List of Favorites... come add yours!

I am always on the lookout for new yummy things and it helps to hear other's opinions. I thought it would be helpful and fun for everyone to list some of their favorites...

Cold Cereal -

Yogurt -

Bread -

Veggie -

Frozen Entree -

Breakfast Bar -

Fruit -

Dessert -

Oatmeal -

Dinner you prepare-

Healthy Restaurant Entree -

Breakfast you prepare -

Any other favorites you want to share...  

Cold Cereal - Fiber One (not for the taste but for the fiber)

Yogurt - (rarely eat yogurt)

Bread - La Tortilla Factory Tortillas (wish I didn't have to drive 35 miles to get them!)

Veggie - broccoli and califlower

Frozen Entree - Bird-Eye Three Cheese stir fry

Breakfast Bar - don't eat them

Fruit - nectarines and pears

Dessert - orange sherbet

Oatmeal - homemade with raisins, brown sugar and milk

Dinner you prepare- Tilapia with 1/2 baked potato and steamed broccoli

Healthy Restaurant Entree - Applebee's Lime Tilapia

Breakfast you prepare - scrambled eggs and buttered toast

Any other favorites you want to share... mixed nuts!

Cold Cereal -  None

Yogurt - Yoplait Thick & Creamy Light Strawberry (100 cals)

Bread - Nature's Own Honey Wheat Light (40 cals per slice)

Veggie - Raw Carrots

Frozen Entree - Almost all Lean Cuisines; especailly Mac & Beef & Fiesta Chicken w/ santa fe rice

Breakfast Bar - Kashi Almond & Flax (I think 110 cals)

Fruit - Grapes

Dessert - Jell-0 sugar free Chocolate mint (60 cals)

Oatmeal - Quaker low sugar Strawberries & Cream (I think 130 cals)

Dinner you prepare- Chicken EVERYTHING!

Healthy Restaurant Entree - Ha.  

Breakfast you prepare - Egg white on Thomas Light English Muffin w/ 1/2 an ounce of cabot 50% light white cheddar & 1 piece of canadian bacon

Any other favorites you want to share...  

Cold cereal - all bran with almonds chopped apples and cinnamon

Yogurt - Stoneyfield lowfat

Bread - Brownberry whole wheat

Veggie - spinach

Frozen entree -

Breakfast bar - Balance Gold Peanut Butter

Fruit - peaches/berries/melons/bananas/oranges/

Dessert - skinny cow vanilla ice cream sandwich

Oatmeal - rolled oats with flaxseed/dried fruit/toasted almonds

Dinner you prepare - chicken stir-fry

Healthy restaurant entree - broiled fish asparagus and rice pilaf

Breakfast you prepare - whole wheat pancakes loaded with nonfat yogurt and diced fruit

Other favorites - string cheese/ banana smoothies/ lowfat cottage cheese with fruit or veggies mixed in

Cold Cereal -  Kashi GoLean

Yogurt - I usually eat the store-brand fat-free

Bread - Nature's Own whole wheat w/double fiber

Veggie - Broccoli

Frozen Entree - I never really eat those anymore

Breakfast Bar - I don't really eat those, unless the occasional granola bar counts. . .

Fruit - Probably either strawberries, watermelons, or green apples. . . not easy to pick. . .

Dessert - Chocolate cake (made the Diet Coke way) with fat-free Cool Whip on top (all the chocolate, none of the guilt!)

Oatmeal - I'm into the fruit and cream kinds right now, but my old standby is cinnamon-spice. . . yeah, I know I should eat the oats in the can, but I like the ones in the packets!

Dinner you prepare- Boneless-skinless chicken (preferably grilled, but browned in the skillet without oil or butter is okay, too), asparagus with lemmon-pepper, corn, little green peas, possibly mashed potato if I can afford it that day

Healthy Restaurant Entree - Does the Asian chicken salad (with grilled chicken) at the McDonald's count?

Breakfast you prepare - Usually I just eat cereal or oatmeal

Any other favorites you want to share...  Homemade smoothies rock ^_^v !

