sundaymorningstaple wrote:In fact, while I'm cooking my dinner, I'm also preparing my breakfast and lunch for the next day. I eat a Veg Omelet for breakfast with a 1 inch ring of Papaya from a decent/large papaya and a cup of Black English Tea. For lunch I eat a salad usually comprised of lettuce, capsicum, cucumber, tomato, raw mushroom and either tuna (one can, drained is just about 135 grams), boiled chicken or Prawns. I just throw them in the bowl in the fridge and in the morning it's quick to beat the egg and throw in the vegetables (Tomato, Capsicum & Mushrooms & occasionally onions). I use a biokips locking container for my lunch and it's quick, easy and as mentioned, rather inexpensive. I still have no carbs for breakfast or lunch and rarely for dinner but occasionally I'll have some cookies/crackers in the evenings but I try not to as it causes me to have carb cravings.
Another thing, never have carbs for breakfast unless you are exercising shortly afterwards as carbs first thing in the morning will give you an insulin spike and at 9:30~10:00 am you will have to have a carb snack (UFOs are what I call them - Unidentified Fried Objects).
Ah. Thanks for the idea on what to put on a veggie omelette. More often, I just do tuna or some chopped tomatoes. Then put that on multigrain bread with some lettuce--ok, maybe LOTS of lettuce (gotta use up the iceberg before it goes bad). When I feel like indulging, maybe a slice of cheese or some avocado.
Funnily enough, when I do lapse and have fried rice (I know) for breakfast, I have it with some egg. The egg makes me full even into lunch time--no carb cravings (I checked other combinations; it was definitely the egg).
Then again, I've also been getting a lot of exercise so it's alright.