Often throughout the day, I want to eat something. But it is not time for a regular meal. So I try to eat healthy low fat snacks.
One of my favorite snacks are bananas. Fruits make great low fat snacks. Oranges are another one of my favorites. I also enjoy apples, but they are harder to eat with my braces. I would need to slice them up.
Another snack that I eat often (usually when I am at home) are small potatoes. I will slice them into quarters, sprinkle a little salt on them. Yummy.
For late night snacks, I will maybe eat a fat free pudding from Jello. These are really good! I have tried most of the available flavors so far, and have liked them all. The tapioca and the chocolate/vanilla are my favorites so far. But I limit myself to one an evening. I don’t want to load up on these, as there are healthier things I can be eating.
Another thing I will eat while at home is fat-free cottage cheese with pineapple. I get these at the local grocery store, and they are really good! 10 grams of protein, and 17 grams of carbs per serving!!! Yummy!
Last night, I ate a couple of tuna sandwiches made with Hellman’s reduced fat mayonnaise. I love mayonnaise, but unfortunately, mayonnaise is almost pure fat! The reduced fat mayonnaise is not as good as regular mayo, but it is decent enough. It tastes okay mixed in with the tuna.
But whatever you choose to snack on, make sure it is low fat!!! Try not to pick something that is pure sugar either. It is okay to eat sweets in SMALL quantities. When I was losing most of my weight, I had Jolly Rancher candies in my desk drawer. And if I wanted something sweet, I would take a single candy, put it into my mouth, and just let it slowly dissolve. These days, I have a friend at work who has an M&M dispenser on his desk. I will go over there, and get a small handful of M&Ms. I will make a couple trips over there during the work day. I even bought him a couple bags of M&Ms to keep it filled. If I kept a bag of M&Ms at my own desk, it would be gone within a day and a half.
Lately I have been eating a Healthy Choice french bread pizza for breakfast. They are cheap, and easy to prepare in the microwave at work. We bought a bunch of em on sale for $1.25, and loaded our freezer with them. I prefer the Supreme, but will also eat the Pepperoni. I usually will also eat a banana or two as well. Sometimes when I am home, I will make some low fat scrambled eggs. I simply beat together one whole egg, and three or four egg whites, and a little salt and pepper. I will use a non-stick skillet, and spray a thin coat of vegetable oil. Then I will just make scrambled eggs as usual. The fat is all in the egg yoke, with almost nothing in the egg white. But I still leave in one yoke for the taste.
I haven’t tried it yet, but I was reading one suggestion for making toast. Just toast the bread as usual, then spray a thin coat of butter onto it. This will give you the butter taste, but the spray allows you to use only a small quantity of butter. I suppose you could make cinnamon toast by sprinkling on a little cinnamon and sugar on after the spray of butter.
Last night I made a great dinner for Valentines Day. It wasn’t completely low fat, but then it was a special occasion. You want to be careful, and not go insane trying to eat all low fat all the time! Pretty soon you are going to be binging on junk food.
So last night I made some filet mignon (very lean beef) with a thin pat of steak butter (butter with garlic, parsely, worchester sauce, etc in it) melted over the top. The butter was not low fat, but it is really good with the filet mignon! I also made some sauteed mushrooms (sauteed in a teaspoon of extra virgin olive oil), steamed broccoli, and boiled salt potatoes. I used Molly McButter on the potatoes and the broccoli. We also had a caesar salad, light on the dressing. For dessert my wife had made some chocolate dipped strawberries. These were really good.
Do we eat like this all the time? NO! But on special occasions, yes!
Today it is back to eating Healthy Choice entrees. So don’t feel bad to eat a good, not quite so low fat meal every once in a while! Don’t go overboard though!
I am trying to eat healthy, but sometimes it is hard due to limited time. It would be nice to be able to make healthy food, and take it to work, but that can be tough. Sometimes the only option is eating at a fast food restaurant. Finding healthy food at a fast restaurant can be be a challenge.
Subway is a good choice. They have a small selection of low fat sandwiches. My personal favorite is the Sweet Onion Chicken Teriyaki. I usually get it loaded up with lettuce, tomato, green peppers, black olives, and onion. Then I have it topped with sweet onion sauce. It is about 370 calories with onl 5 grams of fat or 45 calories coming from fat.
McDonalds is a terrible choice. You can get their Premium Grilled Chicken Classic sandwich. Its 420 calories with 10 grams of fat. Half of the fat comes from the mayonaise that they glop on there.
Burger King is also a terrible choice. I usually get the Tendergrill Chicken sandwich. I thought it was healthier because it had honey mustand instead of glopped on mayanaise. But looking up the nutritional data, it also has 10 grams of fat! Ouch! I guess it’s not healthier.
Wow! It’s a real eye opener to look at the nutritional info at these restaurants. The food is terrible healthwise!
Lately I have been taking Healthy Choice entrees to work, and heating them in the microwave. We bought a bunch of them on sale for $1.25 each, and loaded our freezer. So not only are they healthier than most of the fast food choices, they are also cheaper!
This stuff is great! I originally read about Molly McButter years ago when I was playing around doing some body building. The body builders who want to have a low body fat percentage would use it. Butter is almost pure fat! Who needs that! I like the taste of butter, but I can certainly live without all the extra fat. Where I usually use it is on potatoes. I will boil up some salt potatoes, or maybe bake a potato. I either slice, or mash up the cooked potatoes. Then I just sprinkle a little Molly McButter on to the warm potato, and mix it in. Yummy! It tastes just like butter, but is only a few calories. It seems to work best with warm and moist foods. And the container is a small shaker, perfect to take with you to a restaurant.