What are some meals you eat daily to stay healthy? What healthy meals can one eat that actually DON'T taste horrible?

[MCheetah]

Buying salmon, grilled chicken, organic eggs, egg rolls, pickled ginger, broccoli, and peanuts: $50 total!

My pretentious, rich people, healthy eating meal!

Here's everything but the broccoli.

Here's the final dish.

So I'm trying to super-healthy eating thing right now. All throughout December, just eating "superfoods." I spent a sh*t-ton of money on all this healthy food shown above. (The salmon alone was $17 US; I don't know if that's normal or not, but that's a lot for me.)

I'm going back to cooking every meal once again, which is a hassle. And I'm spending more than $5-$7 a day on my food, all to try to adapt healthy lifestyle choices and not just live off of yogurt and beef like I've been doing since the weight-loss surgery.

This Sunday night I made fried salmon, gyeran mari (Korean egg rolls), and baked broccoli. It was one of the blandest meals I ever had, and I added pepper to it. I also planned on making some grilled peanut chicken and sunny-side-up eggs at some point. But imma be honest; I can't live this 'pretentious meal' sh*t for the rest of my life. This isn't satisfying to me.

So what are some basic healthy meals one can eat everyday that aren't as expensive or bland as this?

I asked this question before on GAG. ... Kinda. All the responses I got were either terrible tasting crap like vegan food. Really hard to make things that take a long time to cook. Or generic answers like "fruit."

So please, no nasty food for advanced health nuts only, chef-level dishes, or generic responses like "veggies." Thank you.

[sunflower00]

Seasoning is so important!!


I do eat junk food, I eat unhealthy food sometimes, but generally I’m trying to eat healthy.


Breakfast:
I don’t eat this very often because I end up running late for work, but if I am going to eat breakfast (and you definitely should because it’s so important), I will have some cereal like bran flakes, weetabix, malt wheats, etc. with a chopped up banana and almond milk. I eat my bananas when they have brown spots so they’re sweet enough and I don’t need to add honey or anything.


Lunch:
Currently I’m trying to eat soup for my lunch every day. My favourite soup i make is tomato and lentil, but sometimes I have vegetable soup. I also love tomato on its own. Making it homemade is key…for tomato & lentil I only use tinned tomatoes, lentils, celery, onion, garlic and seasoning that’s literally it & it tastes good! Alternatively, I do like smashed avocado (seasoned) on a thin bagel with sriracha but there’s not much protein in that. If I want more protein I’ll have a Turkey, cheese & lettuce sandwich (brown bread) or something similar. I don’t really like that as much though, it’s quite bland (I always add sauce though of course). I’m also trying to eat less cheese so I don’t have this much right now.


Dinner foods in comments >

[sunflower00]

Dinner:
I try to make different things all the time but the important thing for me is making it from scratch & not having takeaways much. I do like beef and salmon but don’t eat that too much as they tend to be pretty expensive. Some meals I enjoy that aren’t too bad for you:
• Salmon bowls (salmon with rice & veg - usually salmon w teriyaki sauce or lemon salmon, rice usually coconut or lime & coriander)
• Greek chicken bowls. This recipe I found was for chicken meatballs but I don’t wanna touch raw chicken that much so I just cut it up and add the seasoning…it’s chicken with rice (again I prefer flavoured rice), cucumber, tomatoes, red onion, feta & tzatziki.
• Mexican bowls (yes I like bowls) - for this I do low fat beef mince with taco or fajita seasoning, with bell pepper, onion, sweetcorn, black beans, homemade guac, hot salsa, jalapeños, and Mexican rice (or any other rice tbh)
• Coconut chickpea curry with rice & naan bread although you probs won’t like this since there’s no meat, so alternatively a homemade chicken jalfrezi
• Homemade salt and pepper chicken with egg fried rice. I use a low cal recipe. Not necessarily healthy, but it’s better than a takeaway
• Burst tomato pasta - burst tomatoes with shallots, garlic with penne or spaghetti with a white wine/lemon sauce
• Beef & broccoli or some kind of beef stir fry

[sunflower00]

Snacks:

• like someone said, healthy pancakes (I do banana, egg whites, baking powder, protein powder)
• fruit (sorry but true)
• yoghurt covered blueberries? you freeze them
• jelly
• veg with dip/hummus
• meat/cheese with oatcakes
• smoked mackerel pate with oatcakes

[MCheetah]

None of this is helpful for me and seems overly complicated and too hard to do. But it is detailed. So I guess I can give you a MHO for that, I suppose.

