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What does your daily menu look like?

MaryinBflo
MaryinBflo Posts: 437 Member
edited September 2024 in Food and Nutrition
I am just looking for some new ideas. Especially stuff to take to work for lunch!

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  • I usually have a potein shake and fruit for breakfast and lunch, since my job crazy the shakes and fruit are quick and easy. Dinner I have 4-6 oz of some kind of meat, lots of veggies.
  • cpafford79
    cpafford79 Posts: 88
    I pack both breakfast and lunch for work everyday! Here's a typical day for me

    Breakfast - 1 Multigrain English Muffin with 1 slice American Cheese (put it into the microwave for 15 seconds to melt the cheese and it tastes just like a cheese biscut) Yum!

    Lunch - Weight Watchers Smart Ones Meal
    1/2 cup grapes (halved) and 2 large Strawberries cut into pieces mixed 1 cup Fat Free Dannon Light & Fit Vanilla Yogurt

    Dinner - Varies each night because I have 3 small children. I typically incorporate some form of lean meat, and lots of veggies!! I also save all of my exercise calories for my dinner meal since it is so hard for me to plan ahead for this!!

    Snack - 2 Fat Free unsalted rice cakes w/2 tbsp. reduced fat peanut butter (I keep this in my desk drawer so that I am not tempted to visit the snack machine). On days that I have a sweet craving, I add a few raisins to each one and it gives it that extra "sweet" kick that I need.

    Hope this helps!
    :smile:
  • RedHotRunner
    RedHotRunner Posts: 850 Member
    I pack my breakfast and lunch too, plus snacks.

    Breakfast is almost always low-sugar oatmeal w/coffee.
    Fruit for snack
    Either a lean cuisine type meal or a salad w/grilled chicken for lunch
    Yogurt or fruit for snack
    Another snack when i get home (triscuits and laughing cow or something like that)
    Dinner is always a protein, starch and veggie
  • Ileanak
    Ileanak Posts: 343 Member
    early morning
    coffee routine with fiber = 88 cals
    Breakfast
    Protein powder with fiber = 117 cals
    Snack
    1/4 c pumpkin seeds = 160 cal
    Lunch
    salad with leftover flank steak (1 oz) = 180 cals
    Snack
    1/2 Fiber One Peanut & Oats bar + protein shake = 195 cals
    Dinner
    salad with chicken breast (100g) = 242

    cals are low today (982)
    Protein (106g) 43%
    Carb (74g) 30%
    Fat (30g) 27%

    Fiber (23g)
  • OliveBranch
    OliveBranch Posts: 104
    Typical day for me:
    Breakfast:
    1 cup Kashi Cereal (Honey Toasted Oats or Blueberry Clusters) with raw almonds and cinnamon and coffee
    or
    3/4 cup Quaker Oatmeal with strawberries, blueberries, and bananas.

    Lunch:
    Flatout Wrap with Flax Seed, roasted red pepper hummus, black pepper, cucumber, and organic turkey breast
    Berry Fruit Salad
    or
    Veggie Chips

    Dinner:
    Grilled chicken breast with bar b que sauce and a veggie kabob with red onion, cherry tomato, and zucchni, drizzled with a little EV Olive Oil (and a glass of white wine):wink:
    Dessert:
    Tofuti Cutie ice cream sandwich
    or
    Dannon Light N' Fit yogurt.
    Delicious!

    Hope you get some new ideas!
    -OB:flowerforyou:
  • MacMadame
    MacMadame Posts: 1,893 Member
    I have a protein shake for breakfast any morning I don't go to the gym before 9 am. Sometimes I put fruit in it.

    For lunch, usually leftovers from other dinners... Mostly meat and veggies, sometime some potato.

    I also make these things called "Egg Bites" which are like mini-quiches without a crust. I make them in a batch of 24 and freeze them and then take some for lunch or afternoon snacks.

    Afternoon snack: fruit, cottage cheese, cheese sticks, nuts, greek yogurt, egg bites (if I didn't have them for lunch), hard boiled eggs, beef jerky, a protein drink, or these special low-cal muffins I make with protein powder.

    Dinner: usually meat and veggies

    Evening snack: protein hot chocolate or nothing
  • HannahRoo
    HannahRoo Posts: 48 Member
    Breakfast (6 am)
    1 tortilla
    1/4 cup egg beaters
    1 slice fat free sharp cheese
    2 slices canadian bacon

    Snack (9:30 am)
    Strawberries with raw sugar (1 tsp)
    Dannon light and fit yogurt (6 oz)

    Lunch (11:30)
    sliced chicken breast
    light whole wheat bread
    1 slice fat free sharp cheese
    1 slice tomato
    1 dill pickle slice
    sometimes soup too

    Snack (1:45)
    apple and reduced fat peanut butter

    Snack (4:30)
    typically a banana and/or string cheese

    Dinner (around 6 pm)
    typically involves chicken breast or canned tuna, steamed or raw vegetables and bread or tortilla

    sometimes i have some sugar free jello if i have a sweet tooth
  • cardigirl
    cardigirl Posts: 492 Member
    On the days I work out here's my menu:

    Breakfast - 1 cup of Kashi Go Lean cereal
    1 banana
    1/2 cup skim milk
    cup of coffee

    Morning snack - 6 oz serving of no fat Greek yogurt
    1/2 cup of berries, either raspberries or strawberries or both
    2 Tbls of slivered raw almonds

    Lunch is usually some sort of meat leftover from dinner the night before, and veggies, either green beans with almonds or a big salad with lots of veggies in it. If I have the salad, I'll make a vinaigrette from olive oil, cider vinegar and various spices.

    Afternoon snack is often hummus with grape tomatoes

    Dinner is 4-6 oz of meat (chicken, steak, or fish) and more veggies.

    And if I'm feeling peckish after that, some microwave popcorn, but I don't often want that anymore.

    And lots and lots of water throughout the day.
  • singfree
    singfree Posts: 1,591 Member
    Today:

    Breakfast: Egg beaters w/ shrimp, 2 slices whole wheat 45 calorie bread.

    Mid-Morning: Whey protein & Light Vanilla Soy Milk

    Late Morning: Cup Breyer's Light Yogurt

    After Lunchtime workout: Packet (6 oz ) tuna w/ light mayo on 3 slices light wheat bread

    Mid afternoon: Some raw mixed veggies

    Late afternoon: Whey protein, banana, skim milk

    Workout: One hour biking

    Early evening: Homemade chicken salad sandwich and 1 oz almonds.
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