Weight Loss Recipe

There are a number of apps which would meet your need, just Google ‘recipe that uses what you have’ generally vegetable, including olive, oils are considered the healthiest.
If you are a body builder I’m surprised you’re asking?

Have a look at Nutracheck it will track all your ingredients and give you recipes and suggestions. Yuka (its free) will map the ultra-processed and processed foods for you.

Thanks for the advice to search for recipe that uses what you have. However, the sites I've visited will only use one or two of the ingredients. If I say that I have chicken breast, broccoli, and rolled oats, they recommend Air Fryer Chicken Breasts. Well, I don't have an air fryer, and that recipe doesn't include either of the other two ingredients. I tried adding other common ingredients such as butter, garlic powder, onion powder, paprika, but it just suggested Pan Seared Chicken Breast and Oven Roasted Broccoli.
Thanks anyway.

Why not develop your own recipe. Its not that difficcult. For example dip chicken in beaten egg then roll in the oats and roast in oven and serve with boiled broccoli?

Chicken is very low in calories and those in Broccoli (as in most veg) almost zero. You would need an awful lot of chicken and Broccoli to reach even 1,000 calories. Frying/adding butter would help increase the total but you would also need a lot of oats as well.

Is your aim of 2,100 calories for a single meal? Seems a lot.

High calorie foods typically fall into categories such as high fat/sugar/carbohydrate - do you really want loads of these in a meal on a regular basis?

There are specialist high-protein foods that might help.

Why put oats and oil in with the chicken and broccoli? Are you making a savoury porridge.

If you are cooking it in a Crockpot which I assume you mean a slow cooker . You need more vegetables forget the oats and oil. Add pearl barley or lentils chicken stocks cubes and boiling water plus and herbs and seasoning.

Put everything into together raw and cook for 10-12 hours depending on temperature.

I made a stew in a saucepan today using 300g Quorn mince ,5 Oxo cubes ,150g pearl barley ,414g carrots,522 courgettes,370g butternut squash and 191 g mushrooms. Made enough for 6 dinners 164:cal a portion .

Madmeg

Chicken is very low in calories and those in Broccoli (as in most veg) almost zero. You would need an awful lot of chicken and Broccoli to reach even 1,000 calories. Frying/adding butter would help increase the total but you would also need a lot of oats as well.

Is your aim of 2,100 calories for a single meal? Seems a lot.

High calorie foods typically fall into categories such as high fat/sugar/carbohydrate - do you really want loads of these in a meal on a regular basis?

There are specialist high-protein foods that might help.

Thank you for your input. The goal is to eat 2100 calories per day, so the "savoury porridge" as someone dubbed it would be divided into 3-4 meals.

I am thinking something along the lines of 3 cups of chicken breast (130g of protein right there) — about 693 calories. Maybe 2 cups of broccoli and 10 cups of oats would get me to 1973 calories plus the oil... ? Or would that be far too much oats to chicken and broccoli?

There’s someone on Facebook that puts up recipes containing oats. I went out and bought lots of ingredients to make one of her cakes and it was horrible. Like eating cold porridge with containing dried fruit and nuts (which, I suppose, was what it was!). I’m going to stick to having porridge oats as porridge oats. Did someone once mention putting oats in a meat loaf on here once, though?

If this is food for a day, and presumably to be repeated. then I think you are about to embark on a fad diet that is not going to provide you with the full range of vitamins and micronutrients necessary for a healthy diet and could damage your health in the meanwhile.

Now I realise this, I am not going to do or say anything that can be seen as enabling you to embark on this dangerously unbalanced meal plan.

If you want to loose weight, first check that you are really overweight. The best measure is to measure your waist. If it is 34 inches or less then you do not need to lose weight. If you do need to lose weight then follow the Mediterraanean diet

I suspect that you are in the US as you talk of 'cups' as a food measuremnt, so here is a link to a reputable US medical site my.clevelandclinic.org/health/articles/16037-mediterranean-diet

M0nica

If this is food for a day, and presumably to be repeated. then I think you are about to embark on a fad diet that is not going to provide you with the full range of vitamins and micronutrients necessary for a healthy diet and could damage your health in the meanwhile.

Now I realise this, I am not going to do or say anything that can be seen as enabling you to embark on this dangerously unbalanced meal plan.

