Any food ideas for low cal days?

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Pen1

10:24 pm
16 Mar 15
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Hi
I don’t know what to eat on my 500 cal days, I’m guessing a Mars bar and a yoghurt plus a glass of wine might not be a good idea!
I tried a sandwich and a banana and yoghurt which worked quite well, but wondered how others manage on their low cal days to make a meal out of so few cals.
Would love a few ideas.

fastdiet1115

10:32 pm
16 Mar 15
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Just started today so not an expert, although I have done IF previously pretty successfully.
Today I will break-fast at 2pm with a small snack of 1/4 cup of blueberries, 1 cup unsweetened vanilla almond milk and 1/2 oz of salami (I eat LCHF and want to get some fat in even on the IF days).
Dinner will be early (for us) around 6pm and will be 4 1/2 oz sockeye salmon grilled, 1/2 cup sweet potato with a small amount of real butter, and spinach dry sauteed and dressed with 1 tsp of sesame oil.

Comes in just a few cals over 500 for the day.

Pen1

11:10 pm
16 Mar 15
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I like the sound of the sweet potato, that’s a good idea. You’ve just given me another idea actually, baked potato with cottage cheese and a green salad would probably come in quite low too.
Thank you fastdiet1115.

Applepie

7:10 am
17 Mar 15
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Homemade vegetable soup is our staple meal. We have it for dinner on normal days and for our evening meal on fast days. Works a treat.

I use whatever veg is fresh and cheap on our local market. Start by frying an onion in a little olive oil. Add any combination of carrots, cauliflower, cabbage, celery etc, etc. Top up with vegetable stock and simmer for 25 mins. Blend with a stick blender, leaving a few chunks. You can add lentils, beans, tiny pasta anything you like. Just make sure it is quite watery on fast days. Enjoy!

Cath2907

9:15 am
18 Mar 15
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I skip breakfast, have a packet cuppa-soup for lunch (roughly 100kcal). I tend to go fish (baked salmon with Cajun spices or king prawns) with stir fry veg with soy sauce. This normally comes out at around 350kcal leaving me 50kcal for a hot chocolate before bed to make me feel full.

Cath2907

9:16 am
18 Mar 15
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Oh to add I also find a baked sweet potato and something (normally fish or chicken ) to also be great. Baked in skin with salt on they are delicious and a small baked sweet pot + small fish fillet + spinach with a little toasted garlic is really rather nice!

HKW

9:37 am
18 Mar 15
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I’m on week 4, trying to stick to 500 cals a day, and I tend to have:

Breakfast:
Small pot of zero fat natural Greek yoghurt with 30g of frozen mixed berries
OR
1 boiled egg mashed onto a Ryvita

Lunch:
Half a carton of vegetable soup (not sure where you are but in the UK the New Covent Garden fresh soups range is great) with 2 x Ryvita (no spread)

Dinner:
2-egg omelette (fried in low-cal cooking spray)
About a finger-size chunk of low-fat Feta cheese
A tablespoon or so of microwaves frozen leaf-spinach

For a snack, sugar-free jelly is great, or a corn-cake or rice-cake.