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Originally Posted by napper
If you don't mind would you give me some ideas of a day in the life of Kate (food wise of course). I seem to have the most trouble with snacking.
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Hi Cheryl
,
I'd be glad to give you some ideas
! Please bear in mind though that I still have yet to tackle the Vegetable Monster -- meaning, I
seriously struggle to eat even ONE serving a day, much less five! And as for snacking, I snack all day! Seriously. That way I'm never starving at meal times and it keeps my metabolism humming along nicely
. I'll put the times that I snack in (below) and then make a list at the bottom of what I snack on.
By the way, I also can't cook. At all
. If it can't be prepared on a George Foreman grill, I don't eat it
. So nothing here will be fancy! (And PS: I know many people think Special K isn't the best choice of cereal, but I really like it -- it's always been a struggle for me to actually EAT breakfast, so I need something yummy to get me started).
Okay...here's a normal day for me:
Breakfast
- 1 cup tea w/ fat free milk + Splenda
- 1 bowl Special K w/fat free milk + Splenda
- OR (100%) whole wheat toast w/almond butter
- OR protein shake w/banana + pear blended in
- apple or banana
Snack #1 -- 9:00 or 10:00am
Lunch
- tuna sandwich on (100%) whole wheat bread
- OR sometimes just the tuna (if I was carb-heavy the day before)
- baby carrots
- apple or banana
- (sometimes) Nabisco 100 calorie pack of peanut butter cookies
Snack #2 -- 1:00 or 2:00pm
Snack #3 -- 3:00 or 4:00pm
Dinner
- 1 or 2 Quorn cutlets
- OR 2 Boca burgers
- OR a 6 oz steak
- OR a 6 oz salmon filet
- (sometimes) string beans or baby carrots or corn-on-the-cob
Snack #4 -- 8:00 or 9:00pm
As I said, I eat a lot of snacks! Sometimes it's even more than this -- like driving to work/school around 8am or so. Here's what I eat for snacks (obviously, only one of these = a snack at any one time!) I specifically try to get in at least 2 of the protein-heavy snacks (cheese, cottage cheese, etc.) a day. My goal is 100 grams of protein a day and the snacks really help out with that.
Snacks
- apple
- banana
- protein shake
- low-fat string cheese
- cottage cheese (small tub)
- no-sugar-added tapioca pudding (small tub)
- Nabisco 100 calorie packs (peanut butter cookies, Ritz snack mix, etc.)
- baby carrots
- green/red peppers sliced up
- nuts (almonds, walnuts, cashews = "best" but still should be limited)
- Wasa crisp bread
It's pretty basic, and I'm sure many people would prefer fancier stuff, but it works for me
.