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RE: Whats your favorite
Anything I can eat with a dollop of peanut butter.
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Anything I can eat with a dollop of peanut butter.
Ruth:9
Whats your favorite "Clean" meal/snack
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RE: Whats your favorite
Shonie,
I'm very jealous that you can eat that much... i would if i could!!! When i go to visit my parents who still live on a farm, i am sure i eat at least 2000+ calories a day and usually lose weight. When i first started my current job, sitting at a desk all day, i didn't change my eating habits much, and quickly gained 10 pounds, even though my workouts were the same. Oh how i miss being active during the day!!! x(
i think i've strayed a bit off topic... haha... sorry guys! i'll quiet down now
Shonie,
I'm very jealous that you can eat that much... i would if i could!!! When i go to visit my parents who still live on a farm, i am sure i eat at least 2000+ calories a day and usually lose weight. When i first started my current job, sitting at a desk all day, i didn't change my eating habits much, and quickly gained 10 pounds, even though my workouts were the same. Oh how i miss being active during the day!!! x(
i think i've strayed a bit off topic... haha... sorry guys! i'll quiet down now
RE: Whats your favorite
I count calories and I like Dannon light yogart with Kashi Go Lean and Fiber One or Bran Buds. It tastes like dessert, & I eat it twice a day.
To figure out my calorie allowance to maintain my weight, I use the 14 X my weight formula. It works even with a pig-out day - I take 14X my weight and multiply it by 7, then subtract 5000 for the pigout day, and that leaves the remainder which I divide by six for a per day allowance. So I allow about 1400 calories per day for the days when I'm "being good."
I count calories and I like Dannon light yogart with Kashi Go Lean and Fiber One or Bran Buds. It tastes like dessert, & I eat it twice a day.
To figure out my calorie allowance to maintain my weight, I use the 14 X my weight formula. It works even with a pig-out day - I take 14X my weight and multiply it by 7, then subtract 5000 for the pigout day, and that leaves the remainder which I divide by six for a per day allowance. So I allow about 1400 calories per day for the days when I'm "being good."
RE: Whats your favorite
I know this sounds boring....but my favorite two meals are below. I think I like them best as they make me really feel like I am eating clean!
oatmeal w/cinnamon and fake brown sugar
cottage cheese
Cottage cheese
yogurt
I also LOVE the Body For Life recipe of wheat pasta w/shrimp. It is delicious! If you don't already have the body for life cookbok I HIGHLY recommend it. We live on some of the recipes in that book. Some of them are not truly clean so you have to pick and choose. I love the pancake recipe in there - totally clean and yummy!
I know this sounds boring....but my favorite two meals are below. I think I like them best as they make me really feel like I am eating clean!
oatmeal w/cinnamon and fake brown sugar
cottage cheese
Cottage cheese
yogurt
I also LOVE the Body For Life recipe of wheat pasta w/shrimp. It is delicious! If you don't already have the body for life cookbok I HIGHLY recommend it. We live on some of the recipes in that book. Some of them are not truly clean so you have to pick and choose. I love the pancake recipe in there - totally clean and yummy!
amy_b
Cathlete
RE: Whats your favorite
Some favorite clean foods:
Clean Chimichangas! For a big family.
Boil 6 chicken breasts in veg. broth or chicken broth. Drain off broth (sometimes I save it for clean tortilla soup) Cut it up w/ a bread knife so that the chicken is kind of shredded. Chop and add: one small onion, 12 oz. fresh salsa, 1 tsp. cumin, 1 tsp. oregano, cilantro if desired. Cook in a saucepan over low heat until the water is cooked out and you have something that resembles taco filling.
Fill a whole wheat tortilla w/ the chicken mixture (add brown rice, small amount of cheese if desired or other veggies, like steamed bell peppers or black beans). Fold up the tortilla into a rectangle and spray with cooking spray and bake at 350 for 12 minutes or until tortilla is lightly crisp.
These are SO good and a favorite of even the non-clean eaters around our house.
I also make buckwheat pancakes w/ flax seed. Sometimes we have healthy waffle sandwiches filled w/ yogurt so that we avoid syrup. Anything looks good if you make it in a mickey mouse waffle iron.
Healthy spaghetti-
93% lean ground sirloin sauteed with finely chopped spinach, mushrooms and tomatoes so that the kids don't even know its in there. (I actually hide LOTS of veggies in spaghetti sauce. The volume of meat to veggies is about equal) I buy tomato sauce at whole foods and look for sauces with no sugar or other junk in there. Then I give them a small amount of whole wheat pasta with a large amount of meaty-veggie sauce.
I also buy veggie trays and fruit trays and I make them eat one serving of each. Raw veggies are actually quite easy on me and over time, they have all found some that they will eat fairly willingly.
I'm always trying to get them to eat better because it makes a huge difference for them in the way they behave.
Some favorite clean foods:
Clean Chimichangas!
For a big family.Boil 6 chicken breasts in veg. broth or chicken broth. Drain off broth (sometimes I save it for clean tortilla soup) Cut it up w/ a bread knife so that the chicken is kind of shredded. Chop and add: one small onion, 12 oz. fresh salsa, 1 tsp. cumin, 1 tsp. oregano, cilantro if desired. Cook in a saucepan over low heat until the water is cooked out and you have something that resembles taco filling.
Fill a whole wheat tortilla w/ the chicken mixture (add brown rice, small amount of cheese if desired or other veggies, like steamed bell peppers or black beans). Fold up the tortilla into a rectangle and spray with cooking spray and bake at 350 for 12 minutes or until tortilla is lightly crisp.
These are SO good and a favorite of even the non-clean eaters around our house.
I also make buckwheat pancakes w/ flax seed. Sometimes we have healthy waffle sandwiches filled w/ yogurt so that we avoid syrup. Anything looks good if you make it in a mickey mouse waffle iron.
Healthy spaghetti-
93% lean ground sirloin sauteed with finely chopped spinach, mushrooms and tomatoes so that the kids don't even know its in there. (I actually hide LOTS of veggies in spaghetti sauce. The volume of meat to veggies is about equal) I buy tomato sauce at whole foods and look for sauces with no sugar or other junk in there. Then I give them a small amount of whole wheat pasta with a large amount of meaty-veggie sauce.
I also buy veggie trays and fruit trays and I make them eat one serving of each. Raw veggies are actually quite easy on me and over time, they have all found some that they will eat fairly willingly.
I'm always trying to get them to eat better because it makes a huge difference for them in the way they behave.