Easy lunch ideas?
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+1 to make lots of soup and freeze it in portions.
I also do this with ratatouille (which I suspect I can't spell), and a thing called "courgette slice" which is just a good way of using up courgettes from our veg box (my boyfriend doesn't like them, I do, but I do sometimes wish we didn't get them quite so often!)
Otherwise I have lots of salad and fruit.
I also do this with ratatouille (which I suspect I can't spell), and a thing called "courgette slice" which is just a good way of using up courgettes from our veg box (my boyfriend doesn't like them, I do, but I do sometimes wish we didn't get them quite so often!)
Otherwise I have lots of salad and fruit.
gbb
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For your circumstances, i won't disagree
...but...I'm on my feet or walking round the plant most of the day...i just ache to sit down for half an hour
,Now, getting out of the building...i'd go with that regardless. Fat chance though.
Over The Hill
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Not being critical but just interested.
I eat a fair bit of fruit and veg but overall in my diet I find there is a limit. Do you have some carb with the soup and if not why not?
On the OP, generally if people are living on whatever is in the vending machine at work then a switch to a high fruit and veg diet will be a bit too much all at once.
I would go with just cutting down the fat, processed food and sugar and making smaller changes.
Also what you taste changes and an overload of salty and fatty food will then make fruit and veg taste a bit bland or sour.
So many people seem to go on some odd diet and suffer for a couple of weeks and then go back to their bad ways. I think it sticks better by making small changes and taking small steps (for example 1. No sugar in drinks or sweet drinks, 2. No butter or spread on anything). Each small step is quite easy to cope with and as you then change your taste it is hard to go back.
Drago
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Protein shake laced with 5mg of L-Glutamine, plenty of raw carrots and maybe an apple is my typical work lunch. Tastes like crap if I'm honest.
Fair point. As you say, I was sat down most of the day at the same desk, so the activity was good. Mainly though it was to get out of the immediate work environment and flush out my brain, which IMO is valuable....but...
I'm on my feet or walking round the plant most of the day...i just ache to sit down for half an hour
Now, getting out of the building...i'd go with that regardless. Fat chance though.
I did work with some people who would come in and stay at their desks all the way through, and their only downtime was to read a paper or play a PC game at lunchtime. That wasn't big and it wasn't clever.
Do you mean a roll or something? Not usually. My idea of soup is usually something that is very thick and filling, so I don't feel the need of anything else. I'll have an apple or so to fill up. I don't feel that I have a limit to how much fruit and veg I can eat! (Not that I am claiming any kind of perfection - I also visit the vending machine at work too much...
) I also like a big bowl of muesli for my breakfast.
zizou
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So do although i've had to cut back a bit after i weighed my portion size and found out it was 4 times what the recommended size was (40g)
threebikesmcginty
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It's OK, I've just had an extra thick layer of butter on a couple of soda farls to get the quota for the UK back on track due to the shortfall caused by this kind of piss-poor 'no butter' nonsense. An accompaniment to left-over chilli (made with Gran Luchito paste)..shlurp!
Over The Hill
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This is going to haunt me more than global warming!
You can give up butter and live!!
I was too fat (and too lazy to exercise more) and did not want to go on a fad diet. All I did was cut out most fat and sugar.
So that is skimmed milk on cerial, no milk in drinks, not much dairy but what i have is low fat. No butter or spread at all. Give it a few weeks and you find you really dont like fatty foods.
All sorts of things now taste too fatty (fish fingers, crisps, pate, fried food) and I dont ever fancy eating them.
longers
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I'm having a "bored with butties" period and have rediscovered tins of mackerel with couscous (especially since divvying up a kg bag and assaulting the spice rack works out at less than 15p a go).
But, is 5 tins of mackerel a week too much?
It'll only be for a month or two until I get bored of it but think I've seen recommendations to only eat 2 portions of oily fish per week.
But, is 5 tins of mackerel a week too much?
It'll only be for a month or two until I get bored of it but think I've seen recommendations to only eat 2 portions of oily fish per week.
MattHB
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On a Monday I make a big tub of the following, put it in the fridge and take a 5th of it every day in a pot.
A packet of uncle bens while grain express rice
Chopped mushrooms
Hienz mixed beans in spicy Tom sauce
A packet of cashews (increases calorie count a lot)
Packet of pumpkin seeds
Chopped celery
Chopped cooked chicken breast
A large dollop of salad cream (turns the spicy Tom sauce into a Marie Rose sauce)
A twist of pepper
A packet of uncle bens while grain express rice
Chopped mushrooms
Hienz mixed beans in spicy Tom sauce
A packet of cashews (increases calorie count a lot)
Packet of pumpkin seeds
Chopped celery
Chopped cooked chicken breast
A large dollop of salad cream (turns the spicy Tom sauce into a Marie Rose sauce)
A twist of pepper
I think the recommendation is to eat 2 portions, rather than to eat only 2 portions. The rationale being that people don't get enough Omega-3s otherwise. If you eat a lot more you will just end up brainier - like Jeeves.
Crikey. You should get together with Crankarm and go on that Raymond Blanc reality show.
