3 Great dinner ideas!

OK so the first idea is soup.  If you don't like soup, then skip down to the second idea.  If you do like soup, then the next question is what kind do you like?  For me, I always grew up and loved and still love Campbell's condensed soups.  Yes, I know there are soups that aren't condensed and a lot of people think they taste better like Progresso and the likes.  I just happen to be one of the ones that doesn't like their soup.  I don't know what it is about it that I don't like. but I don't.  I discovered that Campbell's condensed makes 4 varieties of light soup that I love for only 70 calories per serving!! The whole can is just 175 and that is filling!!  Here are the 4 kinds:

Chicken mushroom barley
Chicken Gumbo
Italian-style wedding
Chicken with white and wild rice

They are soooo good and so nourishing.  I know that summer is not a time for soup usually but when you are dieting,  you need to have that sense of fullness sometimes and this gives it!  I usually have mine with a piece of Sarah Lee diet bread and a tsp of low cal marg spread.  It is a meal that holds you over and keeps your calories counting on the low end!  Give them a try!

The second idea is a hobo dinner.  Yes, I said hobo dinner!  In tinfoil with cut up steak bits, carrots and so forth!! It is sooo good!!  The only bad thing is that you can't really count it unless you measured it all out.  Here is my list of ingredients and I will tell you why I think its low cal and what I do to count it.

Start with these:

potatoes (on the fewer side as they have more cal's)
carrots
red pepper
yellow squash
zucchini
green pepper
onion
steak (small portion cut up)

I always take some foil and put down pam on it and then I put the meat and season it.  I then put in the chopped veggies and spray it with no cal butter spray and add more seasoning.  I then have Sean throw it on the grill (all wrapped up in a couple of sheets of foil and made kinda thin so it will cook)  and cook it for app 20 flipping midway through the cook time.  It comes out all perfectly seasoned and done and the best part is you are eating mostly veggies!!  You could count and measure but what i do is wait until dinner and save up a few extra calories before I eat like last night when I had 700 left and then after dinner, I ate some graham crackers and milk and was done for the day.  You do want to be careful not to go hog wild but you can enjoy this and not feel guilty!! It is so delicious!! You could even try veggie version without the meat and I know it will still be sooo good.   It is something that I don't do all the time, but when I do it, I feel like I am being naughty but in reality, it is just fine.

The third idea is a turkey burger!  It is soooooo good.  I grill turkey burgers and eat them on sarah lee diet buns and that is only 240 cals!!!  Then add ketchup for 15 cals per tbls or mustard for free.  I then add tomato, onion, lettuce and pickles and it is soooooooooo good.  It is so fresh and delish and I do it quite often to get a low cal dinner.  You could even try it with a salad, low cal baked lays, sliced cucumbers on the side or with 8 wheat thins and string cheese (145 cals for the crackers and cheese combo).   Having a burger makes dieting worth doing and it is so filling.  Don't forget to leave off the cheese unless you have some that is very low cal as regular cheese is pretty high in fat and calories.  Enjoy!!!!

I hope you will try these ideas!!  I have been hoping and praying for the 230s this week so send me some love and hope I will get there!! hehe thanks!!