Healthy Eating and Recipes

Well, if you are looking to lose weight, then just focus on the food, because it will help you to lose 70% of the weight. 
You can take below foods to loose weight easily.

• Chicken breast (skinless)

• Turkey breast

• Salmon

• Eggs

• Greek yogurt (unsweetened)

• Cottage cheese

• Lentils

• Black beans

• Oats

• Quinoa

• Brown rice

• Apples

• Berries (strawberries, blueberries, raspberries)

• Pears

• Carrots

• Broccoli

• Spinach

• Zucchini

• Nuts (almonds, walnuts - small portions)

• Avocado (in moderation)

On behalf of my personal experiences, I will also suggest you do GYM, normal exercises, and yoga, which will also help you to lose weight and stay healthy.

Thanks

TheCatWoman said:

but crispy, the smell, the sound of it crunching and feel of it shattering in my mouth was a total nasty overload

I'm the other way. I get a pleasure overload with crispy things.

ThornPixie said:

can force myself to eat cucumber

Maybe you are one of those people with the gene that makes cucumbers taste bitter. You can google the "bitter fruit gene" and see if anything rings a bell. Maybe you just weren't made to eat some foods.

The texture. I’ll add like onion powder to stuff, but won’t eat crispy onions either… but I think that’s more me associating them with normal onions so my brain says nope. I do eat the finely chopped onions on a Big Mac though

I don't ike sweetcorn and coleslaw gives me such terrible wind. I love swede but unfortunately it no longer loves me. I'm quite limited in what I can eat due to allergies and intollerances and I don't think I'd be any help to you as from your list you don't like the things I love.

Textures in foods are a bit strange, for example when I did eat meat, I couldn't stand crispy bacon, I was never a huge fan at the best of times, but crispy, the smell, the sound of it crunching and feel of it shattering in my mouth was a total nasty overload. I never liked crackling for the same reason, or crispy skin on anything. If I ate meat it would either have to be a stew where it was falling off the bone, or still have blood coming out of it, just cooked to the right side of wanting to drag it under the table and sit growling over it.

Is it the tast or the texture of onions you dislike?

If you like cooked broccoli & swede and grated carrot, I'd say you are pretty grown up - Lots of kids don't like those. I still don't like grated carrot and I'm in my sixties!

We're all different and we all enjoy different tastes and textures. 

Thank you so much for the ideas also!

I love sweetcorn. I eat lettuce and can force myself to eat cucumber. I like a lot of cooked veggies, like carrots and swede, broccoli, the usuals, but not so much raw cause I prefer them soft haha. But I will eat grated carrot! It’s so annoying I wish I could just be a grown up and eat grown up things

Thank you!

I'm ok with tomatoes and mushrooms, but I have gone off peppers and onions as they give me bad indigestion. I don't like boiled vegetables either.

Do you like crunchy vegetables? What about coleslaw, sweetcorn, carrot sticks (raw or lightly cooked), salad with iceberg lettuce, raw cauliflower florets, cucumber and radishes, a stir fry with bean sprouts & water chestnuts, or roasted parsnips?

Protein is important, and if you're trying to lose weight meat or vegetarian protein (without breadcrumbs or batter) in your main meal is ideal. Minced beef or pork can be dry fried without oil and any fat that comes out can be drained off before adding a sauce. If you're not good at making sauces, you can add passata with herbs or one of the jars of sauces - you can get some with hidden veg in now. If you can't stomach meat, try the quorn alternatives. You  could also replace potatoes with extra veg, or have noodles or sweet potato instead.

For lunches, you could replace bread with crunchy seeded ryvita with a topping of your choice, or have a ham, tuna or cheese salad without tomato in, or a wrap.

Natural yogurt is good for breakfast - you can add a small portion of high fibre cereal, some oats, or some fruit to it.

For snacks, you could have cheese chunks with some chopped fruit such as apple or melon, a handful of nuts, or a small portion of vegetable crisps.

Good luck and hope you can create a diet plan which works for you.

Damojo said:

1 calorie per bucketful (very approx.)

I can just imagine this written on the back of a can of soup lol

I understand what you mean by "slimy" when it comes to, say, roasted peppers and onions, etc. There are other ways of cooking them, though. 

This soup recipe was recommended to me and I really like it. (I'm salivating at the thought already.) It's quick to make and contains most of your "favourites" (not). There is absolutely nothing "slimy" about it though, so give it a go. The flavour is not at all what you might expect. It is very light and probably has about 1 calorie per bucketful (very approx.). I normally make a double batch.

Red Pepper Soup

Ingredients

• 1 small onion (chopped)
• 1 clove of garlic (chopped)
• ½ head of celery (chopped)
• 1 red pepper (deseeded & chopped)
• 1 tin chopped tomatoes
• 600 ml chicken or vegetable stock
• 1 tbsp olive oil
• ¼ tsp oregano
• ¼ tsp chilli flakes (or one fresh red chilli, chopped)
• 1 tsp sugar
• salt (to taste)
• freshly ground black pepper (to taste)

Method

1. Don't worry too much about the chopping, you'll be blending this anyway.
2. Fry the onion and garlic in the oil until soft.
3. Add the chopped celery, red pepper and fresh chilli (if using) and fry for a few minutes.
4. Add your herbs, spices, sugar, chopped tomatoes and stock.
5. Simmer gently for 10 minutes.
6. Blend as smooth as you like it.
7. Check your seasoning.
8. Enjoy.

Thank you so much! 

One person in our household doesn't like slimy or too soft vegetables or foods - with a range of things avoided including: onions, tomatoes, peppers, mushrooms, sweet potato, aubergine and courgette.

However, if I make soup with equal quantities (225 g) of chopped carrot and courgette, chicken stock cube and water, 50 g butter, 2 tablespoons of tomato puree, 1 level tablespoon of sugar, 1/2 tsp dried mixed herbs and a pince of ground white pepper - then use a stick blender at the end to make a smooth soup - that is popular (and it freezes well too - which is handy if you are a small household).

I have also found if a dish needs the savoury taste of onion (without the slimy texture of it) - I can substitute "1 onion, chopped" with 1 rounded tablespoon of dried onion flakes - and everyone is happy.

If there are "borderline softer textured" vegetables like butternut squash and swede - if I peel them, plus carrots and chop them all into large pieces, put them on an oven tray, toss them in 2 tablespoons of sunflower oil, then roast them at 160 Deg. C in a fan oven for 45 minutes - those vegetables prove popular served with previously cooked chicken as you had described.

Here is a chicken soup recipe to consider (it has a short video too):

Soothing chicken and pearl barley soup"

By Dr Saliha Mahmood-Ahmed

https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/turmeric_chicken_soup_36075

Hope those things give you some ideas.