Food suggestions
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Gotta try keep it interesting. If ya dont vary the food then all ya can change is the sauce and putting chilli sauce on everything just aint that good in the long run.<br />
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Also eat alot of fresh and smoked fish. Got a whole lot of snapper fillets in the fridge right now plus about 5 kg in kingfish slabs from yesterday. Gonna try head home shortly to put the smoker on for the kingfish and then my lunch for the week will be sorted. -
Yeah, it's a pain. I usually only have about 20/30mins to relax in the middle of the day and eat. So I don't want to spend too long preparing lunch.<br />
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Breakfast I have sorted now, took ages to wean off having toast but I don't miss that anymore. Dinner is pretty good, and I having that around 6pm most days now too, and the wife puts in a big effort here for the kids, and I benefit <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' /> Just need that middle meal fixed now, even my snacks are good. -
I eat every now and again Wholegrain tortilla wraps or other (non-white) wraps.
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the bart lunch options, some prep required, but easy as.<br />
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saled. tin of tuna lite on salad. 5 rice wafers - the flavoured ones (ten if they are the skinny salt and viniger ones).<br />
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sub tuna for lite cottage cheese on salad, or spread on rice wafers.<br />
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sub for the rice wafers 200g of kumara (roasted the night before with your dinne) or pumpkin.<br />
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Well I diet plan as follows <br />
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Breakfast:<br />
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Bread with Peanut Butter , Honey, Green Tea<br />
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Lunch: <br />
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Chicken Burger<br />
Rice<br />
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Dinner:<br />
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Russian Salad<br />
Chinese Rice<br />
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Hooroo spotted that it/he was likely a Bot.<br />
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Something I often make up and use for the wife's lunches is the 'Instant' Falafel mix. Basically ground chickpea with some herbs and spices. Mix with water and fry some small patties of it in a little olive oil (you can omit this with a good nonstick pan) then use to bulk out salads etc. mainly protein and a little carb. Makes a filling salad with some baby beetroot and a bit of Feta. For a dressing just mix some low fat yoghurt with teaspoon of Tahini (or you could mix in a pinch of chilli, or just some ground pepper)
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[quote name='Crucial']Something I often make up and use for the wife's lunches is the 'Instant' Falafel mix. Basically ground chickpea with some herbs and spices. Mix with water and fry some small patties of it in a little olive oil (you can omit this with a good nonstick pan) then use to bulk out salads etc. mainly protein and a little carb. Makes a filling salad with some baby beetroot and a bit of Feta. For a dressing just mix some low fat yoghurt with teaspoon of Tahini (or you could mix in a pinch of chilli, or just some ground pepper)[/QUOTE]<br />
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That sounds really tasty! will have to check it out.<br />
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I've been coooking brown rice and then making a stir fry - onions, garlic, ginger form the base then add whatever is at hand - done veges ones with mushrooms and meat ones with spicy sausages diced up in it. Find portion size can get cut right down as brown rice is so filling. -
Yep, brown rice is another goodie as a base for lunches. Just cook up extra at night and put it in the fridge. Plenty of quick rice salad type ideas can be used. BR with some pesto and feta is good.<br />
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I hardly ever cook white rice now unless it's for a curry that you something to mop up the sauce with. Brown rice never really works like that. -
Came across this. Gives some great tips<br />
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Caesar salad (no dressing). Parmesan is quite high in protein and has acceptable levels of fat compared to other cheeses. Lettuce is roughage. Egg is good protein. Chicken if you can get it, but bacon if not provided it isn't too fatty. If you've got leftover roast chicken to throw that in to some lettuce and sliced parmesan before you go to work. Boiled eggs keep in the fridge so you can slice them up and throw in as well. Overall quite high on the protein and low on carbs so you don't get that post-lunch crash. Another variation is just rocket and parmesan salad - chuck in just a few semidried tomatoes to flavour it up (preferably tomatoes in cold pressed olive oil).<br />
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Thai beef salad is great, especially if the beef is a little rare. Heaps of recipes out there and you can use leftover steak and a little bit of sweet chilli dressing to pad out the flavour.<br />
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I have the luxury of a supermarket in my building so sometimes I just go grab a little bit of cheese, some cold cut turkey or beef (does contain preservatives which is a downside), grapes, and maybe a nut bar for lunch. Mixes it up a bit but you can do the same thing when you go shopping - think about lunches as composite meals of little elements to keep it interesting. Turkey is pretty good on the protein vs fat scale and if you can get the roast version (instead of pressed) it is great.