For a start romaine gem lettuce is a must for me.
The amount of yummy things you can do with a salad is amazing.
1) Tuna niscoise. Grab a small plate, add 2 large leaves of gem lettuce, and sprinkle half a tin of tuna down them. Add a boiled egg split in half. Red onion chopped into circles, couple of new baby potatoes if you like. Add a low calorie dressing doesn't really matter which one they all taste good! French dressing probably more appropriate. yummy..Gobble.
Alter it by grilling some sea bass or mackerel add yellow peppers/ red peppers /sweetcorn.
2) Poached egg salad. Grab some olives, capers beetroot and tomatoes and cut them up on the gem lettuce. Poach an egg and place on top add some olive oil. Voila delightful
3) Tomatoes, cucumber, onion, peas and lemon on shredded gem lettuce. Such a lovely Indian salad.
All these ingredients can be mixed around, I'm not a chef I just have a passion for food, thankfully it's salads now, not pizza.
There are relatively no calories and it's always good to have in the fridge when you're feeling hungry at times you shouldn't. Live on nothing but salad and fish and you will lose weight and become healthier, just by giving up complex carbohydrates you will see a difference. Salad/lettuce has become my substitute for bread and complex carbohydrates. There's like 15 calories in lettuce per plate. Amazing!
4) Stuffed pepper: grill half a pepper with flavoured couscous inside, tuna on top and a thin layer of cheese. Cook until preference, Have a green pepper the next day with brown rice and chicken with a salsa verdi.
5) Cottage cheese with pineapple. very low calorie and low fat.
6) Tuna ratatouille. Make a pasta sauce, which ever one you like and have it in a bowl without the pasta. 100% flavour 0% complex carbs.(onions, garlic, plum tomatoes, pea and carrots and tuna is suprisingly delicious).
7) ommlette. eggs are high protein and you can add onions, peppers, tomatoes, capers, olives, cheese the list is probably endles. As you can tell I'm a fan!
A cereal sized bowl full of either of these will max 350 calories at most.
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