crunchy sweet treat. They come in vanilla & chocolate flavours.

Recently at New World I have found Laughing Cow Lite Cream Cheese squares. Each has 54 calories and can easily be spread over several crackers.. Super yummy and I can't tell the difference between these and other cream cheeses!

Just found in Countdown:

Avalanche Sugar Free Drinking Chocolate mix - with the other tea/coffee/hot chocolate mixes.

8 calories per serve and NO sugar - beats the pants off all other drinking chocolates which are at least 50-60cal with 5-10g sugar.



http://www.avalanchecoffee.co.nz/TheMenuSugarFree/tabid/102/Default.aspx

I was in countdown this weekend ... wish I'd seen that, thanks for the heads up

Another one, not necessarily a food find but still helps is to use the fine grater to grate cheese, rather than the regular one or slicing it. You'd be surprised how much further 25g of finely grated cheese goes than regular grated, and how much further both go than a slice!

And on the topic of cheese, use parmesan for stuff like baking and cheese sauce - its no lower in fat than other cheddars, but you use a lot less of it for the same taste : )

Good tip on the grating!