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blubirde · Chanel

RE: Foods that fill you up for a long time

Metric · Gucci

An omlette (with eggwhites only if you prefer) with lots of vegetables- spinach, green onions, lightly sauteed zucchinnis, peppers and a bit of cheese or salsa. With a slice of multigrain toast- all 4 food groups covered. If you undercook the eggs a bit you can put it in the fridge or freezer and heat it up for later (like for lunch or on days when you're too busy to make breakfast)

Couscous is really good. You can eat it cold as a salad or hot with lots of things. Also wild rice or brown rice.

Baked potato- with salsa or sour cream & chives if you're not too concerned about calories. A potato has about 100 cals and no fat.

Make sure you drink lots of water or clear teas. Sometimes thirst can be confused with hunger.

-- Edited by BrazenCanadian at 14:08, 2005-09-23

lynnie · Chanel

i just discovered *by discovered i mean i always eat these things but never considered them healthy foods that fill me up for a long time* two great snacks:

Morningstar veggie corn dog- 150 cals. I would need more than that for a meal, but i like to eat them at off hours

Melba rounds- 5 of them are 50 calories (I eat 6 or 7), half in garlic hummus (50 calories but i don't have the whole serving size), and the other half with smoked salmon (comes refridgerated and ready to go! though i never know how to package the leftovers..). Its soo good, probably all in all about 150 calories as well.

i just had all of this together, and it was deeeelisious.

eta: i'm not a vegetarian (i've had several pms where people think i am), i love to eat meat, but i guess i just eat everything, i loveee vegetarian food

-- Edited by lynnie at 23:15, 2005-09-21

daiz519 · Dooney & Bourke

As a meal, chile keeps me feeling full and satisfied for a long time. I like veggie and turkey chile.

As a snack, if I have a Luna or Balance bar with a piece of fruit I stay full for awhile.

ejc423 · Coach

Grape Nuts!

When I was working and on a semi-regular schedule, I ate Grape Nuts for breakfast at about 6:30 or 7 every morning and they held me over till about 1:30 or 2:00. I would have a contest w/ myself to see how late I could go before taking my lunch break. It made the day go by faster.

Anyway, if I ate any other kind of cereal, I would be famished by 10:30 or 11. And I noticed as long as I was eating Grape Nuts, I either lost weight or maintained, depending on exercise.

Grape Nuts is a wonderfood.

nunzi182 · Kate Spade

blubirde wrote:

sfclinevandy wrote:
A spoon full of peanut butter. Obviously not as low calorie as what other people have mentioned, but it really fills me up.

Whipped pb for me. It has a lot less calories than regular or reduced-fat pb and it tastes the same as regular. I eat that with w/w toast in the morning and I'm good to go until lunch. I hardly ever make it from lunch to dinner without being hungry so I just try to have a few protein snacks available, like string cheese and almonds.
Those snack packs of almonds are a lifesaver!

Blubirde, do you whip the pb yourself or do you buy it that way?

Pepper · Kenneth Cole

COTTAGE CHEESE

Lilykind · Hermes

Whole wheat couscous is so filling. I made a dish with Trader Joe's Morroccan Tagine sauce, chicken breast, and the couscous thrown in together. I will dump a small scoop of that on my plate (maybe 1 cup at the most), eat the thing, and be full for 4-6 hours.

DC Shopper · Dooney & Bourke

eating about 1/2 c. plain fat free yogurt with 1/2 c. berries, a handful of fat free granola, and a bit of honey to sweeten it keeps me from getting all headach-y and ravenous in the mornings - when I have time to eat breakfast, that is.

also, I haven't tried this myself but my friend makes this smoothie that sounds really yummy and filling:

1 c. chocolate soy milk, a frozen banana, and a tablespoon of peanut butter in a blender - the frozen banana makes it creamy and the pb and soy gives you protein and good fat. might be good as an afternoon snack or a late night meal replacement.

-- Edited by DC Shopper at 15:10, 2005-09-23

ILoveChoo · Hermes

DC Shopper wrote:

also, I haven't tried this myself but my friend makes this smoothie that sounds really yummy and filling: 1 c. chocolate soy milk, a frozen banana, and a tablespoon of peanut butter in a blender - the frozen banana makes it creamy and the pb and soy gives you protein and good fat. might be good as an afternoon snack or a late night meal replacement. -- Edited by DC Shopper at 15:10, 2005-09-23

I completely forgot about this- but I've had these too. Very good (the frozen banana makes it like a milkshake) and really filling.

Christine · Coach

nunzi182 wrote:

Blubirde, do you whip the pb yourself or do you buy it that way?

Not Blubirde, but they sell whipped PB at the grocery store, so I would assume she buys it that way.

Alikat · Kate Spade

lots of great suggestions here... one more, soup fills me up! I keep a "Soup at hand" in my desk drawer for emergencies

jen · Kate Spade

Egg whites, kashi cereal, water, protein shakes, oatmeal.

jestillman · Kenneth Cole

blubirde wrote:

sfclinevandy wrote: A spoon full of peanut butter. Obviously not as low calorie as what other people have mentioned, but it really fills me up. Whipped pb for me. It has a lot less calories than regular or reduced-fat pb and it tastes the same as regular. I eat that with w/w toast in the morning and I'm good to go until lunch. I hardly ever make it from lunch to dinner without being hungry so I just try to have a few protein snacks available, like string cheese and almonds. Those snack packs of almonds are a lifesaver!

I've been a PB lover forever, but I've never heard of whipped peanut butter. WHAT IS IT? ok, it's obviously butter:whipped butter::peanut butter: whiped peanut butter (that's the ony part of the SAT's i did well on) but is it air-y or just lighter? and if it's whipped can it also be crunchy? I gotta have the crunchy....

Also, where can you get snack-packs of almonds? I end up w/the bulk bag and often eat too many....

dc · Dooney & Bourke

Foods with plenty of fiber (you'll note that's the common thread among a lot of these reccs).

I like a handful of nuts, a high-fiber cereal bar, oat-bran muffins (homemade, not the massive store-bought ones), or peanut butter and celery. BTW, try to get to like the all-natural type of PB if you can. Brands like skippy and jif are barely even real peanuts and are filled with trans-fats/partially hydrogenated oils, which are very bad for you. If it's "real" peanut butter, it's a "good" fat, so don't obsess about that too much - just limit your intake to 1 serving size at a time (I think it's 2 TBSP?).

If you tend to eat too many nuts and can't stop at a handful, measure little portions out in to snack baggies and keep those around - 1/4 cup is one serving.

Also, try eating little (healthy) snacks every few hours. You won't feel like binging. And after having a snack (eat s-l-o-w-l-y), sit back a minute. Sometimes it takes your body a few minutes to realize it's satisfied. And also being well-hydrated does help.