Cold Cereal - I have two. Rice Krispies for low-cal/energy days. Only about 25g, with skim milk or Weetbix for normal days. Tiny bit of jam or honey if I need a pick me up.

Yogurt - I can't get low-fat yogurt here easily, but I like vanilla, then adding my own museli or fruit. Mmm mangos....

Bread - Wholemeal/grain. I used to have it all the time, jsut with butter, but now I love it around salad. But for decadent bread, the local foccacia or chilichese scroll from baker's delight

Veggie - Guy Lan. So good! Go chinese vegies!

Frozen Entree - Never really had one..

Breakfast Bar - Mmm, I got over these because most are high sugar. But I love museli and fruit bars.

Fruit - Oooo, love fruit! Mango is the best, but I love strawberries, watermelon, rock and honey dew melon too!

Dessert - Haha, time to pick something decadent. Chocolate anything. Mud cake, pudding, plain lindt chocolate. But no mousse. But for guilt free? Fruit or jelly.

Oatmeal - Mmm, just plain. Or adding strawberries.

Dinner you prepare- Stirfries. Love them. With chicken, guylan, babycorn, little mushrooms, capsicum, onion, brocolli, and a little oyster or soy sauce. Side of rice.

Healthy Restaurant Entree - That's a hard one. I usually pick the healthiest for dinner!

Breakfast you prepare - Mmm oatmeal. Or pancakes.

Cold Cereal - tropical museli with soy or skim milk

Yogurt - Yoplait strawberry no fat / Nestle french vanilla

Bread - turkish, ploughmans, sourdough, french, anything freshly baked

Veggie - any but especially spinach, mushrooms inc. fungus, carrots, cucumber, diakon radish, sweet potato, pumpkin, corn

Frozen Entree - none

Breakfast Bar - none

Fruit - anything fresh especially apples - golden delicious  fuji, oranges, honeydew /canteloupe, dragonfruit, starfruit, all the berry varieties, kiwi / gooseberries, tangelos, plums, peaches, nectarines.

Drink - tonic, mineral or soda water, Sustagen, Ovaltine

Dessert - fresh fruit, sponge cake

Oatmeal - porridge

Dinner you prepare- noodles & soup (beef / veggie / chicken broth based)

Healthy Restaurant Entree - white fish, shellfish, tortoise

Breakfast you prepare - plain pancakes with vegemite

Other - lean beef topside, tripe and other offal, venision, emu, elk, kangaroo, congor eel, snakes, frog/toad legs, hairy & Shanghai crab, sea cucumber, sea snails, squid, cuttlefish

Cold Cereal - my homemade granola, or Nature's Path Optimum Slim or Optimum Power with soy milk & frozen blueberries.

Yogurt - Straus organic plain. The whey doesn't separate like with other brands.

Bread - homemade out of my bread machine from organic flour (flour is one of the foods highest in pesticides). But I always have Ezekiel Bread Cinnamon Raisin english muffins on hand (made from organic whole sprouted grains). great with almond butter.

Veggie - broccoli. barely steamed with a little fresh lemon juice. and little red potatoes rubbed with olive oil and salt and baked.

Frozen Entree - Whole Foods tuna or salmon burgers. Leftover homemade chili or soup.

Breakfast Bar - Lara Bars. They're raw, no wheat, no dairy, no soy, no added chemical vitamins, VERY simple ingredient list (like my favorite, cherry pie flavor, is dates, almonds, unsweetened cherries).

Fruit - nectarines & peaches when it's stone fruit season, braeburn apples this time of year, oranges in January.

Dessert - Straus Organic Dutch Chocolate Ice Cream. Oh my! Low cal? definitely not!

Oatmeal - Bob's Red Mill Organic Old Fashioned. with a little stevia, cinnamon, vanilla added to the water when cooking. 1T ground flax, walnuts, chopped apples, soymilk when done cooking.

Dinner you prepare- chicken chili, teriyaki salmon or tuna bowls (recipe in this post), guacamole chicken salad (recipe in this post)

Healthy Restaurant Entree - grilled salmon.

