Low calorie meal ideas (400 cals)

[Floridatilly]

Apart from salad I am hopeless at thinking of, and making low calorie meals.
I am doing MH’s weight loss for charity 👍🏻
I am not following a diet as such but aim to eat less calories because I eat far too many. I want to eat 400 calories in each meal; breakfast, lunch and dinner then have fruit etc as snacks.
I am fine with breakfast but lunch and dinner are my stumbling blocks unless I live on salad for the next 4 months 🙈

[Guest]

Can't help you with recipes unfortunately, but would like to learn alongside you please 🙂

[Anne]

My Fitness Pal have loads.

[sparklegirl]

Pinch of Nom has a great cookbook that has recipes for under 400 cal. Their website has loads too

pinchofnom/

[sotagals]

Cut up whatever vegetables you like and put them in a pan with a bit of boiling water (in the bottom, not to cover) and add whatever flavouring you like.

I use garlic, ginger (asda frozen) soy sauce, Worcestershire sauce and chilli plus a bit of tomato paste.

Put the lid on and cook on lowest heat until veg is done.

Keep an eye so it doesn't dry out or you can add more liquid to make it a broth base for noodles.

[Floridatilly]

I know my main issue is portion size. I use large plates and pile them high. 🙈🙈

[Princess Alison]

The hairy dieter books are excellent for calorie counting.

We lost a lot of weight using them.

Now we are on the keto diet, so they aren't right for that, but I'd recommend.

[sassysar]

The tempura fish is nice and about 250 cals , small potato chipped with a spray of low cal oil
Measured 100 cals of pasta with small chicken breast done in tomatoe and garlic and onion and pepper
Homemade turkey burger ( lots of seasoning as turkey mince can be bland ) small bread roll
Salmon done in the oven in foil with lemon slice and seasoning
To be honest if we are eating like this ,a salad pads out most meals and makes your plate look fuller

[GoldenAvalanche]

I prefer to skip breakfast, have a light lunch 200-400 calories (jacket potato, or small bowl of granola, oats etc) and save the calories for a more substantial ‘normal’ main meal (still careful with my portion size though), I find this easier for meal planning for the family as I don’t cook separate meals and I live with 3 males!

[EssexSue]

Originally Posted by GoldenAvalanche

I prefer to skip breakfast, have a light lunch 200-400 calories (jacket potato, or small bowl of granola, oats etc) and save the calories for a more substantial ‘normal’ main meal (still careful with my portion size though), I find this easier for meal planning for the family as I don’t cook separate meals and I live with 3 males!

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Yes I'm going to wean myself off breakfast and go back to 16/8. It's an easy way of cutting down and actually very good for your body as it has time to heal itself while not digesting food.