Breakfast & lunch for 300 cals?

[alwayslemons]

I've got dinner down to a fine art - it's always roughly 500 cals, filling, balanced, low carb, tasty. That leaves me with 300 calories for the rest of the day which really isn't much.

I reeeeeaally struggle to go without breakfast (eating is the first thing I think about when I wake up, thats's just the way my brain is wired!) and I used to love cereal or toast with butter and jam which is obviously out of the question.

If I had to pick I'd go with breakfast over lunch but would obviously prefer to have both... Does anyone have any super low calorie recommendations for breakfast & lunch? I'd love to have the same thing every day so I don't have to keep thinking about it all the time and counting calories! Right now I'm thinking a boiled egg for breakfast and a small salad for lunch. Not wildly inspiring.

Would love to know what you guys have!

Hi,
I think soup makes a great breakfast. I make a chicken stock, add some low carb veg, a bit of cooked chicken and portion it into jars. It keeps in the fridge for a few days so you don't need to think about it too much.
It sounds weird to have soup for breakfast but its really filling, warming on cold days but not heavy at all.
Other wise I have eggs, with sauted veg.
I've made a sort of oven baked omlette this week, and portioned it out with my veg, onions, mushrooms, and kale , which I have with a dollop of yogurt.
It depends on your portion sizes but both of these clock about 200 cals.
Or you could have a cup of hot stock for 'breakfast' 1 tsp of margold veg stock I think is around 20 calories, then save the rest of your calories for lunch.

A stocky soup like miso for lunch. Porridge oats with skimmed milk is 180 calories and very filling. A slice of toast with peanut butter (good fat) can be 180 if careful with the amount of peanut butter. Skyr yogurt & berries. Salad leaves with chicken breast pieces.

I've just had bacon, eggs and garlic mushrooms which are under 300 cals, delicious and very filling.

Breakfasts: 1 egg scrambled in microwave with spinach, mushrooms, tomatoes, any low cal veg. Or poached on a bed of asparagus. 50g cottage cheese with a tomato and a sprinkle of za-atar.

Lunches: home made veg soup (I tend to make a batch at weekends to use up leafy greens, with onions, broccoli, cauli, beetroot, etc.). Or a sachet of miso soup. Or Ainsley's Szechuan cupasoup (70 cals). Salads, I like to add in some of capers, jarred red pepper or artichokes, olives, anchovies, mushroom antipasti. Cooked prawns, feta or hard boiled egg are all good low cal high protein additions. Leftover fritatta/ crustless quiche.

I'd have 1 egg, 1 piece of bread, 1 tsp butter. You can fit it tor 300 cals maybe even some berries, too if low cal bread.

Its hard to do 3 meals why dont you fast after lunch and split your cals between breakast and lunch?

I used to fo a really strict diet - 500 c as kid f or the whole day and could get to 3 without lunch. So coffee is your friend and 2 breadsticks, an apple, and then at 2.30-3pm 2 hard boiled eggs or 100 grams chicken (weighed raw) with salad stuff no dressing.

Best just to get a routine going and just stick to it.

If you are a breakfast person then the key is to get some protein in there so that you stay feeling full.
Scrambled egg on grilled mushrooms are a pretty safe bet
or egg muffins
but basically nothing carb loaded as then you'll get hungry sooner

the easiest in the long run is to drop to two meals a day - one big, one little.