frozen foods

The only problem with frozen food is that it's typically high in sodium because salt makes things taste good.

Sodium can cause water retention and water retention causes scale fluctuations. As long as you're not prone to freaking out about the scale jumping up a pound or two, then enjoy a frozen meal as needed/wanted. If you do freak out over the scale, you'd be better off making yourself a lower sodium meal and portioning it out into single servings that you can freeze or put in the fridge to grab for lunch every day.

I strongly recommend learning to cook and prepping some pre-prepared meals that you can freeze for when you're too busy. Usually, pre-prepared meals, particularly anything marked "low fat," "low sodium," etc., are marketing gimmicks and taste like death warmed over.

I would think pre-freezing some breakfast sandwiches would be a good idea. I've never tried it myself but I might now.

I eat quite a bit of frozen fruit, vegetables, chicken breasts and fish. All of it is fine and since the vegetables and fruit are frozen while ripe, it is arguable that they are actually better than fresh as the fresh have been sitting and degrading much longer. That said, the difference is minimal, but the frozen is often cheaper. It's also more convenient to just grab something out of the freezer.

I'm also a big fan of canned tomatoes, clams, pasta sauces, olives, and artichokes, as well as jarred green peppers and roasted red peppers, as with all of this I can put together a pretty solid meal in about 30 minutes. Don't get me wrong, I love fresh vegetables, fruit and meats, and keep a pretty good supply available, but when you just don't feel like shopping or there's nothing else available on a busy day, it helps to have healthy options readily available in your pantry.

As for carbs, I eat plenty of them. I did stop drinking beer for a couple of months when I lost the majority of my weight, but I eat pasta (mostly regular white these days), breads (both white and whole grain), and some sweets, and also drink beer and whiskey. The key is portion control.

I really love those small pre-portioned froze dole fruit cups for yogurt. One thing to do if you are on a budget is to buy fruit and portion it out and freeze it. I also will make a big crockpot of soup and portion it out so that I can freeze it and grab and go later. There are many things that you can freeze, I am not sure how well freezing scrambled eggs would work though. cooking eggs is relatively quick. If I am in a rush I make some mashed avocado and turkey bacon breakfast sandwiches

I freeze cooked eggs all the time. They freeze fine, it's the warming them back up that you have to be careful. I find if I let them thaw first, then low and slow in the microwave, checking often. it's when you zap the crap out of them on reheat that they become rubbery.

good to know! I dont like eggs very much but I try to get them in LOL

Do I prefer fresh homemade food? Absolutely. Do I always have time to do that? No. Do I think that turning to premade or frozen foods on occasion is detrimental to my overall goals? Nope, I still eat fast food also. Yes, I know that the frozen meals have a TON of sodium in them, so yes I could go home and eat a turkey wrap etc...but my prepackaged turkey also has a TON of sodium in it, and I do not have time to cook a fresh turkey breast every week, yes I know I can spend all day Sunday prepping for the week...or I could go take my kids to the zoo, work in my yard, get in a long workout, visit with my parents, etc. Ok, off my soap box on that topic. Having said all that, i do very rarely eat frozen vegetables, i know that they are equally as good if not better for me than some fresh and/or canned vegetables, i jsut don't like them, I'd rather have fresh that are a week old with nutrients leaking out of them than eat a frozen one I don't like. Anyway having said that piece, i eat frozen meals from time to time, some weeks I may end up eating them three times in a week, when it was really cold out, that warm meal satisfied me and filled me up and made me warm, however I haven't had one in at least the last two weeks now, but there are about 10 in my freezer when I need them. I do not like any that have meat in them, I am very particular about my meat, beef, chicken, seafood, doesn't matter and even the best meals sometimes have sketchy meat IMO. I do enjoy the healthy choice steamers and the weight watchers smart ones, pretty much any of the vegetarian options are good in my opinion. You may need to do a little trial and error to determine your tastes, but I think frozen dinners have improved in quality, taste, and ingredients tenfold since my early college days of lean cuisine.....good luck

check out pinterest for make ahead breakfast ideas. and Skinnytaste.com recently had a veggie egg breakfast in a muffin cup idea. make a batch, and eat for a week! There's lots of great ideas out there, just a matter of what you like to eat :drinker:

More times than not... salt is used very little in frozen foods! The key to frozen foods (for the most part ) is that they are flash frozen to seal in the freshness and prevent spoilage. Canned foods are the ones to avoid because salt is needed to keep the foods from spoiling inside the can! If you have to eat canned veggies, try washing in plain water to rinse most of the salt residue away!! With frozen foods read the package for salt (sodium) content per serving, you'll find very little in most cases.