Weight-Loss Some easy Foods

[Primevci]

i work a 40hr a week job and goto school 2 nights a week for 3 hrs, i was wondering what some good quick breakfast meals and lunch meals would be good for loosing weight.. on my school nights what would be a good dinner my school is 40 miles from my house threw bad traffic and only 3 miles from my job so running home is not a option... thansk for any help just asking what you guys would eat on the go like this.. worst part of school was i was eating crap for dinner and you can imagine what that would do over 5 years...

 

[satguy]

I eat ceral. Take your pick but make sure they arent mostly sugar.

 

[summer123]

Healthy and low calorie foods are not normally as quick to prepare as the fast food junk (eg you can't pick it up on the way back from work in 2 mins flat from Mc Donalds) but if you take some time aside maybe at the weekend to preplan and prepare meals in advance, you should be OK.

Maybe take saturday and sunday to prepare a very large meal which you can then put into small containers, freeze and have one by one during the week. Most things keep for 3 weeks at least, many keep for way longer. If you make say 5-8 portions a time, you will get to a point where you have many prefrozen meals and a great variety. (I used to do this at uni).

Some good examples of meals which are good to prepare in bulk and then freeze in portions are:
Bolognaise made with lean mince,
Curry made with chick peas or chicken
Chargrilled chicken breasts
Fish in a cream sauce (made with skimmed milk and lower fat options)
saag aloo potatoes and lentils
.....there are so many options- grab a recipy book.

Don't freeze rice, pasta, cous cous, things that have already been cooked from frozen and anything you chose to eat in the next 3 days.

What you do when you get home is just cook up a source of carbohydrates and if there is not one within the meal your re-heating, some vegetables. Cous cous, jacket potato, spaghetti, mashed potato, toast.... whatever you want.

Thats dinner sorted!

For lunch, its really about preparing stuff the night before. Sandwishes- you could do a similar mass-meal cooking thing and make a tuna-pasta with sweetcorn, dicec cucumber, sliced peppers and cherry tomatos. Add some lemon juice and you have a pasta dish for a good few days in your fridge. Other ideas could be chicken cous-cous with balsamic vinegar, chick-peas and diced vegetables and spices, sea-food pasta made with salmon, prawns, scallops, mussles..etc and olives, cherry tomatos, cucumber, green beans...etc
Only thing you can't save for a few days is rice. Its normally fine for like 24 hours but after that the rice grows bacteria at an alarming rate and could make you ill.

Breakfast: if you have the time, cereal is great, just be sure to weigh your cereal as its very easy to go overboard without realising: they use childrens bowls on the front of cereal boxes, there is no way what you see is 25 or 30g!
Porridge: whole rolled oats from the supermarket. Put 30g (or whatever you decide on) into a bowl, add dried peices of dried fruit for more fiber, (just make sure to calorie count it) cover with either milk or water and heat in a microwave for 2-3 mins. Keep an eye on yur bowl as if you have over filled it, the microwave will have it spill over the sides!
Rice cakes and cream cheese also make a nice breakfast. If you have the time, with a hard boiled egg sliced and tomato added is another option.
And if you have a good 20 mins, bakes beans on toast is a very filling and healthy option. Try to drink some orange juice or have an apple with that to balance it out as it otherwise has little in the way of fresh fruit and vegetables (the tomato sauce really isn't all that healthy despite having vitamin C in!)

The deal with losing weight is to have fewer calories going in then coming out so work out what your aiming for and then separate it out so you know what your able to eat within that.

Snacking between meals is fine too as long as you account for it. Try to stick to fresh fruit or vegetable sticks to keep the calories low.

 

[jeankarla]

Meatballs minus the meat - a raw food treat

How to make RAW MEATBALLS?

We will start with preparing raw walnuts. You have to soak them in water for about an hour, and then put it in the food processor. Another ingredient would be Portobello mushrooms that have also been soaked with some garlic and some olive oil. This will also be added to the food processor along with the walnuts.

We also need some fresh Italian parsley, chopped thyme, some Italian spices and cloves of garlic that’s also been chopped. Then we add them all into the food processor. We will then add some olive oil, sea salt and crushed bell pepper to add a little spice into the recipe. We wouild then add some oregano. And we blend it. We will know if its ready because it will form into a ball or it would start to clump up, and that’s the consistency that we need.

It’s all set then we will be rolling the meatballs into the dehydrator tray. We form small meatballs and line them up in a dehydrator. Put them for about 4 to 6 hours and with a temperature of 115. And it’s ready to be served. We can also add this with some raw tomato sauce and some greens. We can also have it with raw pasta and some spices to add more flavor to the raw food recipe.

 

[Jeanette401]

A couple of my favorite 'easy' breakfasts.

Weight Control Oatmeal - fast, easy, has protein & fiber.

Egg beaters + low fat/fat free cheese + onions + soy taco or ground beef etc. Throw in tortilla for breakfast burrito. If you use frozen onions, can take less than 5 minutes.

Low fat cottage cheese + fruit.

Smoothie - Greek yogurt or protein powder + frozen fruit + psyllium husk + maybe sweetener. Throw in blender, drink.

 

[Toddless]

Hey Prime,
I'm in the same sort of situation. Here's what I have:
Every morning before I go to work I drink a glass of whole milk. I know there's fat in it, that's the point. It's a great combo of fat, carbs and protein that keeps me feeling full until 11, at which point I break out the oatmeal. None of this "instant, lose weight, omega-3, flax and barley and hops and who knows what else..." I get Quaker Oats, the quick 1-Minute kind (they're just rolled thinner than regular). Throw those in a cup with some hot water from the coffee spigot, a pinch of salt (I bring my own sea salt grinder), and a handful of raisins. Quick and easy and anyone can do it.
As for what to eat for lunch and dinner... it helps to cook. "Making and Taking" is probably your best route, but if you've got to buy something form the store, here's my rule: Low sugar, low salt. These are huge indicators of heavily processed foods. Of course I glance at the calories, but I'd rather eat high-cal good-for-you than low-cal processed crap. Good luck!