Okay so how is this?. Here is how I eat
Very little fast food
Not a soda person, love water
I am a huge meat eater love fish, steak, beef only in spaghetti and major chicken eatter.
I eat a lot of tuna, spaghetti, tuna noodle, home made mac n cheese, instant potatos, canned green beans and corn, artichokes, salad, tomatos, lunch meat, little or no mayo not big on it. i have a small chocolate something after dinner, i eat yogurt, fruit, pretzels, we usually eat the boxes of sides noodles or rices (not a lot of money to make our own) we have to make 100.00 last us a month. Homemade nachos, bbq anything we can, i want to learn what fresh cheap veggies and such we can eat for cheap. was big on bananaas but now they’re going bad to fast. i eat doroitos from time to time, cooked up onions..sure there is more….
SORRY. it posted to the top on its own, i hit reply… i also eat wheat bread very little to not white bread
lol oh and. eggs, bell pepers, some bacon not a lot, love to eat pepper jack cheese…
ohhh cheese, I’ve had to cut. down the cheese cuz I love it. I could eat it every meal! Now it’s pretty much a treat for me and I only eat it a few times a week or so and only 1 oz at a time.
It sounds like you have a LOT of carbs.. The cheapest vegetables are the ones that are in season and are grown locally. Keep an eye out for sales on frozen vegetables.Buy bananas in smaller quantities unless you can get them real cheap in bulk. If you have too many and they are ripening too fast, then cut them into chunks and freeze them. You can use them in smoothies as both the fruit and the “ice” to cool the drink down. (you can also throw the frozen chunks into a food processor for a non-fat desert that is like ice cream.
sounds good!. thanks
carbs. I need to know what i eat eat inplace of these carbs because all i can come up with to eat it CARBS! i feel like thats all there is.
I eat vegetables instead of grain products.. I eat a salad at lunch and include one with dinner and I eat it before I eat other foods.While vegetables are carbs, they aren’t mostly starch, and aren’t calorically dense the way bread, noodles, and rice are. It takes some getting used to, but it soon becomes second nature to eat a wide variety of vegetables and to include at least two or three with supper.
eat real potatoes instead of instant.. Personally, I’d cut out the all the empty calories from white flour pasta and white rice, skip the Doritos, and cut back on the cheese.
I realize that pasta and rice are cheap, so this may not be doable for you. I like to eat beans and lentils as side dishes. They are cheap, filling, and nutritious.
Would you consider getting a library book about nutrition, and reading it? If would really help you out in understanding what choices to make. ‘Nutrition for Dummies’ has been frequently recommended here, as has ‘YOU on a Diet’, by Doctors Roizen and Oz.
Okie. I would look online, don’t have a library card and may never return the book
I don’t like real potatos and don’t have have mixer to make them mashed but if i can get one id sure try it! i know they are better for you. Doritos are only on occasion. And i will try to cut back on the cheese. how long should it take to see results? with eatting like this and doing a decent work out of either running 30 min 3-4 days a week or running 3-4 days a week 30 min and doing a work out dvd 20-45 mins also?
library cards are free
. I think you should spend a couple days weighing and measuring your food, and writing down how many calories are in everything you are currently eating. I think you will be very surprised by how many calories are in things like mac n cheese.
If you really clean up your diet you should be able to lose 1-2 pounds a week, but there is no way for me to predict what kind of results you will have.
Bells is right too..
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i know. i know that it can’t be good but when you dont have a lot of money and you need something to fill ya up…
Tried counting calories…way to hard lol so i just wanna eat better things.
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I don’t know that you need a mixer for mashed. potatoes. I think mixers may be discouraged because they overmix.
Coincidentally, I just picked up a potato masher from a garage sale on Saturday for (drum roll, please) FREE!
Even that, you don’t need, use a large fork. That’s what I’ve been doing.
LOL mixer for potatoes?. Buy a potato masher and work that elbow!!!! I bought mine at Walmart for $3.00, you can use it to make mashed cauliflower as a mashed potato alternative; 100 different uses for it…
lose the. spaghetti, tuna noodles, mac and cheese, instant potatoes. those are all full of fast-digesting carbs. if you must have pasta cut back a lot on the portion size (a serving of pasta is 1/2 cup, almost nothing) and switch to whole wheat. real potatoes are cheaper and healthier than instant. switch the canned veg for fresh or frozen (more nutrients, less sodium). instead of boxed sides, cook some brown rice in low sodium broth and use spices/herbs to season it. it’s a lot cheaper and healthier to buy a big bag of plain rice than it is to buy those packages.
fresh veggies that are usually cheap are lettuce, celery, carrots, cabbage, beets, potatoes, sweetpotatoes, cucumbers, onions, turnips, squash…
When looking for recipes. I use allrecipes.com how do i know what healthy what should i be looking for and staying away from besides cards, noodles, cheese, rice, potatos…
Have you been to the website of the world’s. healthiest foods?
http://www.whfoods.com/
Try to find recipes that incorporate these items. There are also recipes on that site.
start by knowing proper portion sizes. It doesn’t sound like you eat terrible foods, but you may be eating a lot of them.
Start by reading the nutrition labels on the back of packages and look up portion sizes for things like meat and vegetables online. Start measuring out everything you eat. Write down what you’ve eaten and at what time, and how many calories, fat, protein and carbs are in each thing.
Look back through your food log after a few weeks. You might start to realize things like: you don’t stay full for very long after eating 1 cup of mac-n-cheese, even though it has a very high number of calories; a big bag of popcorn makes you feel more full than a small handful of pretzels for the same number of calories. Etc.
Once you discover these trends for yourself, you can start making food choices that are right for you.
yep Krip is right. I do that now and. thought I’d never, never measure my food or count calories. But I do and it’s working!!!!
side boxes of noodles & rice are$$$
I went shopping yesterday and spent $46. and only $13 of it was all fresh vegis and some fruit. this will last me for more than a week. The rest was chicken, ground turkey, eggs, cottage cheese 2% I am going to make my own blu cheese dressing with low fat sour cream, low fat cream cheese, fat free milk with some spices. I can’t wait to try it.
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making a list…. for when i look @ recipes
stay away from
potatos
rice
cheese
mayo
noodles/pasta
eat
fresh veggies
meats
fruits
What about?
sour cream
any seasonings? or breading crums?
what about peanut butter and jelly….
well for me this sounds great. that’s pretty much what I eat now. But I don’t use breading or sour cream. But I am making my own blu cheese dressing with low fat sour cream but it’s only 1/4 cup for 2 cups of dressing. You can add eggs & cottage cheese 2% too. I use most any spices. I don’t eat jar peanut butter and no jelly. But do buy a little natural pb which is only ground peanuts. I only eat about 1-2 tbls on celery or warm it up in the microwave and dip apple slices in it. It’s pretty good
QUINOA!!!!. Its GREAT…2 to 1 ratio…hubby and I eat it all the time.
I use 1/4 cup quinoa and 1/2 cup water…plenty enough for two. Add a large salad and some fish and you have a $20.00 a plate at any high end bistro, but 1/3 the cost.