To up my protein levels, I eat hard boiled egg WHITES. Due to the high level of cholesterol in the yolk, I throw them away, and just eat the egg whites. Now, there’s nothing saying you have to throw away the yolks – but if you have any cholestrol issues, I would. I don’t have these issues anymore, but when I was super overweight – my cholesterol wasn’t great. So I do what I can to make sure that I’m keeping it in check.
While I also drink a lot of water, I’m going to talk about two staples in our healthy dinners. When I lived alone, I used to eat a lot of hamburgers. Why? Well, because they’re good, but the reason for eating hamburgers probably 4 to 5 nights a week is simple convenience. It’s easy to come home after a long day and just throw one on the grill. I had no desire to cook a big elaborate meal for just me and this was a quick and easy solution. Now that I am married to Jenn, I still don’t want to take the time to cook a big meal every night (and neither does she), because our time together is too valuable to worry about fixing something complicated after work. But eating hamburgers every night will pack on the pounds and clog your arteries; how can you eat healthy and fit it into your busy schedule?
The solution is turkey burgers, one of the foods we eat most, specifically the Jenny-O pre-pressed, frozen, ready-to-cook kind. In fact, we currently eat them about every night for supper. They have the same convenience as their beef cousins, but without the excess calories and fat. And they have a lot of lean protein. I typically get home before Jenn and can throw them on when she leaves her last appoinment and they’ll be ready to serve when she walks in the door. Can’t beat that! And of course we don’t bother with having rolls; they’re just extra carbs. A little seasoning is nice, but we are sure to measure a serving size first, so we don’t take in too much sodium!Hopefully that didn’t sound too much like a Jenny-O commercial, but it’s true. Something I have trouble eating is vegetables. As a general rule, I tend to dislike most of them. But there are a handful of them that I like to eat, and one of them is baby spinach, which also happens to be quick and convenient. We eat it raw, thrown on the plate with our turkey burgers, add a few sprays of the salad spritzer-style dressing and a few croutons and we’re good to go!
