Alternatives to Grilled Chicken

I'm into batch cooking at the moment - curries, chilli's, lasagne, fish with veggies, soups, and the odd piece of chicken 😁
Almost anything can be batch cooked, portioned out / frozen and taken to work if you have somewhere to heat it up.

Any lean meat is an alternative to chicken unless you are worried about some other aspect of those foods beyond cals. I don't eat grilled chicken much at all (if you mean the skinless, boneless breasts). I very often eat:

fish (many different kinds)
shrimp
various lean cuts of pork
lamb
lean cuts of beef
a dinner revolving around eggs as the main protein
a dinner revolving around beans/lentils as the main protein
chicken thighs
roasted chicken breast with its bones and skin

I also do occasionally eat boneless, skinless chicken in some things, quite often stews or other one-pot meals (like a tagine), and I might make a bunch of it in the instant pot and shred it and use it on salads or in soups or pastas or whatnot (it's easy to turn this into low cal buffalo chicken too, if that is appealing).

Turkey is also a good alternative for chicken if you like it.

Boneless Pork Chops, the other White Meat!

Grilled salmon! Tilapia. 97% lean ground beef. Find seasonings you really like for the chicken. We buy shredded, cooked chicken from Costco and add a little Tikka Masala sauce or Korean Bulgogi sauce and then have it with rice. Adding different flavors to chicken helps a lot to cut down on the monotony of it. And you should consider fish 3 times a week for health.

I’m lucky. Grilled chicken and boneless skinless never get old for me.

Pork loin is cheap and low cal. I buy pork loin and slice it into “steaks” before freezing. I top it with pepper or vidalia onion jelly, Thai peanut sauce, or a mix of Dijon/orange marmalade and grill it in the air fryer. It’s delicious.

Or throw it in a crockpot with some liquid smoke and a tablespoon of BBQ sauce- enough to scent it. You can add more bbq sauce after shredding. I cook it with Stubbs, but serve it with calorie free Walden Farms bbq sauce.

There’s a cut of steak called tip steak that’s on my 149 calories/4 ounces. I cook a pound and a half of tip steak every Sunday. We each get 8 ounces and the other eight is sliced up for salads later in the week. I also dice it very fine, pan fry it with a wee bit of margarine and garlic salt, tip with a slice of Swiss to melt, and put it in a crusty roll for a delicious sandwich.

Chicken in the crockpot with the seasoning and salsa packet from a taco kit is the bomb shredded and out into taco shells. There’s no easier dinner than that!

Eating the same thing daily is a quick way to burn yourself out. If you'd like some other foods that are high in protein, try red lentil noodles and making a pasta. I also love to have sushi or tuna. Salads can be a good choice, I just like to have a protein bar with it or add hard boiled eggs.

Hopefully this helps, I just hope you aren't completely stuck on eating chicken daily.

I prefer chicken thighs or quarters, but when I buy a whole chicken, the breast meat usually ends up in fajitas, tacos, atop salads, stir-fry, soup, curries, marinaded, flattened and pin-wheeled with spinach, ricotta & mushrooms or pan browned with broth, onions, garlic and mushrooms. I can't remember the last time I had plain ol' grilled chicken.