Healthy Eating and Recipes

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.

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.

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