Is eating chicken and broccoli for every meal dangerous?

You need a balanced and varied diet. There's no way you're going to get everything you need from only two basic ingredients. Chicken and broccoli are great, but if you want to get all your nutrients you need to add a lot to that. Plus, you're going to get bored! So very, very bored.

If you aren't a confident cook, or lack time, salad and stir-fry can be thrown together in minutes. You can add nuts and grains, and enough different veg to turn your plate into a rainbow. You can still use up your chicken and broccoli in them.

ethionupe wrote: »

Amateur here but Ive meal prepped chicken and broccoli for an entire week, 2 meals a day. Is it unhealthy to keep this up?

Do you mean you eat chicken and broccoli and nothing else? - or you eat, say, 6 meals
/snacks a day and 2 of them are chicken and broccoli and the others are different things.

Former not a good idea - latter could be ok if you really like chicken and broccoli and the other meals/snacks are a variety of foods.

My general advice though - don't try drastic extreme diets - just aim to eat the number of net calories MFP gives you and aim for a variety of nutritious foods (and some not so nutritious ones if you want to)
Thats really all there is to it.

throw in other veggies, salad, fruit, nuts , whole grains and fats like avocado,,and fish

For 2 weeks it is no real problem if you can suffer through the monotony of it. Long term it lacks enough variety to be nutritionally complete.

A chicken and broccoli meal is notorious for being a diet meal. Most diets fail. That is not to say that having this meal as a cornerstone of you plan means you will fail but it would cause me to fail.

Sounds like fun.

Applebee’s has grilled chicken on their menu that I always order when I go there with side of broccoli. Could I eat it twice a day, no. My husband and daughter can eat the same meal all week, but I need variety.
How are you preparing your chicken and broccoli and what else are you eating during the day? Depending on what else you are eating during the day, I think it’s fine as long as you aren’t bored with eating it twice a day

Your other meal or meals would need to fill you with the vitamins and nutrients chicken and broccoli lack

So first, re: the idea that it's boring to repeat the meal over and over?

The thing I'd say here is that it is immaterial whether OTHERS would find it boring (and I notice that you never said you were having the exact same MEAL of broccoli and chicken every day, just the same two ingredients). The question is if YOU would find it boring. Do you like to mix it up a lot with your foods, or are you perfectly content with repetition, or do you even prefer that?

Some folks in my family are perfectly fine having the exact same meal plan (not just one meal, but for the entire day) pretty much every single day of the year with a few breaks for holidays. Or the exact same weekly meal plan every week of the year. And they are content with that, because they pick foods they like, that are easy to make, and then they don't have to waste the time or energy making lots of different foods. They are MORE successful with their eating habits when they keep it simplified and repetitive, not less.

So again, I'd just ask yourself if YOU would find repetition boring. If you would, then having the same thing every day is, as others have said, problematic for your success.

If you like repetition, sounds like a fine idea.

As long as you are getting enough nutrients during the day with the chicken, broccoli, and other foods, then it shouldn't be an issue in terms of nutrition, either, I wouldn't think, nor safety. Last I heard, chicken and broccoli aren't like rice or tuna, that have contamination issues so you want to have limits during the week (arsenic for rice, mercury for tuna, I believe), so that shouldn't cause trouble. :-)