Protein tips for a light to non-cooker
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Anonymous
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I’m trying to get 100g of protein a day and am having trouble. Can anyone share easy ideas? I’m not a big cooker so making a chicken breast at lunch to put on a salad seems like it would take too long.
But-I tend to then lean towards eating a protein bar and shake to get in more protein and I’m thinking they’re not helping me lose weight. I need to be around 1100 calories a day or less. I’m very short and 50. Easy ideas? |
Anonymous
| I would make several chicken breasts at once on the weekend and have it available for lunches during the week. Or buy a rotisserie chicken but they have more fat. You could also have eggs or Turkey lunch meat. |
Anonymous
| Making fish is easy and I can’t cook. 11 minutes at 400. |
Anonymous
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Bean salads
Icelandic or greek yogurt this chicken beast recipe is great -- https://www.gimmesomeoven.com/baked-chicken-breast/ |
Anonymous
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Nuts — add to cereal or salads or have nut butter on sandwich
Hard boiled eggs Tofu Cottage cheese Greek yogurt |
Anonymous
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Right now I’ve got a sale multi-pack of chicken breast in my slow cooker with some seasonings, pepper flakes, and some apple cider vinegar and making a huge pot of pulled chicken. It took about five minutes to throw it all in and in four hours I will shred it up and have chicken for the week. Can put it over salad, over brown rice, in a sandwich. Another thing to do is poach the chicken breasts on the stove (simmer in stock) and have them in the fridge for cutting up.
How much weight do you have to lose? I’m about your age recently got some bad lab work and have hypertension. Because I have always had an intolerance for wheat, I cut all wheat out of my diet and put such a huge limit on sodium (most ingredients should have no sodium and no thing with more than 100mg) that trying to find things like that are really hard and most things taste like not much. I don’t eat out any more. So I dont eat very much and have lost 20 pounds in two months. I eat a lot of vegetables and beans and will eat many kinds of meat. I do this because I probably should lose 70 pounds total. If you think you need to just lose about 10 or 20, what you’re doing probably will backfire. Shoot for 1200-1500, and cut out white foods and sugar. And if you are eating “salad”, most dressings are worse than eating a pile of fries. Read all the labels. |
Anonymous
DP. This sounds exactly what I need to do. Would you mind sharing your recipe for the chicken, specifically the seasonings besides the red pepper? |
Anonymous
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Buy a rotisserie chicken.
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Anonymous
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Canned chicken, tuna, boneless salmon, etc. are convenient, but they do have a lot of sodium.
Nuts/seeds as a snack or incorporated into something else. For example, I like walnuts and berries in my oatmeal and I make ramen with Asian/stirfry vegetables and sunflower seeds with Trader Joe’s furikake seasoning on top. Sometimes I’ll add some canned tuna. Eggs - I scramble eggs in the microwave and mix with whatever veggies and seasonings I’m in the mood for. Microwaved eggs suffer a little in quality, especially if you don’t pay attention and overcook them. The convenience is worth it to me. Hard/soft boiled eggs are really easy to do on the stove, or you can buy eggs that are pre-boiled. I’ve heard of sprinkling nutritional yeast on food like cheese, but I haven’t tried it yet, so I’m not sure if that would be helpful. |
Anonymous
| I’m vegetarian and so my protein isn’t cooked usually. It’s primarily Greek yogurt (I eat that nearly daily), nuts, lentils (need to commit but can make a huge vat of lentil soup and eat it throughout the week), and beans (again, easy to cook ahead and eat in many forms). Eggs, too, but you can scramble eggs in minutes on the stove (and add some cheese for more protein). |
Anonymous
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I love deviled eggs. Buying the pre-cooked boiled eggs at the store and whipping up some deviled eggs has helped me with this.
I also occasionally buy cooked shrimp from the store and have a shrimp cocktail for a snack. It's an expensive snack, but there is protein. I will also go through phases where I get a chocolate protein powder from Whole Foods and make smoothies with almond milk, protein powder, and either half a frozen banana or a handful of frozen cherries. The choc cherry flavor is my fave, but choc banana is good too. I get sick of them though, so often go for long periods without protein smoothies. |
Anonymous
I’m kind of riffing on this recipe - for chicken, you don’t need to brown anything, just throw it all in a slow cooker. Adding red pepper flakes to this gives in more oomph. https://thedefineddish.com/apple-cider-vinegar-pulled-pork/ |
Anonymous
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I eat a ton of Greek yogurt to make up my protein. I don’t have a target, but dinners tend to be without meat and given my activity profile I need more protein. I eat it at breakfast and also as my night snack. Love that stuff.
Fage tends to be more “solid” and Chobani and Whole Foods branded tends to be more runny, like ice cream sort of. |
Anonymous
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A fully cooked and still hot whole chicken at WF cost less than a single bottle of cold pressed juice.
Have chicken the first night, cut it up for a salad the next day, put the rest in a pasta the third day. |
Anonymous
| Whey protein shakes. |