Since I decided to change my diet, I've definitely struggled most with the between meal snacks. Let me explain:
I go to school at night, so between that and work, I don't consistently have time to hit the gym. As a result, I was probably about 30 lbs over what I wanted to be, so I decided to stop eating two big meals a day and instead eat 5x a day, ~300 calories per meal. So far, that's made it so that I don't get too hungry at any point such that I'll eat a giant, out of control meal. 1500 calories a day has me down to 188 now, where I had started at just over 200 after New Years. It doesn't sound like a ton of calories, but spread out over the day, I'm only slightly hungry, albeit constantly. I digress, not a diet thread, this is YACT.
I eat breakfast (usually a McD's Egg McMuffin), lunch (Lean Cuisine or Eating Smart, safeway's knockoff), and dinner (see lunch, or if its the weekend, I cook). That leaves two more meals a day that I have to fill. On school nights or if I work late, a clif bar is usually the 3pm snack, but it gets old. Tonight, w/ my fiancee out of town, I decided to waste some time in the kitchen and cook whatever I had in the fridge. Found a butternut squash and decided to roast it.
The following happened:
1. Heated up a little bit of leftover white rice from the Chinese restaurant, added some milk and nuked it.
2. In the middle of that, a couple of chunks of the roasted squash, topped with a bit of chipotle salsa.
3. I topped it all with a poached egg, with a bit of tabasco in the water.
4. Seasoned it all liberally with salt, pepper, cayenne, and a touch of MSG.
This might be one of my regular meals. It's light, fairly complete, and filling. For anyone else that snacks or eats small meals, what are some of your recipes that break up the monotony of convenience foods?
I go to school at night, so between that and work, I don't consistently have time to hit the gym. As a result, I was probably about 30 lbs over what I wanted to be, so I decided to stop eating two big meals a day and instead eat 5x a day, ~300 calories per meal. So far, that's made it so that I don't get too hungry at any point such that I'll eat a giant, out of control meal. 1500 calories a day has me down to 188 now, where I had started at just over 200 after New Years. It doesn't sound like a ton of calories, but spread out over the day, I'm only slightly hungry, albeit constantly. I digress, not a diet thread, this is YACT.
I eat breakfast (usually a McD's Egg McMuffin), lunch (Lean Cuisine or Eating Smart, safeway's knockoff), and dinner (see lunch, or if its the weekend, I cook). That leaves two more meals a day that I have to fill. On school nights or if I work late, a clif bar is usually the 3pm snack, but it gets old. Tonight, w/ my fiancee out of town, I decided to waste some time in the kitchen and cook whatever I had in the fridge. Found a butternut squash and decided to roast it.
The following happened:
1. Heated up a little bit of leftover white rice from the Chinese restaurant, added some milk and nuked it.
2. In the middle of that, a couple of chunks of the roasted squash, topped with a bit of chipotle salsa.
3. I topped it all with a poached egg, with a bit of tabasco in the water.
4. Seasoned it all liberally with salt, pepper, cayenne, and a touch of MSG.
This might be one of my regular meals. It's light, fairly complete, and filling. For anyone else that snacks or eats small meals, what are some of your recipes that break up the monotony of convenience foods?