Breakfast you prepare - oatmeal pancakes (recipe in this post), soft boiled eggs with homemade multi-grain toast (my fav, had it this morning, yum!)

Any other favorites you want to share... 

way to sneak olive oil into my diet: mix 1 cup olive oil with 1 stick (1/2 cup) room temp butter in your food processor. store in glass container in fridge. great on toast & for cooking. mix with garlic for instant garlic butter.

way to sneak veggies in my diet: mix steamed cauliflower with boiled potatoes for sneaky healthy mashed spuds.

Cold Cereal- Kashi Go Lean, original or crunch

Yogurt: Yoplait fat free very cherry!!

Bread: Nature's oven Sunny Millet bread

veggie: broccoli or carrots

Frozen entree: lean cuisine brickhouse mushroom pizza

Breakfast bar: umm dont eat them

Fruit: APPLES!! and pineapple and grapes and watermelon and strawberries and raspberries and peaches and nectarines and plums and cantalope and pears and oranges and....*drools*

Dessert: umm chocolate cake. but now it would be raspberry sorbet.

oatmeal: kashi go lean hearty honey cinnamon

Dinner you prepare: tuna wrap made with lettuce garbanzo beans and a whole grain tortilla

Healthy restaurant entree: i dont eat out often...but soup i guess? or salad?

Any other favorites you want to share...Luna bars!

(Keep in mind I'm in Australia!)

Cold Cereal -Special K or Uncle Toby's Oat flakes

Yogurt - Yoplait Diet yogurt

Bread - Mountain bread, corn and oat variety (wraps)

Veggie -  Broccoli and brussels sprouts (cooked) green leafy lettuce and cucumbers (raw)

Frozen Entree - Individual steamed vegetable bags 

Breakfast Bar -  Ski Apple and Cinnamon bars (90cal!!)

Fruit - apples

Dessert -  weight watcher's diet jelly

Oatmeal -  Uncle Toby's Quick and Instant

Dinner you prepare- Steamed fish rubbed with herbs and lemon with steamed vegetables

Healthy Restaurant Entree - Don't usually have entrees

Breakfast you prepare - Oatmeal with skim milk, equal and blueberries or apples or strawberries mixed in YUM

Any other favorites you want to share... seeded Black Olives !! Add to salads or wraps and let the taste sensation take over!

I love these types of posts :)

Cold Cereal - I'm going to be different and NOT say Kashi.  My fave is plain ole bran flakes with some Splenda and ice cold skim milk.

Yogurt - Blue Bunny lite 85.  Taste great and come in a variety of exotic flavors.  My favorite is Pomegranite Blueberry.

Bread - Nature's Own 100% Whole Wheat, and Toufayan whole wheat pita bread.

Veggie - Sweet potatoes, cauliflower, brussels sprouts, corn, eggplant, pumpkin, potatoes, broccoli, yellow squash, butternut squash, zucchini.

Frozen Entree - Boca Burgers original vegan.  It's the only frozen food I eat.

Breakfast Bar - Ummm... to me the two words are an oxymoron.

Fruit - Bananas, fuji and jonagold apples, my mom's home-grown tomatoes.

Dessert - Now for me, a "dessert" is just a PB&J or something sweet like that, but in my previous unhealthy days, it used to be red velvet cake, birthday cake, brownies, or banana shakes.

Oatmeal - Old-fashioned oatmeal with skim milk, a little Smart Balance Light, Splenda, chopped up bananas, and toasted walnuts.  Other favorite variations include peanut butter and banana oatmeal, cinnamon walnut oatmeal, peanut butter oatmeal, and pumpkin pie oatmeal.  The possibilities are endless. 

Dinner you prepare- I love my easy lentil veggie stew.

Healthy Restaurant Entree - Grilled or broiled fish with veggies on the side.  Can't go wrong with that.

Breakfast you prepare - A great portable breakfast for me is PB2, sugar free jelly, and banana all smushed up in a whole wheat pita.  I have this almost every day and I'm not sick of it yet.  I also love my many oatmeal combinations.

