Healthy meals ideas?

Salad, salad, and more salad for dinner. Put different things in it each day. One day use chicken, another day fish, etc. Make sure you drink your 8 cups of water each day and do your best to stay under your calorie goals. Cut back significantly on your bread intake. Lower carb and higher protein meals seem to work best. :flowerforyou:

going to be easier said than done but try and change your job, having so much temptation facing you day in day out is going to be really hard.

easy recipes that can be warmed in a microwave are
stew - chop up whatever veg are seasonal and cheap - try not to put too many potatos in - add some lean meat or quorn, a stock cube and simmer for 30 mins until tender. portion up into plastic sealable pots, it freezes well too
pasta salad or pasta bake - loads of recipes about on web sites for variations
also have a look on the slimming world website for lunchbox ideas, copy them and work out the calories

good luck x

A great place to find recipes is Pinterest. (: i have found alot of healthy recipes.

Stews, stirfrys, curries and steaming!

If you're broke (believe me I understand) check out your local farmer's market for ridiculously cheap fruit and veg. Grab some brown rice, lean cuts of meat (if a meaty), quinoa, lentils, chickpeas and eggs. Try and get some balance in each meal as well between whole carbs, protein and micros.

I tend to google a lot of recipes and adapt them to be healthier. Even something as simple as stir fry veg with a little garlic and light soy sauce is a winner. You can create your recipes on here too so you can track exactly what your own recipe serves are

If like these foods: Buy tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers on sale. Wash and chop into bite size pieces. Top with win inch square crumbled to a table spoon Feta cheese lite an a sprinkle of balsamic or site wine vinegar (whatever is on sale and cheap). Make about two cups for a meal.

one of my favourties is butternut squash and red onion bake.

get some cubed butternut squash, 1 red onion (diced), spinach and some low fat greek salad cheese.

cook the butternut squash and the onion in an oven proof dish for around 20mins at 180 (fan assisted UK) until the squash is soft and onions are soft and slightly charred at the edges. Mix up and add some pepper.

Rinse the spinach (as much as you like) and add it to the squash mix with a small ammount of the cheese (totally optional).

Bake for a further 10 mins until the spinach has reduced in size.

Really yummy and fills me up.

"Sounds good and filling

If your an ice cream junkie try this:

Freeze sliced up banana's (i use 100 grams)
add the frozen bananas to a food processor blend until creamy
takes a few minutes. after creamy add 2 teaspoons chunky peanut butter.
and then some cocoa powder about 1/4 teaspoon blend together. It
taste's and feels like real ice cream all for about 155 calories. I make it almost every night.

Get 100g of tofu or 80g I can't remember how much I used this morning but put in on the hob and let it heat up and stir it, i =t will start to look like scrambled eggs! Add a small pinch of basil and black pepper! Get two slices of nimble bread and toast it's little bready life out, you may want to add butter, if so try adding cashew butter to it Tastes just like scrambled eggies and I love it the tofu I get is the silken tofu, cost me £1.85 and the nimble bread was about £1 or so, can't really remember and the butter around £2 or a little less. All these can last well into the week making it nice and cheap for you too Good luck and I hope this little recipe helps...it's about the height of my cooking