Reply to How do you all get enough fiber?

Forum Index » Diet, Nutrition & Weight Loss

Reply to "How do you all get enough fiber?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]Thanks to the 1200 calories for a week thread, I started a food log and am tracking calories (I'm not aiming for 1200, but was inspired by it). One thing that has surprised me is that I'm apparently not getting anywhere near the 25 grams of fiber recommended for a woman of my age.

Here are some examples of my recent days. Where would you pack in more fiber without going too crazy on calories? I'm right at what I am aiming for - 1400-1500 - so want to be careful with just adding food.

Breakfast: 1/2 cup oats, 1/2 cup whole milk, 1/4 cup chopped strawberries, 1 tbsp peanut butter
Lunch: salad with romaine lettuce, celery, cucumber, shredded carrots, one hard boiled egg, 3 oz shredded chicken, 2 tbsp yogurt-based dressing.  1/4 cup homemade full-fat yogurt, 1 tbsp honey, 1 tbsp sliced almonds.
Dinner: grilled pork chop, 1 cup roasted broccoli with olive oil, 1/2 cup mashed potatoes

Breakfast: 2 hard boiled eggs, banana
Lunch: triscuit thins, smoked salmon, cheese, celery sticks, apple slices
Dinner: spinach salad with strawberries and mandarin oranges, olive oil and balsamic. Soup with meatballs, white beans, chard, and chicken broth (homemade bone broth). Slice of sourdough with butter.

I thought that was a pretty healthy menu - and it does well on calories, carbs, protein, healthy fats,  etc ... but is apparently really low on fiber. What would you substitute?
Eliminating the sourdough with butter to use those calories on something more nutritious is probably the most obvious, (but really sad).
Beans instead of chicken in the salad?
What else?[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics