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What are you eating?

Take a look at my diary, but typically I would have:

Breakfast - porridge with teaspoon of honey, or apple juice or cinnamon
OR 2 scrambled eggs cooked without butter or milk, on brown toast
OR Toast and marmite x 2
OR 2 pieces of fruit, chopped with yoghurt

Lunch - Sushi
OR Light salad with chicken, crayfish or tuna
OR Fruit
OR Noodles

Dinner - whatever I fancy up to my calorie limit

Hope this helps!!

Periodically I mix up a big batch of whole grain waffles.
http://allrecipes.com/recipe/whole-grain-waffles/
The batter keeps well in the fridge. Just give it a good stir before cooking.
It takes a while to mix up, but a double batch makes a lot of breakfasts and/or snacks for me & my 3 kids. I eat mine topped with frozen berries defrosted in the microwave with a spoon of marscapone stirred in or a dollop of plain nonfat Greek yogurt.

I eat 1200 calories a day. I started Jan 9th and have lost 21 lbs. I crave sweets but try not to eat them often. But on the weekends, I allow myself a cheat day to satisfy those sweet craving and a lot of times my cheat day ends up turning into an entire weekend of cheating.

I've heard a lot about spaghetti squash but I really dont know what exatly it is (I mean I'm sure I've seen it in the store before) but I wouldnt have a clue what to do with it. lol

Stab it a few times and microwave until it starts to soften. Cut in half and remove the seeds. Now take a fork and shred out the 'spaghetti' (you'll see what I mean). You can use it in place of spaghetti in any dish (hot or cold).

Breakfast: Usually oatmeal and a piece of fruit

Lunch: Either tuna sandwich or ham sandwich or salad

Dinner: Grilled chicken with vegetables or salad or sometimes Subway sandwich

Which these are all foods I love but I feel like I am eating too much of them.

You have to learn how to change it up. For me, stockpiling a bunch of recipes isn't goign to work because I will have that much bigger of a grocery list, and in turn, bigger grocery bill. Work with what you have, but a few things to change it up, pretty soon you will be keeping the new things on hand along with your staples until the new things also become staples and you won't be running out to load up on all new things every time you want a new recipe.

Here's what I did... I started by eating the same things, but change up what I put on, in and around them.

Oatmeal and a piece of fruit, GREAT! Now, buy some blueberries or raspberries or pomegranate seeds and throw them in the oatmel! Before you know it... "OH WAIT, you know what else I could throw a 1/4 cup of pomegranate seeds into? Some cereal!" and you will keep getting new ideas from there! I bought the pom seeds for oatmel, then I threw some in my Kashi cereal. Sometimes I'll use them in fruit salad. Now they are a staple.

I used to snack on fresh green beans and god BORED. I got some salsa to throw on them and it became a fun snack! (most salsas are about 10 cal per 2 tbsp).

I got tired of plain eggs and egg beaters. I don't always want to add cheese, so I bought some of the garden gourmet herbs (in the produce area, near the bagged salad and bagged veggies). They come in tubes....

http://www.gourmetgarden.com/us/product/view/Cilantro

I threw some of the cilantro in with some scrambles egg whites and egg beaters along with some fresh mushrooms and WHAM, garden omelette! Then the cilantro made me miss having tacos, so I bought Mission Yellow Corn Thin Tortillas (80 calories for 2 taco sized tortillas! - plus corn tortillas are less cals and less carbs than flour, obviously) and did the eggs, cilantro and mushrooms on 2 corn tortillas and had a whole dinner for well under 200 calories.

THEN, the yellow corn tortillas (which I bought because they were thin and had the least cals) made me realize that my favorite is white corn tortillas, so I bought the white corn tortillas to keep at work and brought along some veggies, like baby spinach, arugala, cucumber slices and red bell pepper slices (with some horseradish mustard for flavor) for veggie wraps.

Then I decided I whould have more protien in there so I started adding deli meat like ham or turkey, for a taco/sanwich wrap! I can have two of these sanwich wraps full of goodies for lunch and only be around 250 cals.

Tonight, I plan to take that Gourmet Garden Cilantro and try it in tuna salad (in place of the relish).

I also discovered Silk Almond Vanilla, which has more calcium and less calories than milk (I don't like milk, I needed an alternative source of calcium) and now I use that in cereal. Only 90 calories in 8 oz.

There are so many ways to change things out just by trying a couple new things at a time, then seeing what else you have that you like to eat that might work with some of the new things. I have turned it into a game, of sorts.

I recently tried chobani greek yogurt finally and guess what - something else I can put the pom seeds into!

crock pot meals. there are so many and you can just throw them in. i actually used to assemble them raw in a freezer bag and freeze them. then, the night before, i'd thaw them in the fridge and just dump the bag in the crock pot, set the timer, and head to work. if you're on pinterest there are TON of freezer meals.

Also buy few cooking appliances such as slow cooker, indoor grill, pressure cooker and a blender. You can really use the slow cooker for many different kind of foods from all over the world. They have different marinates for the slow cooker, picture this , drop the meat,veges and the marinate.Turn it on slow and go to work , come back and you have fresh meal ready. It also helps in clean eating. I have personaly lost around 49 pounds within a year ! Just by eating different kind of foods, tasting different kind of spices and flovors all over the world.