What do your meals look like?

belle785 · March 2014

I need some inspiration on some new meals and to eat healthier. What does your daily food intake look like? When are you snacking and about how many calories are you eating? Thanks ladies!

rockyrollgirl · March 2014

Cheese, cheese, cheese
and MORE cheese!

chase16 · March 2014

Tonight it looked like pizza

Seriously, though, I generally try to cook pretty healthy. I usually have a form of protein, chicken, fish, beef, or pork, veggies (sometimes fresh, sometimes frozen), and maybe rice or mashed potatoes. For lunch I generally have leftovers or a salad.. Usually with cottage cheese or greek yogurt. Breakfast is granola and milk, granola and yogurt, or eggs. I don't count calories. My advice to you would be to eat as fresh as possible. Don't buy prepared meals (like hamburger helper). There are tons of sites with easy, clean recipes. Here are some of my favs:
paleotable.com
paleomg.com
12tomatoes.com

kimberlybethh · March 2014

I usually have a yogurt around tenish and again at 3pm. If I don't have yogurt I usually have a fiber one bar, hummus and carrots or a rice cake with peanut butter. I'm bad about portion size/control so I try to find snacks that are already in single servings. I usually have a protein bar for breakfast and lean cuisine with fruit and yogurt for lunch. I make stir fry a lot for dinner since it is quick and easy to make. We also have a lot of weight watcher casseroles. My favorite is the southwest chicken and baked ziti. My other favorite place for healthy recipes is skinny taste. The chicken parm recipe is amazing!! Their website is really easy to navigate since they have it organized into meal/entree type.

Valancyy · March 2014

Notchotchke said:

You don't want to know. It's a lot of carbs still and ice cream. I do try to eat healthy but it can be hard some days.

This is me.

I should add that I do cook a pretty decent dinner every night. Sometimes it's not as healthy, like mac and cheese, but it's homemade mac and cheese! I add broccoli to it.

We do the chicken/fish with rice/potatoes and veggies. So I mix in some healthier meals too.

Jentech84 · March 2014

Lol my lunch today was random stuff in my locker/the fridge at work - a cup of baby carrots, pretzel crackers with Boursin cheese (mm... So yummy). Preluded by a banana, followed by corn nuts, then a buffalo chicken wrap at a local pub for dinner. The best buffalo chicken anything ever!
Oh and honey nut Cheerios and strawberries for breakfast lol

OutdoorGirl10 · March 2014

I don't count calories so I have no idea. Generally breakfast is Greek yogurt, a granola bar and a banana with a decaf coffee. Lunch, well it used to be Jimmy John's but now it's usually the salad or something from the hot food buffet in the cafeteria. They also have fresh fruit cut up sominaleays get that too. Dinner is usually some sort of protein n veggies.

Snacking, I did more in the first tri, now I don't too much just because I'm not hungry for anything. When I do, it's usually a granola bar or cut up fruit or carrots. For me, I was never a huge fruit eater but I find if I buy the pre cut fruit I eat way more of it. I know it costs more but for now that's what I'll do. Usually it's around 10:30 am and around 4:00 pm that I'll have it.

lexxctpx · March 2014

Calorie counting blows and is just another stressful thing on your plate (no pun intended lol

).

A lot of the responses on here have been awesome already, but yeah. To add to the consensus, you need to be balanced, and that means:

A whole grain (cereal or oatmeal), fruit, and dairy (yogurt) for breakfast. Also if you've got time to cook up a protein go for it. Eggs are great, ham or bacon work too as long as you don't tweak on it hardcore by eating like a million pounds of it.

Lunch is leftovers or sammiches. There are some really great recipes out there for veggie sandwiches; try and include some avocado as it'll be a nice "healthy" fat supplement. Take along a potato salad or egg salad too if you want.

Dinner is a protein, and doesn't always have to be lean like chicken. As long as your daily menu is relatively balanced, having a meat with a little more saturated fat won't hurt, and is really great for you and baby anyhow in moderation. This is where you pack in the greens! Dark greens, like kale or collards or spinach, and the water it's cooked in retained as much as possible (that where the nutrients go!) Then add a carb. More whole grains, if you like! Or like other PPs, potatoes!! Sweet potatoes are yum, too. Plus they're packed with vitamin A (which you don't have to worry about hitting an upper limit on because it's from a veggie).

If you like to snack during the day, eat nuts or pack fruit! Those little tangerine Cuties things are delish and easy to take anywhere. Plus people will be jelly when you peel one. Also vitamin C, hoorayyyyy!

And most importantly, WATER WATER WATER!!!!! YAY WATER WHEEEEEEEE

Have fun and happy eating for you and little one!

P.S. yummly.com is a super schweet website where you will spend hours looking at delicious easy dishes to cook up.

