What other easy to prepare food is good for weight gain/fat loss?

Glacier

I'm trying to lose weight & become more toned, I eat a lot of cheese & chicken fillets but this can get boring. What other easy to prepare food is good for protein but little fat? What other good meats, I hate salads?

StormWarrior

Prawns. Don't take any cooking but are expensive. Eggs?

davyjose

Stay off the cheese - it's high fat/high sodium. Chicken, turkey, eggs - any kind of seafood or lean meat really.
You don't need to eat salads to lose weight. But you do need to eat healthily (and even if you didn't, you should). So find out what vege's you like - tomatoes? peas? - and eat a lot of them. They're good for filling up on.
Recently I was quite hungry, and felt like doing damage to some food, I was tempted to eat something big and greasy, but instead I simply ate an entire punnet of cherry tomatoes. I was stuffed afterwards, and when I went to see how many calories I'd eaten I was amazed to see it was < 100.

yeah-buddy

milk milk milk just drink loads of it preferably skimmed

timetogetfit

PROTEINS

Chicken breast
Turkey breast
Lean ground turkey
Swordfish
Orange roughy
Haddock
Salmon
Tuna
Crab
Lobster
Shrimp
Top round steak
Top sirloin steak
Lean ground beef
Buffalo
Lean ham
Egg whites or substitutes
Trout
Low-fat cottage cheese
Wild-game meat

CARBS

Baked potato
Sweet potato
Yams
Squash
Pumpkin
Steamed brown rice
Steamed wild rice
Pasta
Oatmeal
Barley
Beans
Kidney beans
Corn
Strawberries
Melon
Apple
Orange
Fat-free yogurt
Whole-wheat bread
High-fiber cereal
Whole-wheat Tortilla
Whole grains

VEG

Broccoli
Asparagus
Lettuce
Carrots
Cauliflower
Green beans
Green peppers
Mushrooms
Spinach
Tomato
Peas
Brussels sprouts
Artichoke
Cabbage
Celery
Zucchini
Cucumber
Onion

FATS

Avocado
Sunflower seeds
Pumpkin seeds
Cold-water fish
Natural peanut butter
Low-sodium nuts
Olives and olive oil
Safflower oil
Canola oil
Sunflower oil
Flax seed oil

VEG PROTEIN

Tempeh
Seitan
Tofu
Texturized vegetable protein
Soy foods
Veggie burgers


Fats to Avoid

Butter
Fried foods
Mayonnaise
Sweets
Whole-fat dairy products

rubadub

davyjose wrote: »

Recently I was quite hungry, and felt like doing damage to some food, I was tempted to eat something big and greasy, but instead I simply ate an entire punnet of cherry tomatoes. I was stuffed afterwards,

I do the same. I can come home drunk and could scoff anything. I wolf down tins of peas, or beans- very filling and low in calories. They are also bland and easy on the stomach so you wake up feeling better, slowly digesting it overnight, give the stomach acid something to act on.

I eat a lot of wafer thin ham in the daytime lately. Just use iceberg lettuce as a wrap with a little salad cream.

OP- go to the asian markets and get a load of spices for the chicken to mix things up a bit.

Glacier

Is too much Milk not fattening? I was told red meat was not good, is Surloin steak ok? Is too much cheese bad?

davyjose

Glacier wrote: »

Is too much Milk not fattening? I was told red meat was not good, is Surloin steak ok? Is too much cheese bad?

Well cheddar cheese is typically in the region of 30-40% fat and much of that is saturated, so it's not ideal.
http://www.nutritiondata.com/facts-C00001-01c2008.html
Red meat isn't too bad depending on how lean it is - its probably better than cheese. To be honest as long as you carb/fat/protein proportions are good, and your keeping within your daily cal intake, then no unprocessed food is going to be very bad.

rubadub

Glacier wrote: »

Is too much Milk not fattening? I was told red meat was not good, is Surloin steak ok? Is too much cheese bad?

Too much of any food will be fattening! that would be many peoples definition of "too much".

I trim fat off my steaks and fry in little or no oil.

Glacier

What about ordinary EasySingles cheese slices not cheddar, are they ok?

BraziliaNZ

Everything in moderation my dears.
I find the easiest way to get a load of protein into you is cans of tuna. For lunch I have a can of tuna chunks in a pita bread with a little bit of cheese, some hot chilli sauce, and a little hummus. Can you buy hummus in Eire?
Porridge for breakfast is your only man.

rubadub

StormWarrior wrote: »

Prawns. Don't take any cooking but are expensive.

Tesco do frozen prawns cheap enough. Usually they have "value" ones, and normal tesco brand ones are usually 2 packs for €5 or 2 for 1 or something, it seems to be an ongoing offer. Think it works out €8 per kilo.

unreggd

Is a litre of low fat milk a day too much?

easy way to get 35g of protein!

richy

how many of ye believe in the 3 cans of tuna a week deal?? i read numerous times that mercury is high in tuna so its dangerous too eat too much but its such a good source of protein i kinda ignore it!!tuna cheese melt with mayo...mmmmm:D

flywheel

richy wrote: »

i read numerous times that mercury is high in tuna so its dangerous too eat too much but its such a good source of protein i kinda ignore it!!

yeah it comes up here pretty regulalry [ref: search forum: tuna mercury], it's higher in some than others, and there are specific advisories about levels of consumption, here's one thread about it if you want to look into it more:
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=54114911#post54114911

Froot

richy wrote: »

how many of ye believe in the 3 cans of tuna a week deal?? i read numerous times that mercury is high in tuna so its dangerous too eat too much but its such a good source of protein i kinda ignore it!!tuna cheese melt with mayo...mmmmm:D

I eat 5-6 cans a week for the last few years and I'm grand.

I love tuna

rubadub

unreggd wrote: »

Is a litre of low fat milk a day too much?

easy way to get 35g of protein!

I am on about a litre of skim milk these days. Think it is 46kcal per 100ml, so 460kcal in the litre. Low fat milk is still 1.5-2%, and as you are drinking it by the kilo it adds up- 20g fat. You get used to skim milk quick, also if you find it a tad watery you could add a smidgen of whey.

Skim milk is also a little higher in protein than whole milk.

Roper

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055188656&highlight=tuna+mercury

Only cos I did a funny in this thread...

Jimmy Bottlehead

Roper wrote: »

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055188656&highlight=tuna+mercury

Only cos I did a funny in this thread...

In fairness, it was a quality funny!