If you want to loose weight, first check that you are really overweight. The best measure is to measure your waist. If it is 34 inches or less then you do not need to lose weight. If you do need to lose weight then follow the Mediterraanean diet

I suspect that you are in the US as you talk of 'cups' as a food measuremnt, so here is a link to a reputable US medical site my.clevelandclinic.org/health/articles/16037-mediterranean-diet

Thank you for your kind message. According to the Ideal Weight Calculator located at calculator(dot)net a 51-year-old man who is 5'9 should weigh between 151.9 and 159.4 lbs depending on the formula one uses. As such, I selected 155 pounds as the ideal weight as it's kind of in the middle. I see now that this was a horrible mistake on my part.

According to the same website, a man of my age and height who does light exercise and weighs 155 lbs should eat 2,129 calories per day to maintain weight a 155 lbs weight. It was my belief that if one ate the correct number of calories for the weight one wished to be, one would slowly, over the course of perhaps many months (or even years) eventually reach that weight.

But, you have dissuaded me. I see now that my 27.3 BMI is perfectly acceptable because my waist size is 32 inches. I can also see now that planning to eat lean meat, broccoli, and oats with a bit of healthy oils was a recklessly dangerous idea — a fad diet of the most horrible kind. I see now that these are foods that one should eschew. I have sworn right this moment on my dead ancestors' graves that I will never again eat oats, chicken, or broccoli. I have come to my senses and will now center my diet round Yorkshire Pudding, Trifle, Treacle Tart, and Jammy Dodgers. These are far better choices than a few cups of broccoli for sure.

I'm positive this will be the best way to help me with my "loose weight." Or did you mean lose?

I wouldn't put that combination in a slow cooker.

The broccoli will disintegrate.

Zosimus don't be silly. I recommended the mediterranean diet, as promulgated by a reputable US source and it will include chicken, broccoli and oats.

What is a Jammy Dodger?

I will pass over your last comment. It is so petty.

Zosimus

I am looking to create a recipe that contains:

* chicken breast
* broccoli
* oats
* a healthy oil

that can be cooked in a crockpot and that contains 2100 calories.

How can I know what proportions of which ingredient I should use? I'm an overweight body builder hoping to slim down while getting enough protein. I have selected oats because I believe they are very filling. I like spicy food, so I would be open to including such spices as cayenne peppers.

I got the idea from Dr. Mike, but I don't know what he means by "a healthy oil." What oils are healthy?

I've been trying to track my "macros" (carbohydrates, protein, fat) but I'm hampered by the fact that my wife makes my dinner, and I can never predict how many calories that meal will have, so I cannot plan the rest of my meals to come to the right number of calories.

2100 calories is the maintenance calories for my intended weight of 155 lbs.

I can't make a recipe for a crockpot, but you could fry the chicken.

Blender the oats into flour, add salt and pepper, paprika, grated parm.

Flatten chicken, dip in egg, dip in mix of oats etc.

Fry in olive oil. Roast broccoli with a tiny bit of oil.

Remove chicken - keep warm.

Add broth or white wine plus some chopped basil, boil up the fried bits, add cream, parm, and pepper = sauce.

Serve sauce over chicken. Broccoli on the side.

Could add hot pepper to sauce or mushrooms that you slice and cook.

I wonder if you actually need to lose weight?

My healthy, slim, short husband weighs 150-160 day dependent, small waist. He has a fair amount of muscles because of his work and our dog walks.

He exercises daily and stays in shape.

His BMI is impacted by muscle weight, not body fat.

It doesn't seem as if you'd be fat either.

You are clearly having a laugh , presumably at “the old dears’ “ expense.

Stick to the Jammy Dodgers, you can’t go far wrong, perhaps a wee Tunnocks Caramel Wafer too.

Jammy Dodgers, treacle tart and custard, Yorkshire puds, add liberal amounts of cream, fry-ups, chocolate bars and Bob's your uncle, Fanny's your aunt, can't go wrong.

You'll be joining those ancestors sooner than you think! 🙂

Perhaps, make oat flour from your oatmeal - then make waffles using eggs, milk, olive oil, vanilla, sugar, salt, baking powder.

Fry chicken, serve on top with gravy.

Are we really going along with this nonsense?

RosiesMaw2

Are we really going along with this nonsense?

Yes, sprinkling kindness

RosiesMaw2

Are we really going along with this nonsense?

Oh my goodness, is it nonsense?

I would never have realised!

The best British food for weight loss is Steak and kidney pudding.

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