In need of food ideas please!!

avocados, almonds, pistachios, pinto beans, sweet potatoes, brown rice, tilapia, salmon, ground turkey, turkey bacon, egg whites, tuna fish, chicken breasts, 1% milkfat cottage cheese.....just to name a few stuff lol. Also just suggestion, ease up on the carbs for dinner time, unless you train after dinner. most of your carb intake should be taken in the morning and for lunch since it's when your most active.

- Fifteen different fruits and vegetables in the full rainbow of colours (red, green, yellow/ orange, blue/ purple). By all means get some canned (tomatoes, beans, lentils, no sugar pumpkin, red grapefruit), some frozen (berries, green veggies), some longer life (sweet potatoes, carrots, onions, cabbage), some dried (eg. cherries, prunes, apricots, pears, split peas, lentils). Then you can have nine servings a day without repeating the same thing every day
- reduced fat dairy (eg. plain Greek yoghurt, low fat soft cheese, half fat hard cheese) also parmesan or grana padano
- oily fish, canned or fresh (eg. sardines/ pilchards, salmon, trout, herring, mackerel)
- whole fresh chicken or frozen portions - take the skin off to lose the fat, flavour and batch cook this yourself
- nuts or seeds of your choice/ peanut butter
- old fashioned, jumbo or steel cut oats for breakfast and homemade flapjacks/ cereal bars/ healthy cookies
- garlic, chillis, ginger, no added sugar tomato paste, reduced salt stock powder or cubes, Lo Salt, block creamed coconut, Thai/ Chinese/ Indian dried spice blend, whichever you prefer. I get jar chilli in vinegar and frozen garlic because I am lazy!
- as little as possible that has ingredients, especially sugar, white/ refined carbs or processed wheat.

I just made Bolognese meat sauce with very little salt but loads of flavour - the rich taste came from red wine, Marigold reduced salt stock powder, Meridian no added salt yeast extract, long cooking time then reduce the liquid to nothing. The yeast extract is actually rich in protein and was the new addition to my recipe. Not sure if you can get something similar.

Don't forget a variety of canned beans. They're a quick source of fiber and protein and you don't even have to cook them! Just rinse in a colander to get rid of all the salty liquid and add to salads, soups, pasta and grain dishes. I buy pintos, navy beans, blackeyed peas, kidney beans, cannelini, black beans and chickpeas. Of course you can also make hummus with the chickpeas and burritos with the black beans.

metric ****ton of vegetables
tiny bit of fruit
as much meat as you can carry
low-fat dairy products
egg whites


and a zillion flavours and spices because meat & veg can get old quick.

Ugh! You would advocate the use of dairy products, but limit the fruit intake!?!?!?!?

This is the advice that will guarantee you get sick. NEVER limit your intake of fruits or vegetables!

If all you care about is weight loss, and don't mind increasing your chances of getting sick, than this might work in the short term, but this is dangerous advice, healthwise.

I agree with all of the posters. Those are excellent choices/selections.

My list always includes as many fresh veggies as possible: lettuce, spinach, radishes, celery, mushrooms, squash, onions (I hate them. I but them anyway to flavor stuff.) and NO SODIUM added frozen veggies like spinach, broccoli, okra, peas, etc. I also buy the cheap brand of no sodium added cooked tomatoes. I used those in my food processor to make my own spaghetti sauce, enchilada sauce, etc.

Also, avocados, almonds and snack bars that fit into my diet. Then I always get chicken, turkey, ground turkey, and other meats.