What do you eat for lunch/dinner?!?

I'm transitioning to Shakeology for dinner. You want to try and keep your calories lower in the evening, and you also want to limit carbs. With me teaching Boot Camp and other classes at night this is the best option for me. I wish I had it in college! There were many late night runs to Taco Bell just for lack of anything better.

I'm in college too. We eat and pack sandwhiches which can be all sorts of varities from tuna sandwhiches, meat/cheese, and peanut butter. You can spice it up with different condiments and using different meats/cheeses. Or you can try pita bread and using different things for that.

For dinner frozen veggies are amazing if you have a freezer to put them in. Especially ones that you can microwave. I always side dish it with different kinds of fish, chicken, or super lean beef. Or you can do turkey subsitutes for meatballs/salami/pepperoni and make your own pizzas, spaghettis or other pastas. Potatoes are amazing too since you can do basically anything with them and they are cheap. Make sure you have a well rounded supply of spices and extra virgin olive oil.

Hope this helps a bit.

Column A
Chicken breast
Pork Chop
Fish

Column B
Sweet potato
Potato
Brown Rice

Column C
Spinach
Brocolli
Kale
Salad

Pick one from each column

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I would just add lean beef to Column A and nearly every kind of veggie or veggie combo to Column C and remember to make your Column B portion slightly smaller than what you think you "need" because most of the time we tend to out-do ourselves with the starches...which is why people think they are bad, even though if you have them in the correct portions, they are quite healthy and aid in fat loss. :flowerforyou:

Ideas:

one serving plain non fat greek yogurt (lots of protein)
1/3 cup high fiber cereal
1/2 cup blueberries
1/2 cup strawberries (prep fruit in advance so you can just grab it)
This is breakfasty but it works for me for lunch or dinner

La Tortilla Factory tortilla, sandwich thin, or flat out wrap
slice of reduced fat cheese
2 oz. lunch meat or soy lunch meat (like tofurky)
spinach

Thomas bagel thin (110 cal) with 1 tbs natural almond butter and 1 tbs all fruit jam. sprinkle on some wheat germ, too

Sandwich thin with veggie burger patty, whole grain mustard, lettuce, and tomato slices

I tend to eat smaller meals throughout the day, and it helps me to have a roster of food options to choose from. A meal doesn't have to be a meal like we typically think of one. You can do string cheese, apple and nut butter, celery and nut butter with raisins (ants on a log), veggie burgers, Morningstar or similar brand soy products, carrots with hummus, steamed broccoli and spinach with lemon pepper, cottage cheese with seasoned salt, slice of turkey and slice of cheese wrapped around a pretzel rod, high fiber cereal with unsweetened almond milk (40 cals a cup!) and fruit, sweet potato with cinnamon, baked sweet potato or white potato fries. Bake an apple with cinnamon and splenda. Cut a grapefruit in half and broil, cut side up, with cinnamon and a bit of brown sugar. Buy tubs or bags of prewashed spinach and lettuce and throw it in wherever you can. Veggie dogs. Smoothie with almond milk, frozen berries, and silken tofu (no cholesterol, lots of protein)

HTH! Thx