I made Chicken Casserole today with boiled potatoes.
That sounds good. Today for lunch I had a salad with BBQ grilled chicken. Not sure yet what Iâm having for dinner.
Hi Nicol, welcome to the thread. I am trying to lose 20 lbs. Just a bit more than you.
I donât post much on what I eat as I never know one minute to the next what I am going to have. And it isnât near as delicious as some of the meals I am seeing on here.
For example, tonight for supper I had an english muffin, cut in half and toasted, with canned salmon, onions and tiny bit of mayo.
That is itâŠoh and a glass of milk.
Today its a roast dinner consisting of:
Cajan Chicken Breasts, Roast Potatoes, Baked Onion, Cauliflower Chees, Carrots.
Today I have sinned 
Brunch was 2 slices of toast with a scraping of Benecol and Marmite instead of the veg soup. I do get sick of the soup sometimes :o
Tonight for dinner it will be a low calorie ready meal as time will be short.
Marmite is one of those thing we Americans just donât understand, lol.
Susie! When you make your Shepherdâs Pie, what do you normally serve with it? Iâm making a Shepherdâs Pie (traditionally called Cottage Pie here if you make it with any meat other than lamb) for Sunday dinner this week and I need a type of side dish.
Piece of left over lasagna for lunch. It was more lentils then meat so really low fat
Rosemary chicken tonight, with cous cous for me and spuds for the others
Hi Linda, I use any vegetables with my Shepherdâs pie, either Cabbage, broccoli or even sweetcorn etc. something green normally, because I chop up carrots in my Shepherdâs pie and I use Lamb.
Cottage pie is Beef.
Marmite is either the nectar of gods or the food of the devil, you either love it or hate it, there is no middle ground 
I love it and have it on toast most days I also love it on a cheese toastie. Itâs very good for you as well as being scrumm
Yep, beef or pork. Ground pork is used in Cottage Pie as well. Lamb is not only hard to come by here, but itâs also very expensive. So Cottage Pie, rather than Shepherdâs Pie, is usually what Americans make.
I find it funny, all the recipes I find for Shepherdâs Pie and the main ingredient is beef or pork. Iâm like dude, thatâs not Shepherdâs Pie. Use your heads. What does Shepherd stand for? Um, SHEEP herder, LOL. Der? People crack me up.
But weâre dumb Americans, after all 
A friend of mine once said she was making âShepherdâs Pieâ for dinner. I said âOh yeah? Whereâd you find the ground lamb?â She goes, âLamb? Iâm using ground beef.â So I said, âThen thatâs not Shepherdâs Pie.â
Thanks for the suggestions. Something green works. Iâve decided on baby lima beans. That would be yummy with the pie. Plus I have cottage cheese to plop on the side as well. Cottage cheese with Cottage Pie :-p
Iâve heard the same from others, saying you either love it or you hate it. Iâve personally never tried it. Mostly because it sounds disgusting and I just donât get the idea behind eating something like that. But then I eat things that gross people out too.
Sometimes I sprinkle a bit of curry powder on top of the mash.
Oh you and your curry! 
I think Iâll leave that off. In fact, I donât even own curry powder. Besides, I donât think my boys would like me messing with their mash. We take mashed potatoes very seriously around here 
Guess what, Linda! Its Curry day today.
:shock: 
Today Iâm having a bunless veggie burger and a riced cauliflower medley. I often have my veggie burgers (and even regular burgers) without the bun, simply to cut calories and carbs. Admittedly, Iâm a âbad carbâ junkie (and potatoes arenât one of the bad guys! ;-)) and I really need to cut back on that stuff. I got my blood work back from my latest doc appointment and everything looks good and is within normal levels and even my total cholesterol is fine⊠all except my triglycerides. Iâve always had a problem with triglycerides and Iâve done some reading and discovered that eating too many refined carbohydrates can raise blood fats, which is essentially what triglycerides are.
Iâm just not quite sure how Iâm going to do that yet. I guess Iâll have to get used to eating whole grain breads. Problem is, I donât like them. Iâm a white bread addict and itâs going to be hard to change. But for my health, I think Iâm gonna have to.
PS - this is what I do to my bunless burgers if I have avocado hanging around. Yum!
I was a tad unwell yesterday, suffering another IBS flare up and really couldnât face much food so had soup for lunch and scrambled egg on toast for dinner.
I donât feel much better today really so not sure what Iâll be eating, I will have to play it by ear.
Just had our dinner of:-
Smoked Haddock, Jacket Potato and Salad.
Hope you feel better soon Nicol
Linda, do you eat lots of oily fish or take an Omega3 supplement ? That helps
Also Mr Missy, whoâs weight has never gone above 11st, has to watch his cholesterol Heâs now using benecol as a spread and drinking one of those cholesterol busting yoghurt drinks daily. So far heâs been kept of the statins so they may be working
Carb fest for me today, its Saturday and calories donât count Saturdays 
So far Ive had a toasted cheese ham and onion baguette and for supper tonight I will be having a very very thin crust pizza, with a very skimpy topping of cheese and pepperoni. to give it more flavour and to boost my oily fish intake I shall add anchovies
This weeks meals will be featuring roasts as I got a lovely large bit of topside and stuffed chicken crowns Lunches will be leek and potato soup as leeks were on special offer this week so Ive a fridge full
I take fish oil every day. I donât eat a lot of oily fish, but occasionally.
Something I came across that I find interesting:
Whether youâre trying to lose weight, maintain weight loss or just stay healthy, at some point, youâre going to get hungry. But simply eating whenever the urge strikes isnât always the healthiest response â and thatâs because hunger isnât as straightforward as you may think.
A complex web of signals throughout the brain and body drives how and when we feel hungry. And even the question of why we feel hungry is not always simple to answer. The drive to eat comes not only from the bodyâs need for energy, but also a variety of cues in our environment and a pursuit of pleasure.
To help you better understand and control your hunger, Live Science talked to the researchers who have looked at hunger every which way, from the molecular signals that drive it to the psychology of cravings. Indeed, we dug into the studies that have poked and prodded hungry people to find out exactly whatâs going on within their bodies. We found that fighting off that hungry feeling goes beyond eating filling foods (though those certainly help!). It also involves understanding your cravings and how to fight them, and how other lifestyle choices â such as sleep, exercise and stress â play a role in how the body experiences hunger.
Interesting article, thanks