Rebel's Diary

Could you make a list of foods you love to eat but aren´t a lot of work and are still somewhat healthy?
 
Today was about sleep mostly. I woke up about 4pm and had breakfast. I watched tv for awhile and fell asleep until about 2 am. I had lunch; well a snack really and am going back to sleep about 4am. As far as calories are concerned, today could be considered a semi-fast day...... Again.

Food...

Breakfast- Bacon x5 and eggs x5 with a 10 ounce glass of 2% milk. (788 Calories)

Lunch- 3.3 ounces of cheddar cheese, 10 ounces 2% milk, hand full of green grapes. (563 Calories)

Calories 1351
 
LaMaria said:
Could you make a list of foods you love to eat but aren´t a lot of work and are still somewhat healthy?
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Healthy for me might not be considered healthy for someone else. I guess I would consider a healthy food as a food that has a decent amount of protein and a workable amount of carbs. Vegetables.. Fresh is best but the ones flash frozen is a good option. Canned is an ok fall back but they have a ridiculous salt content. Fresh fruit of course. I try to stay away from ready to eat microwave foods. They are highly processed and tend to be food flavored salt and chemicals. The only exception would be the frozen indian food dinners. One is chicken tandoori with saag. The other is saag paneer. It's about all I can find that doesn't use rice or potato as a base.

Easy foods....
Bacon and eggs and I just healthy it up the best I can. Eggs are cooked in a non stick skillet so I don't need any oil. The bacon is baked because it's easy and it cooks out a lot of the fat. I set the oven at 400 degrees and put in the bacon that has been laid on a cookie sheet pan. I put it in the oven while it's pre- heating so it comes up to temp with the bacon inside. I cook it for 16 minutes and take it out and turn the bacon and put it back in for 5 minutes. I'm not a fan of crunchy bacon so this works well. It's soft but also cooked all the way through. It also removes a lot of fat. Its odd how much fat there is in bacon.
I'd say it's fairly healthy except for the cholesterol in the eggs. I have always had a good cholesterol level so I don't think about it much.

Tuna fish salad..
Canned tuna and a small amount of mayo plus onion, roasted red pepper, dill pickle relish, 1 boiled egg(when I feel like going through the trouble), sometimes a small amount of diced apple for some crunch and sweetness. I normally just eat it out of a bowl but if you had the drive and determination you could put it over some lettuce with some sliced tomato and have a full blown salad. Or maybe fill some lettuce leaves with it and turn it into a wrap of sorts.
Most meat dishes can be cooked in the oven within an hour. Some fairly simple ones would be baked chicken parm and chicken cacciatore.
Parm- bake some chicken breast till just done. Top with a good marinara sauce and some fresh parm and pop under a broil. In about a minute the sauce is hot and the parm is all melted and gooey.
Cacciatore- in a skillet brown chicken breast on one side. Flip it and add some veggies like onion, bell pepper, garlic. Top with a can or two of tomatoes and season it how you like. I use salt and pepper and some dried italian herbs. Bake it until the chicken is done. You could serve it over some pasta or with a side of veggies.
Pork chops and potatoes. Take some pork chops and season how you like. Top with sliced potato and a few onion slices. Wrap in aluminum foil and bake.
Really any food can be healthy or at least healthier if you work at it.
If there's a certain dish you like let me know. I'm sure we can put our heads together and healthy it up a bit.
 
What I really meant is to have a list handy for when you don't feel like eating/cooking. Stuff that isn't a lot of hassle and appeals to you taste-wise. Looks like you just made that list anyway :) I'll admit that an hour of prep time is wayyy too much when I'm not feeling great - unless it's my meal prep for the week. But then I don't enjoy cooking. At all.
 
LaMaria said:
What I really meant is to have a list handy for when you don't feel like eating/cooking. Stuff that isn't a lot of hassle and appeals to you taste-wise. Looks like you just made that list anyway :) I'll admit that an hour of prep time is wayyy too much when I'm not feeling great - unless it's my meal prep for the week. But then I don't enjoy cooking. At all.
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Well easy-peasy would be... Some fruit or maybe cottage cheese with diced peaches.
Tuna straight out of the can with some fresh lemon juice over the top. I have a lot of wraps. The ones I use have about 14 carbs but 6g of fiber. I basically just use those as my sandwich bread. Very easy to throw something on one or two and just call it done. Easy wraps are maybe some avocado with a little mayo and tomato and a few slices of sliced meat. Or fill them with grated cheese and microwave it for a quick quesadilla.
A lot of foods to be cooked in the oven could be put together the night b4 and just thrown in the oven after work.
Crock pot/ slow cooker meals. Throw stuff in b4 work and it's ready after....
 
Well I ended up not going back to bed until 7am. I ended up eating a bowl of cottage cheese with some diced peaches so that should have brought yesterdays calories to about 1700 calories. Not totally great but better than it was.
Plans for today....
I'll probably finally get out and look for a coffee maker. Thinking I might get an espresso machine instead of a drip brew machine. I'm just not sure how well they work. Im sure the home units don't produced the pressures of a coffee house version but maybe it'll be passable. Maybe I'll even look at a turkish coffee setup. I'm really not sure just yet.
 
It's about 04:30 am so today is mostly over......finally. Walked around a few stores today but that was about it.
Not planting any more grapes. It's just too easy to grab a few without even thinking about it. Time to just start giving them away.

Food.....

Breakfast- Bacon x5 and eggs x5, quad espresso with a splash of milk and 1 raw sugar packet. (706 Calories)

Lunch- Baked chicken parmesan; Boneless chicken breast, marinara sauce, fresh grated parmesan. (886 Calories)

Dinner- Cottage cheese with diced peaches and a few green grapes. (206 calories)

Calories 1798
 
Today was sitting in a dark room day. Sometimes there just seems to be too much going on.

Food...

Breakfast- 1 wrap with egg and cheese, 1 wrap with sliced turkey and avocado. (781 Calories)

Lunch- Broiled chopped steak with a little steak sauce, 1 sliced tomato, glass of milk. (1240 Calories)

Calories 2021
 
Weigh in day...
Weight 378 so I lost 3 pounds the last 2 weeks. I wish it was more but it seems as long as I'm eating carbs things will move kind of slow.
Woke up at 8 am with a phone call. Gael's parents flew in for a visit and now I have to go to one of those fancy smancy French restaurants for dinner. Oh how I loathe French food. I'm just a simple farm boy/ rancher and it just makes no sense to have to use more than one fork at dinner.
French food= 1 pound of butter and 2 cups of flour for every ounce of meat. Carbs were blown b4 my feet even hit the floor.
Since carbs aren't really an issue today decided to have some irish oats/ porridge for breakfast. With the oats and raisins and peanut butter carbs today will definitely hit the tilt zone.
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