I am a lazy cook so lean towards slow cooker meals. My basic recipe is 500g meat (5% fat mince, meatballs, pork steaks, chicken breasts, boneless turkey thighs, beef stewing steak…whatever they have in the shop and I fancy), tin of tomatoes, red onion, lots of sliced mushrooms, then whatever non-starchy veg I have available sliced peppers, carrots etc. Brown off the meat and onions then put it all in the slow cooker for the day with whatever seasoning you like, I just use the pre-mixed seasoning for chilli, pork casserole, beef casserole, spaghetti bolognaise or whatever.
That makes 4 portions and is a good mix of protein, fat, fibre while being low carb. Generally I don’t need a side with it, that’s enough to fill me up, but if you wanted to the steam fresh packs of veg are handy and just need 3 minutes in the microwave.
Otherwise I stick to quite simple meat and 2 veg type meals, I go big on flavour though, plenty of chilli, garlic etc because the longer I am on MJ the more I prefer very savoury strong flavours.
For quick lunches if I don’t have anything batch cooked I like omelette with spring onions, peppers, chilli and a dash of hot sauce, or a simple salad with chipotle ranch dressing and either cooked chicken or boiled egg.
Full fat Greek yoghurt, full fat Longley Farms cottage cheese and boiled eggs are handy to have in the fridge. They are very filling and high protein, I also like beef jerky and biltong, the Ember Chilli Eub Beef Biltong is very nice and gives a lot of protein for very fee calories.