Help-Seeking 450 calorie dinner

Saute chicken breast with some veggies and put it on a baked potato.

Why not a veggie and chicken stuffed baked potato? Not sure of the exact calorie count because it depends on what and how much you cook. You can even eat half of the potato with veggies and chicken and add a side salad.

Or you can just stuff the chicken with chopped veggies and add a little cheese.

Hi, Mama Mia: I hear ya about the same old thing. I adore grilling a piece of chicken or salmon, adding that to a salad of raw baby spinach, and roasted vegetables with a tablespoon or a little more of homemade vinaigrette. Sometimes I add a clementine in segments. But sometimes I just want a pizza ... I turn to Amy's Kitchen frozen foods a lot. Their single serve margherita pizza is about 400 calories. The dinners seem to range between 400 and 440. Some Mexican bowls are a little less. Maybe it depends on whether they have cheese or not. But when I really want to be clear about calorie consumption, and I want something different than my grilled meats, veggies and salads or omelets, I turn to that for now. Also, her quarter-pound veggie burger with a Whole Foods Wheat bun is filling and 400 calories (use mustard and dill slices or jalapeno slices to jazz it up). Great job on the weight loss! Hope this helps.

These things aren't listed in your current kitchen stock but if you're looking for some new ideas, here are a few I like:

Chili dogs:
2 Hebrew National 97% Fat Free (these are the best of the low fat/fat free hot dogs)
1 cup (or half can) of 99% Fat Free Vegetarian Chili
2 Pieces of Sara Lee 45 Calorie Wheat or Multi-Grain Bread....toasted
1/4 Cup of Shredded Low Fat Cheese....or a small blob of fat free sour cream.

440 calories and it doesn't taste like diet food AT ALL!

Pizza:
Tortilla....bake on cookie sheet for a few minutes, flip over for another few minutes
Smear tomato sauce on crisp tortilla and sprinkle pizza seasoning, or oregano (I also like to add garlic salt)
1/4 cup low fat mozzarella
A few slices of turkey pepperoni or canadian bacon...or those new Jimmy Dean Sausage Crumbles.

(I like a thin crispy crust, but if the tortilla thing is something you can't get used too, and you have the calories & carbs available, you can use a flat bread, or pocketless pita. So good!)

Blue Cheese Wedge Salad:
Chop a head of Iceberg Lettuce into 4 pieces and use 1 quarter.
Drizzle with a low fat blue cheese dressing
Fry up a couple slices of turkey bacon, break up into little bits and spread over lettuce wedge
Add slices tomato

Ideas for ways to dress up a baked potato:
-Chili and cheese
-Creamed corn
-Black Beans, cheese, taco seasoning
-Green Giant frozen Broccoli w/ cream sauce (the cauliflower one is good too,and I don't even like cauliflower!)
-1/2 a can of Cream of "fill in blank" soup (low fat kind would be best) mixed up with frozen mixed veggies.

....now that I think about it, all of the above would probably be pretty good on top of a chicken breast too.

Chicken stir fry its good
Preheat a large skillet and add 1 tsp oil Saute 3 oz chicken breast. Add in a selection of your favorite veggies, stir frying long cooking onesfirst like carrots mushrooms broccoli and bell pepper.Stir in quick cooking veggies like bean sprouts and cabbage.Add 1/4 cup edamame beans (about 17 pods) and 3 teaspones low sodium soy sauce, and serve over 2/3 cooked brown rice.
45g Carbohydrate 30 g Protein 11g Fat 400 Calories

http://www.skinnytaste.com/

Another good low cal recipe site.