EDIT: the other day I made the BEST cornmeal blueberry muffins.  They were so moist and delicious, with almost NO FAT.  I was quite proud of myself. :)

Cold Cereal - Nature's Plus Raisin Bran w. Flax

Yogurt - Full-fat fage with cherry preserves or honey...but that's a rare treat. I stick to the fat-free fage most of the time.

Bread - The Baker's Inn 9 Grain

Veggie - steamed sugar snap peas, yum!

Frozen Entree - lean cuisine butternut squash

Breakfast Bar - thinkthin chocolate mudslide

Fruit - pluot

Dessert - pastries, chocolates, cookies....etc.

Oatmeal - kashi golden maple

Dinner you prepare- brown rice, baked fish/chicken, & steamed veggies

Healthy Restaurant Entree - garden salad w. fat-free dressing

Breakfast you prepare - low-cal french toast! hungrygirl's recipe.

Granted I dont do a lot of the listed carbs anymore but when I dieted with them....

Cold Cereal - cinnamon life

Yogurt - Yoplait used make breakfast yougart with wheat puffs in it

Bread - lowest cal

Veggie - fresh mushrooms sauted

Frozen Entree - Southbeach Savory beef & Caprese Chicken

Breakfast Bar - Quaker chewy Oatmeal, taste like a cookie

Fruit - mango

Dessert - sugarfree fudgsicles

Oatmeal - w/ cinnamon, equal and flooded with milk

Dinner you prepare- boiled shrimp, black beans and chopped onion

Healthy Restaurant Entree - Macaroni Grill Chicken with asparagus

Breakfast you prepare - Southbeach American wraps (I prepare them in the microwave)

Any other favorites you want to share...  nope thats it

Cold Cereal -  Go Lean Cinnamon Cereal

Yogurt -  Light and Fit Vanilla

Bread -  Honey light wheat (only 40 calories with good whole grains inside)!

Veggie -  Cabbage cooked with chicken broth

Frozen Entree -  Lean Cuisine Sweet and Sour Chicken

Breakfast Bar -  Cascade Trail Mix

Fruit -   A Fresh Mango (they taste amazing)!

Dessert -  A tasty Berries and light rasberry sorbet with frozen edy's slow churned vanilla yogurt on top (its really good)!!

Oatmeal -  Peaches and cream oat meal

Dinner you prepare-  Asparagus with salmon

Healthy Restaurant Entree -  Red snapper

Breakfast you prepare -  Egg whites with cheese or light crèpes (very light but with taste). 

Cold Cereal - cheerios, corn bran squares, cinnamon puffins, museli, alphabets:P

Yogurt - stoneyfield organic vanilla or plain..with fresh peaches.


Bread - this multigrain stuff from a local bakery we use at work. delish :D

Veggie - asparagus, broccoli, spagehtti squash, tomatos and avacados (yes, i know theyre actually fruits), carrots, "baby" corn and green beans.

Frozen Entree - anyting from amy's organics.

Breakfast Bar - luna bars in smore or caramel nut brownie. or homemade cranberry chocolate chip oatmeal bars.

Fruit - ambroisa, granny smith or gala apples (i live in an orchard community :P) blueberries, honeydew, peaches, nectarines, suger babies, bananas, cantalope, raspberries, pineapple, pears...havent really met a fruit i dont like. except mangos.

Dessert - fruit or oatmeal cookies.


Oatmeal - quick oats with vanilla soymilk, apples, cinnamon and brown suger

Dinner you prepare- steamed broccoli with becel and herbamare.

Healthy Restaurant Entree - miso soup, edamame, califorinia roll and a veggie roll :D haha


Breakfast you prepare - some kind of fruit smoothie (orange juice, vanilla yogurt, frozen blackberries and banana)  or the aforementioned oatmeal.


Any other favorites you want to share -edamame

(edited for current relavance. :P)

Cold Cereal - Honey Bunches of Oats Vanilla or Cinnamon Clusters (and every other cereal in existence)

Yogurt - anything blueberry, vanilla, or coffee!!1

Bread - whole grain wheat

Veggie - broccoli

Frozen Entree - Stouffer's Vegetable Lasagna

Breakfast Bar - something with vanilla or strawberry yogurt on the bottom

Fruit - blueberries

Dessert - I don't really like dessert.

