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Thanks mate.Nee bosh.
Take a look at FuelPrepUK. They might be of interest to you.
That's later. First of all, I want enough options at mealtimes so that I'm cooking decent food every day and not relying on crap.First step is to see how much you're eating mate. It could be that what you're having isn't inherently bad, just you're having a portion twice the recommended size.
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Once I've got step 1 sorted, we can look at what's actually in those meals, and have a think about the calories etc.
Until I've got a baseline, it would be wasted effort, because anything I look at now probably won't be being eaten this time next month.
I'm fairly sure its the crap food in combination with the snacking that's going to be the key. Making good, filling, healthier foods should fix both of those issues.
Long term, yeh, need to drop weight. Short term, I need to make that lifestyle change that I can stick to forever.I'd suggest if its to drop weight then I'd work your cals out first. The weight won't come off if you're eating 'healthier' but larger portions than you need.
If you're tight on time then batch cooking is the way to go IMO, ragu with a fresh soffrito base, tomato based curries with onions, chillis with a holy trinity base and beans, tagine with onions, peppers, chickpeas. I do a spicy lentil dish with mirepoix, tomatoes, green lentils (50p a can) you could freeze that and I just hoy a couple of decent sausages on top. All of these are one pot dishes that can freeze, have plenty of fresh veg and fibre in them.
I've been eating a lot of pork loins lately, lean source of meat, half a bag of microwave rice and half a big head of brocolli. Less than 600 cals, big protein hit and can do done in about 15 minutes. I do mine on my Traeger.
Just cutting down on what I normally eat won't be sustainable. That's why I need to eat better meals - stuff that's more filling, but less calorific. Less packaged, processed etc. Less refined carbs, foods that will keep me full and won't have me reaching for snacks later one. Know what I mean?
I just don't know where to start - there's almost too much info out there, so I can't see the wood for the trees.
The stuff you mentioned is EXACTLY what I mean. Got any good links to places to make stuff like that? As it happens, that's the type of stuff we do eat, but there's variations and other things out there that we can add.
Funny enough, that's exactly what I walked into tonight. With home made coleslaw, salad and "slimming world chips" (tiny spray of oil then baked in the oven). tbh, I could skip the chips (I could easily stop eating all potato products, they're all only as nice as a sauce that's on them)Struggling to help, but i use the Maggi bags to cook chicken, brown rice and veg. Very easy meal.
Last night I made Al's Chicken Teryaki (its amazing, but tbh, full of sugar) on jasmine rice
The night before, and theres a theme here, Al's lamb rogan josh curry, with rice again
Funny, I always thought of rice as healthy, but it isn't is it?
I'm cooking more this week as I took a week off work - that's why I've got the time to post on here more than usual etc.
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