meal planning help!
peanut613
Posts: 438 Member
I've been inconsistent with my diet since I started logging almost 2 months ago. Most of the food I eat is the same as before, but in smaller portions. I need to change up my diet for the healthier, but I need help!
Here's a few examples of what we eat now.
Breakfast:
-banana
-nonfat yogurt with granola
-toast and jam
(I skip breakfast often and have just my coffee, which I know is a huge no-no!)
Lunch:
-turkey and cheddar on whole wheat
-can of light soup
-spinach salad
-leftovers from last night's dinner
Dinner:
-pan cooked (no oil) or baked chicken breast or pork chop (with marinade or sauce, ie bbq)
-frozen veg like corn, peas, green beans
-instant mashed potatoes, minute brown rice
-taco "bowls" (brown rice, black beans, salsa, sometimes with beef)
Snacks/Dessert:
-granola bars
-popsicles (like outshine fruit bars)
-fiber one brownie
-hard candies
As you see, some of my diet is on the right track while other parts still need a lot of work. I need ideas for meals and snacks that are relatively easy to make (I mean, nobody has 3 hours to spend prepping dinner!) They need to be tasty enough to please a 5 year old and can work with a tighter budget. These shouldn't be too hard to work around, but I'm in a rut and could use some help!
Here's a few examples of what we eat now.
Breakfast:
-banana
-nonfat yogurt with granola
-toast and jam
(I skip breakfast often and have just my coffee, which I know is a huge no-no!)
Lunch:
-turkey and cheddar on whole wheat
-can of light soup
-spinach salad
-leftovers from last night's dinner
Dinner:
-pan cooked (no oil) or baked chicken breast or pork chop (with marinade or sauce, ie bbq)
-frozen veg like corn, peas, green beans
-instant mashed potatoes, minute brown rice
-taco "bowls" (brown rice, black beans, salsa, sometimes with beef)
Snacks/Dessert:
-granola bars
-popsicles (like outshine fruit bars)
-fiber one brownie
-hard candies
As you see, some of my diet is on the right track while other parts still need a lot of work. I need ideas for meals and snacks that are relatively easy to make (I mean, nobody has 3 hours to spend prepping dinner!) They need to be tasty enough to please a 5 year old and can work with a tighter budget. These shouldn't be too hard to work around, but I'm in a rut and could use some help!
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Try skinnytaste.com and cleaneatingmag.com for some healthy recipes to find some new ideas for you and your family.
The fiber one brownies are tastier that I thought they would be!0 -
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I have tried all the meal planning ideas that I could find, for years and never had any luck sticking with anything, until just recently, when I started buying the pre-made salads at Trader Joe's and eating those. But I do the intermittant fasting too, which is to eat within an 8-hour time frame and that, combined with the salads is working so great. No exercise and i'm still losing. It's more satisfying to me, to eat two large meals and a snack, then split it all up into tiny, unfilling portions throughout the day - way less thought and effort too. So, salads for lunch then snack 4 hours later, like a banana or apple with peanut butter (I mix real peanut butter w/ the powdered kind to cut down on calories & fat), then 4 hours after that, either chicken, beef, or fish and a veggie, or lately, I've been into the spiralizer salads, where I'll spiralize a zucchini and mix in some cherry tomatoes, olive oil, red wine vinegar, and goat cheese. Or another dinner idea I do is a high fiber tortilla with Amy's organic refried beans, 1/4 an avocado, some onion, and 1 oz of cheese. I forgot to add also, that for lunch, I also eat some chia pudding, which is just 2 TB of chia seeds, mixed with 1/2 cup coconut/almond milk, 1 TB organic maple syrup (tons of health benefits in organic maple syrup), and some vanilla. For that, you do have to let it sit overnight though. That's my sugar for the day.0
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It is o.k. to skip the first meal of the day. A lot of folks here are doing that because 1) we do not like eating in the morning, and 2) it helps save calories for foods later in the day.
Instead of eating the instant mashed potatoes and minute rice, cook enough for a few days and put the rest in the refrigerator. Brown rice for example will last five days in the fridge and longer in the freezer.
You could try grilling / roasting vegetables. If you have something like a panini press or foreman grill, that would work too.
http://www.bhg.com/recipes/how-to/cooking-basics/how-to-roast-vegetables/
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