Can anyone help with me with nice low fat/low cal dinners for my dh please?

[mumhadenough]

He's turned into a bit of a pie! At his request, he wants to go on a diet from tomorrow. I'm on the Cambridge diet (as I'm a bit of a pie too) so I don't really want to have to think too much about food, iykwim.

I'd really appreciate some of your favourite "diet" meal suggestions.

As a wee help;

He LOVES pasta, unfortately he also loves a full baguette of garlic bread with it!
He's not a great lover of salad, but he'll eat a wee tomato/red onion sald with low fat dressing.
Loves home made soup, but again he'll eat it with half a loaf.
Anyone seeing a pattern here?

He's a complete carb addict, he knows that himself and if he cuts out the bread and crisps he loses weight easily. I basically need suggestions that will be filling for him without him feeling as if he needs to add in the bread to fill him up.

I do give him quite big portions too, which I'm going to cut back on.

He does a very manual job, but from tomorrow he'll be having;

Cornflakes for breakfast.
4 Weetabix for lunch.
(This is his preferences not mine, he's did this before and the weight falls off him).

Sorry, this has turned into a novel, looking forward to your nice healthy dinner suggestions for him.

Thanks in advance.

Pasta is fine as long as he has healthy sauce and no garlic bread! Can he have the salad with the pasta and maybe a tomato-based sauce? Would be better to have the weetabix for breakfast and something with protein for lunch, like chicken salad sandwich (watch the mayo!) or tuna jacket pot. (depends where he is working I guess). Also, fruit and maybe cheese/yoghurt at lunch will fill him up and make it more interesting.

For dinner:

salmon or any kind of fish, few small pots and lots of veg
spicy chicken, cous cous and roasted veg
Curry, but tomato based rather than creamy ones like korma

Basically, just eat normally but try to cut out the unhealthy options like the creamy sauces and fried stuff, so you don't feel like you are eating "diet" food. especially at this time of year, hot food rather than salad is good, so roast vegetables can be nice as long as not in too much oil. Have you looked at the C4Jamie's Ministry of food website, there are some nice recipes on there and not too hard.

Stir fry is a very healthy option. Egg noodles, lean meat or fish (if you like), loads of veg, simple sauce.

I keep going back to previous threads here
here
and here - the latter unfortuantley gappy since cod's demise

Chicken thighs chopped into bite sized pieces. Stir fried for 2-3 mins with red or green curry paste. Add tin of low fat coconut milk, chopped courgettes, dash of fish sauce and palm sugar. Simmer for another 5 mins. Serve with rice noodles (and chopped coriander if you have it). Serves 2.

Very quick, very filling.

Thanks everyone for the ideas and I'll go and have a look at those other threads

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