Getting bored with food....

I eat the same thing for about two weeks then change too. Right now my salads are avocado, shrimp, tomato, black beans, lettuce, and a laughing cow cheese (for the low calories). I use chalula chipotle sauce as dressing. Takes me about 4 minutes to prep! The only cutting is the tomato and I buy a bag of mixed greens.

Breakfast or lunch ideas:
Greek Yoghurt/over night oats/chia seed pudding etc. with nuts and berries
protein shake (hey, sometimes you're just loking to get some calories)
Barley in salad is awesome.

emilybeaver wrote: »

I was losing weight and doing well when I was eating my egg sandwich for breakfast and salads for lunch...but I'm bored of them after only doing that for 2 weeks....I'm in a rut now and I've been eating sugary cereal with milk for breakfast and turkey sandwich for lunch. The scale is showing it. Plus all the other crap I've been eating. Does anyone have any easy I mean super easy things to make for breakfast (I do breakfast at work) and fun things to spice up my salads?

Cereal with milk and turkey sandwiches are fine.
Cut down on the other foods in your day that are putting you over your calories.

I have an open diary if you want to take a peek at the foods I eat....

I have to mix my foods up too. Although I did eat overnight oatmeal every day this week. I also like greek yogurt with fruit or an egg sandwich. Or I grate a squash into a bowl and mix it with 1/2 cup milk and 6 eggs and 1/4 cup shredded cheese. I bake this for about 20 minutes at 350 in muffin tins (makes about 10). My kids love this and you can make a big batch and they keep in the fridge for like 5 days.

oh as my breakfast treat, I make a half pb&j, using all fruit jelly, trying a variety of different breads from whole foods. having my carbs early instead of evening. oh and the salad kits I get are the kale, broccoli, Asian. not the iceberg ones.

I am alert to signs of boredom because those are the times when I've fallen off the wagon. When I get bored, I change it up. Last fall I had an abundance of lettuce from my community garden, so it was salad daily. When I switched back to store-bought greens, it just wasn't the same and I found all sorts of reasons to toss the salad rather than eat it. So I had a good think and gave myself a "new vegetable a day" challenge for a week. I blogged the results. Worked for me.

So through this winter I stuck with winter-hardy vegetables, maybe a little more substantial, like sweet potatoes, carrots, cabbage, that sort of thing. I experimented with different cooking techniques. Really changed it up.

Now it's spring and I'm in the mood for mason jar salads again.

For breakfast, try stuff with greek yogurt. Maybe a smoothie now and again. Hot cereals. Chia puddings.

For lunch, how about leftovers from the night before? Or a wrap?

I mix eggs with veggies and lean protein into muffin tins and bake those. Great to bring to work and quickly reheated.

Mini whole wheat bagel (or half a big one)with lox, capers, red onion and light cream cheese. Hardboiled eggs with a squirt of sriracha and a light English muffin with a little butter. Multi grain toaster waffles with fruit spread. Sauteed spinach and mushrooms topped with a fried egg or inside an omelette.

Here's what I've been doing ...

I go to the grocery store, fresh fruit and veg markets, Asian markets etc. ... and I browse. I look at all the options. I check the calorie content of anything packaged. And then I try stuff.

Right now, I'm eating a single serve packet of Uncle Ben's brown rice, a package of Steam Fresh veg and a small tin of chicken in springwater.

Yesterday I had La Zuppa's pumpkin soup with chow mein noodles and the package of Steam Fresh veg.

The day before I had something similar to what I'm having today only with quinoa and brown rice.

Monday I had La Zuppa's red lentil soup ...

Almost always some sort of Steam Fresh Veg, but sometimes I do cous cous, other times quinoa, sometimes brown rice. Sometimes I have the chicken, sometimes I don't. And those La Zuppa soups are great ... low cal and so filling.

Occasionally I'll have chicken, cucumber and low-fat cheese sandwiches for a day or two.

But all these ideas I found by browsing the aisles of stores and markets.

Eat a less sugary cereal and add some fresh fruit and nuts. Instead of sandwiches, try low cal wraps with pickles, cucumbers tomatoes lettuce and avocado and whatever other veggies you like. You can add some turkey or lean ham if you like. Make egg salad. Make tuna salad. Make soups. Make any meal and portion leftovers for lunches. And sure have some salads.

Eating should not need to be be boring for weight loss. If you are gaining weight it is not because of what you are eating, it is because of how much you are eating. Get more conscientious about your weighing and logging.

For breakfast:

2 eggs daily, but I will mix it up with either pico de gallo or diced up ham. Every so often, I'll crumble turkey bacon into the eggs and scramble. For my treat, I'll go to Panera Bread and order their egg white and cheese on ciabatta. 350 cals or something like that.