[sunflower00]

Thanks for the MHO! Most of these things take 20 mins or less. I’m pretty lazy, don’t have much time and I’m really not good at cooking so I always try to make it simple. Most things with rice I use those microwave packets of rice for which takes 2 mins to heat up, the rest of it mostly is sticking something in the oven or chopping a couple things and shoving it in a frying pan! Sorry if it’s not helpful at all

[purplepoppy]

There's nothing I deliberately eat daily to keep healthy. My philosophy is all natural food is healthy and the more its processed the worse it gets.
Most of what you hear about so called superfoods is just marketing hype with zero science to back it up. The nutrient levels are comparable to any other fruit or veg.
Organic? You'll be surprised how many farmers won't eat organic because they don't think it's safe.

[Frank_Woods]

I'm going to give you some advice that may be more valuable than just telling you a singular food to eat. Understanding how to maintain a healthy weight and proper hormonal function is probably more important than finding a superfood.

People will always say: Body Fat = Calories In - Calories Out. However, it is not as simple as eat less because the body's metabolic rate will adjust downward if you do so. The goal really should be eating food that doesn't store as body fat.

Now that you know the background. I will layout some healthy and unhealthy types of nutrients. Among the unhealthy things to avoid are sugar (cookies, cake, even too much fruit), omega 6 fats (cooking oils, fast food), and transfats (fast food). Among the healthy things are vegetables, omega 3 fats (avocado, nuts, salmon), and saturated fats (eggs, beef, chicken, pork, basically any unprocessed meat).

One last piece of advice is to look into Intermittent Fasting. One of the problems of today's society is the frequent eating that blocks the body's ability to heal itself through stimulating growth hormone and autophagy aka recycling old cellular machinery. I think combined with healthy foods, Intermittent Fasting is a force to be reckoned with.

[MCheetah]

I've done all that before, including intermittent fasting for YEARS (before I even knew the name of it.) None of that has ever worked. I also would only eat a sandwich and some kettle chips once a day, back in the US, so I was eating far LESS fast food there, than I do here in South Korea (cause Korean food tastes like sh*t.) Fast food would be a once every three weeks or once a month thing for me, at the most.

The one thing I do agree with you on, is Calories In, Calories Out being a complete over-simplification of reality. Only complete and utter morons on the internet say that. My own doctors have told me what insulin is (not all calories are the same, some will stick inside you more than others, especially sugars and carbs) and what homeostasis is (which my body is good at adapting to better than most, since I grew up poor, ate very little food every day, school lunches mainly, and the food I did eat, was unhealthy and lacking in nutrition.) My body is so adaptable to being unhealthy, I could go DAYS without eating, no problem, and this was prior to my bariatric surgery. My metabolism was at Absolute Zero; I pretty much never got hungry and could survive on water for weeks. Post-surgery, I can now literally survive on water and only would have to poop every 10 or 11 days (sorry if this is too much info.) Point is, Calories In, Calories Out is bullsh*t cause the body doesn't work on simple math formulas and homeostasis is a thing.

But yeah, I already know all of this stuff you said. It hasn't helped with weight loss or health. Thanks anyway.

[IceCreamSandwich]

Maybe if you find a seasoning combination you like, you could make some of that and keep it in a bag or jar to use with bland food? Like how some people keep breading so they don't have to make it new every time. So if you don't like just pepper, but say onion powder or paprika helps, you could combine different stuff like that and get a bunch of seasoning you like. Or using liquid seasonings too, and just keep it in the fridge. Then you could have something pre-ready to add to anything that's too bland, instead of having to take time to prepare every meal it's own different flavor.

[LiamSawyer]

I have oatmeal for breakfast most mornings with a few raisins and a handful of blueberries or once in s while scrambled eggs. I try to eat salmon or rainbow throat or another high in Omega 3 fish at least three meals per week, I always bake the fish with sliced lemon as it's the healthiest way to cook it. I eat eat lots of crucifious veggies some cooked but try to eat about half of them raw. And leafy green salads with a dressing I make from either avocado oil or extra virgin olive oil and a vinegar such as balsamic or red wine vinegar or sherry vinegar. I also eat about 6 avocados per week.

[Changiis07]

I make these healthy pancakes that actually taste really good. One egg, one banana and 3 table spoons of oats. Oats is better if they are ground or you can buy some already into a powder form. If it's too small of a portion you can double the recipe but it's healthy and you can top with strawberries and blueberries, honey however healthy you want it

[Fuentes]

I eat mostly plant based & white meat sometimes so my iodine levels don't fuck up and my thyroid starts acting up.

I don't eat much my stomach is not a fan of most foods anymore.

[exitseven]

I just bought some chicken breasts. I don't eat them every day but two or 3 times a week.

[pers0n]

Eating less frequently you'll be able to find disgusting foods tastier.

[pers0n]

Peanuts, as most if not all other nuts, raise SHBG meaning anti testosterone.
Ginger if abused, may lead to the same side effects as SSRIs, but unlikely if you just use a bit for the flavour, and not mega dose daily.
See if you can find a local egg farmer, or directly get eggs from the same farm that supplies to stores, some give defective/asymmetrical ones for much less.

[alice55]

Tomato pasta