ETA: a million typos

Allison7 · March 2014

So I was informed yesterday that in 4 weeks I may be calorie counting...because I am not gaining enough weight. Since I needed to lose 15 pound before I got pregnant, this is a problem I don't mind having. Plus, I know I eat enough.

My breakfast is usually honey nut Cheerios or peanut butter toast with orange juice or c-boost fruit smoothie (2 servings of fruit in that,) and a hot tea. Lunch is a yogurt, granola bar, a handful of trail mix and an apple sauce or grilled cheese, fruit cup, and granola bar. I snack on dried fruit and nuts trail mix all day. When I get home I usually have some bread with butter or cheese and crackers for a late snack to tide me over before dinner. Dinner is usually home cooked and balanced - a protein, carb, and veggies. Chicken noodle soup, lemon chicken and broccoli, pork chops with rice and green beans. I also like to have something sweet at night, so I have a piece of chocolate or two cookies...anything more than that and I get heartburn. If I am really hungry at night I will have applesauce or a fruit cup.

shevaCC · March 2014

Last month I subscribed to the Fresh20 meal planning service and so far have been really happy with it. Tonight our dinner was baked sole with broccoli and cheddar. Tomorrow is cutlets with roast potatoes and creamed spinach then orange beef with stir fry vegetables later in the week. It's typically reasonably healthy food that encourages me to use more and different vegetables rather than completely meat centric meals.

NSAbby · March 2014

There was tomatoes on my chicken salad sandwich last night, if that helps!

BlckRoses · March 2014

I was kinda sorta counting calories before pregnancy, but I wasn't very consistent. DH also had on us on this no grain thing, but I hated it.

Now I eat a lot of the same thing everyday. Breakfast is a protein smoothie, second breakfast is yogurt fruit and walnuts, lunch is leftovers from dinner with a cookie, snack is cheese and crackers, late afternoon snack is random but usually popcorn or cereal, then dinner is whatever DH cooks, but usually meat and fresh veggies, the dessert is usually ice cream. I will pin things on Pinterest that look good and DH will cook them for dinner if they aren't too outrageous.

Rannndi · March 2014

If I'm being honest...

RunningJ · March 2014

Since I work from home I have a lot of flexibility in what I eat and when. Week days are pretty regimented for me.

Breakfast- decaf coffee, oatmeal (I make a big batch on Monday and reheat some each morning) with a bit of diced banana, and a little peanut butter.

Lunch- egg salad (hard boiled egg, avocado, greek yogurt, red onion, paprika, cayenne, a bit of mayo) in half a pocket pita, carrots and hummus

Dinner- lately DH has been on a paleo type diet, so we have been doing separate dinners. On Mondays I make a big stir fry with chicken, broccoli, red pepper, pea pods, (a bit of honey, soy sauce, salt and pepper and garlic), and brown rice, and eat some that night and then pre-portion the rest of my meals for the week. I've been getting bad heartburn and my eyes are way bigger than my stomach, so pre-portioning my food and stopping when I'm full has become important.

I also snack on apples and peanut butter or almond butter when I'm hungry, or greek yogurt. Dessert is usually some sort of dark chocolate each night. Weekends are bit more of a free for all but it's nice to have my meals on a schedule so I don't ever get too hungry or too full.

I haven't been counting calories, but rather just going by what I was eating before pregnancy plus the 200-300 calories or so (generally in snack form).

enigmasara · March 2014

chase16 said:

Tonight it looked like pizza Seriously, though, I generally try to cook pretty healthy. I usually have a form of protein, chicken, fish, beef, or pork, veggies (sometimes fresh, sometimes frozen), and maybe rice or mashed potatoes. For lunch I generally have leftovers or a salad.. Usually with cottage cheese or greek yogurt. Breakfast is granola and milk, granola and yogurt, or eggs. I don't count calories. My advice to you would be to eat as fresh as possible. Don't buy prepared meals (like hamburger helper). There are tons of sites with easy, clean recipes. Here are some of my favs:
paleotable.com
paleomg.com
12tomatoes.com

Wait, what? No hamburger helper? I think that was going to be dinner tonight, but with lean ground turkey instead of ground beef. I do typically try to avoid pre-packaged meals though.

shutaff · March 2014

I'm not counting calories, but I don't think my eating has been out of control. I usually have an almond granola bar and banana for breakfast, then yogurt as a morning snack. My lunch is almost always a veggie sandwich or leftovers from dinner. For an afternoon snack, I usually have almonds, a cheese stick, or hummus and pretzel crisps. Dinner is always different. If I cook at home, we have salmon and a baked potato, a salad and veggie pizza, etc. (I don't eat meat or fast food) but we've been so busy we've been eating out (usually Mexican or cooked sushi) more than we probably should. I usually have a little piece of chocolate or a cookie or something for dessert. I only drink flavored water. Sometimes I will indulge in something and go overboard, but of the most part, I think I'm doing okay. I haven't noticed weight gain anywhere but right in my belly.

*edited to add stuff

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