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A twitter person was asking for more inspiration for meal ideas on the diet we're both following. I thought I'd list some of my meals. I eat a LOT of food on my diet.
Cooked breakfast contains 3-6 of the following items:
1-2 quorn sausages, Iceland or Waitrose frozen grilled vegetables (aubergine/courgette/onion/tomato) 'fried'*, scrambled or 'fried' egg(s), baked beans with extra flavouring (usually garlic and/or chilli), grilled tomato or heated tinned tomato, grilled mushroom or 'fried' mushroom, ready-chopped garlic, wholemeal noodles, leftover potato 'fried', super-trimmed bacon with no visible fat. (I often have a lot of time in the morning; making a cooked breakfast will take me 15 minutes or less though.)
My lunches are often small, as I usually work out around lunchtime.
Very low fat cottage cheese with sticks of raw veg (carrot/celery/cucumber) or fruit.
Very low fat yogurt with a portion of fruit.
5 scan bran (100% bran crispbread) with quark very low fat soft cheese and sliced fruit and ONE PINT OF WATER.
5 scan bran with quark and smoked salmon trimmings with sliced cucumber and ONE PINT OF WATER.
One small pack of cooked skinless chicken, pack of something like mange tout/sugar snap peas/baby sweetcorn, piece of fruit.
Roast vegetables - I eat a lot! I typically eat 1-2 carrots, 1 parsnip**, 1 portion swede, possibly potato. Chop up the vegetables in similar sized pieces. The larger the pieces, the longer they cook for. Spray a big roasting tin with Fry Light, bung in the vegetables, optionally add some herbs/spices/garlic. Cook in a pre-heated oven at 200C (180C fan oven) for 30-45 minutes, turning once half-way through cooking. Root vegetables take up to 45 minutes, things like peppers take closer to 30 minutes. Experiment - add things like the stalk of a cabbage (chopped). Serve with quorn sausages or meat/fish.
Piece of chicken or fish in a parcel. Use the seasonings of your choice (sliced lemon/garlic/herbs/salt&pepper/spices). Put half of the mixture onto the middle of enough foil to coat your chicken or fish with maybe 20% foil to spare. Put the chicken/fish on top, add the other half of your seasoning, then cover the fish/chicken with the same piece of foil. Times/temperatures depend on whether it is chicken or fish and the size of the chicken/fish. I often serve this with roast vegetables.
Bung-it-in-a-pan-with-garlic. Gather stuff from your fridge/freezer and store cupboard. Sauté some garlic with some of the stuff if appropriate. Add a tin of tomatoes and/or stock. Add some herbs and/or spices and water. Cook! Mmm. Stuff thrown together can be great. Using a slow cooker for this can be good - you put it in the morning and go to work or whatever then you have a tasty meal when you get back.
Vegetable and lentil or bean stew. Saut&eactue: some garlic and (optionally) onion with Fry light. Add stock and seasonings, and (if you're lazy like me) a stew pack of pre-chopped vegetables. Simmer for a while, then add a drained/rinsed tin of lentils or beans. Add some pasta about 20 minutes before you finish cooking the stew (making sure there is enough liquid for it). Great filling winter food.
Quorn mince + toms + flavourings + veg + rice/pasta/potatoes.
Also, see Nye's fancy beans for some easy ways to jazz up baked beans.
* Everything 'fried' is fried using a few squirts of Fry Light.
** Unfortunately parsnips aren't free on Original days.
Cooked breakfast contains 3-6 of the following items:
1-2 quorn sausages, Iceland or Waitrose frozen grilled vegetables (aubergine/courgette/onion/tomato) 'fried'*, scrambled or 'fried' egg(s), baked beans with extra flavouring (usually garlic and/or chilli), grilled tomato or heated tinned tomato, grilled mushroom or 'fried' mushroom, ready-chopped garlic, wholemeal noodles, leftover potato 'fried', super-trimmed bacon with no visible fat. (I often have a lot of time in the morning; making a cooked breakfast will take me 15 minutes or less though.)
My lunches are often small, as I usually work out around lunchtime.
Very low fat cottage cheese with sticks of raw veg (carrot/celery/cucumber) or fruit.
Very low fat yogurt with a portion of fruit.
5 scan bran (100% bran crispbread) with quark very low fat soft cheese and sliced fruit and ONE PINT OF WATER.
5 scan bran with quark and smoked salmon trimmings with sliced cucumber and ONE PINT OF WATER.
One small pack of cooked skinless chicken, pack of something like mange tout/sugar snap peas/baby sweetcorn, piece of fruit.
Roast vegetables - I eat a lot! I typically eat 1-2 carrots, 1 parsnip**, 1 portion swede, possibly potato. Chop up the vegetables in similar sized pieces. The larger the pieces, the longer they cook for. Spray a big roasting tin with Fry Light, bung in the vegetables, optionally add some herbs/spices/garlic. Cook in a pre-heated oven at 200C (180C fan oven) for 30-45 minutes, turning once half-way through cooking. Root vegetables take up to 45 minutes, things like peppers take closer to 30 minutes. Experiment - add things like the stalk of a cabbage (chopped). Serve with quorn sausages or meat/fish.
Piece of chicken or fish in a parcel. Use the seasonings of your choice (sliced lemon/garlic/herbs/salt&pepper/spices). Put half of the mixture onto the middle of enough foil to coat your chicken or fish with maybe 20% foil to spare. Put the chicken/fish on top, add the other half of your seasoning, then cover the fish/chicken with the same piece of foil. Times/temperatures depend on whether it is chicken or fish and the size of the chicken/fish. I often serve this with roast vegetables.
Bung-it-in-a-pan-with-garlic. Gather stuff from your fridge/freezer and store cupboard. Sauté some garlic with some of the stuff if appropriate. Add a tin of tomatoes and/or stock. Add some herbs and/or spices and water. Cook! Mmm. Stuff thrown together can be great. Using a slow cooker for this can be good - you put it in the morning and go to work or whatever then you have a tasty meal when you get back.
Vegetable and lentil or bean stew. Saut&eactue: some garlic and (optionally) onion with Fry light. Add stock and seasonings, and (if you're lazy like me) a stew pack of pre-chopped vegetables. Simmer for a while, then add a drained/rinsed tin of lentils or beans. Add some pasta about 20 minutes before you finish cooking the stew (making sure there is enough liquid for it). Great filling winter food.
Quorn mince + toms + flavourings + veg + rice/pasta/potatoes.
Also, see Nye's fancy beans for some easy ways to jazz up baked beans.
* Everything 'fried' is fried using a few squirts of Fry Light.
** Unfortunately parsnips aren't free on Original days.