Okay, I'm on a snack-all-day diet and am always looking for ideas for meals or snacks that are between 200 and 250 calories (give or take a few calories). Here are some of my ideas -- please share yours!
Sue’s Frap – 1 cup 1% milk, 2 T Caffe D’Vita mocha mix, Splenda to taste, ice – whirl in blender (approx. 230 calories)
Weight Control Banana Bread oatmeal w/ 1/2 T mini chocolate chips
½ Apple sliced w/ 1 1/2 T Peanut Butter
Weight Watchers key lime pie
French toast made with 2 slices of Nature's Own 50 calories per slice whole wheat bread, 1 egg, vanilla, and cinnamon topped w/ low calorie pancake syrup
Lt. Cream Cheese w/ salsa or pepper jelly w/ either baked Tostito Scoops or crackers
¼ cup Tostitos queso dip w/ baked tortilla (Scoops) chips
Red bell pepper and asparagus w/ Tostito spinach dip
Meal replacement bars (I love Odwalla bars in Choco-walla and Banana Nut flavors)
Poultry, beef, pork, or seafood with veggies and/or fruit
Ground turkey or beef patty sans the bun
Cucumber sandwich -- 2 slices of 50 calorie whole wheat bread, 1/4 cup of Philadelphia whipped garlic and herb cream cheese and thin cucumber slices
2 Hebrew National 97% fat-free hot dogs on one light bun with mustard and 1 Tbsp sweet relish
1/4 cup Peanut or Raspberry Almond M&Ms, or Goobers
Hummus w/ carrot sticks or pita
100 calorie pack – your fave – mine are Cheez-Its, Pepperidge Farm Chessman, and Chocolate Chunk cookies
Cottage Cheese w/ pineapple
Diet Devilled eggs
Tuna sandwich (small 3 oz. can albacore tuna, lt. mayo and dell relish on Nature’s Own whole wheat bread)
2 eggs & 2 slices bacon (I use Boar's Head pre-cooked bacon)
½ sesame bagel with lt. cream cheese
Grilled cheese – made with diet bread, 2 slices 2% American cheese slices, and 1 tsp butter
Sandwich with turkey, ham and honey mustard – use diet bread
Mini taco salad
Strawberry pancakes – whole grain frozen Aunt Jemima pancakes topped with fresh or frozen strawberries sweetened with Splenda
Fruit & cheese
BLT
Oatmeal or cereal with milk
Back to Nature Banana Walnut Bakery Squares
Turkey sandwich with cranberry aioli
Diet Chicken Piccata
Diet Chicken Cacciatore
Breakfast sundaes -- made with yogurt, nuts and berries
Eating out: -- I rarely eat out, but when I do, here are my options:
1 slice of a small Papa John’s pizza
Shrimp cocktail
Subway mini sandwich
BBQ chicken -- light on the BBQ sauce and steamed veggies
Taco Bell Fresco Ranchero Soft Chicken Taco
1/2 serving Olive Garden’s Venetian Apriot Chicken -- this comes with two chicken breast halves. I eat one and half the veggies and bring the remainder home for another meal