Oatmeal - quaker oatmeal maple and brown sugar

Dinner you prepare- peanut butter sandwich!

Healthy Restaurant Entree - grilled chicken breast sandwich with tons of mustard

Breakfast you prepare - cheese omelette in a tortilla shell

Cold Cereal - Cheerios (Actually I love all cereals, Special K with fruit and yogurt is super good too)

Yogurt - Dannon Light and Fit Peach/Vanilla

Bread - Don't really have one but the honey light wheat sounds really good =)

Veggie - Baby Carrots or tomatoes (and don't start with the fruit or veggie battle on that =P)


Frozen Entree - Cheese Pizza on Garlic Bread (Can't eat it anymore =(  )

Breakfast Bar - Apple Soyjoy or Special K bars

Fruit - Apples

Dessert - CHEESECAKE!!!!!

Oatmeal - Peaches and Cream

Dinner You Prepare - Grilled Chicken Wraps with a salad

Healthy Restaurant Entree - Any chicken breast stuff

Breakfast You Prepare - Fruit Smoothie or Egg white omelette with swiss, broccoli, and spinach (and turkey pepperoni sometimes)

Cold Cereal - Cheerios (original)


Yogurt - Fat free Fage (with Splenda and unsweetened cocoa)


Bread - Wonder Light Italian, Pepperidge Farms Very Thin White


Veggie -  Baby carrots, broccoli, asparagus, the list goes on ...



Frozen Entree - Amy's Shepards or Tamale pies


Breakfast Bar - Gnu Oatmeal Raisin or Brownie or Larabar Chocolate Coconut

Fruit - Strawberries, grapes, apples, blueberries, raspberries, cantaloupe, bananas, watermelon, peaches, kiwis, cherries ... I don't think I've met a fruit I didn't like!


Dessert - Deep Chocolate Vita Tops (when I'm being healthy), Edwards' Hershey's Sundae Pie (when I'm not being healthy but still holding myself accountable for calories, they come individually package at 290 calories a slice, and boy are they delicious), Birthday cake (when I just don't care ... any kind as long as the frosting is yummy and NOT whipped!)


Oatmeal -  Quaker Weight Control Cinnamon Sugar


Dinner you prepare- I'll say a stir-fry with shrimp, veggies, shirataki noodles, kung pao seasoning, and soy sauce because I do make a delicious stir-fry. However, I am not really one to cook often (I'm talking once every few months, MAYBE) so to be honest it would be wraps, sandwiches, salads


Healthy Restaurant Entree - Dragonfire Chicken from TGI Fridays or the Fajita Pita from Chili's (it's 450 calories but I ask for no sauce and for a side of pico de gallo instead. the sauce is mayo-based so I'm sure my substitution saves some calories)


Breakfast you prepare - scrambled egg beaters, light toast, and fruit (healthy) or chocolate chip pancakes (NOT healthy but if you see what I wrote above about cooking, this obviously isn't an issue too often!)


Any other favorites you want to share - peanut butter & co peanut butter (dark chocolate dreams or white chocolate wonderful) on wasa

Cold Cereal - special k vanilla almond with light vanilla soy milk

Yogurt - dannon light n fit vanilla

Bread - wonder bread low cal wheat, 40 cals per slice!

Veggie - spinach, broccoli

Frozen Entree - morningstar tomato basil pizza burgers or garden veggie burgers

Breakfast Bar - special k high protein cereal bars, in choc, pb, or cinnamon raisin

Fruit - blueberries, strawberries, graperfruit, plums

Dessert - sugarfree creamsicles and fudgsicles, vitamuffins and vitabrownies!

Oatmeal - quaker oats weight control cinnamon or banana bread

Dinner you prepare- chicken with grill mates marinade on my george forman grill =)

Healthy Restaurant Entree - ?

Breakfast you prepare - egg white omlet w/peppers, onions, tomatoes

Any other favorites you want to share...SALSA!!! i use it as salad dressing.. cottage cheese, crystal light on the go packages

Cold Cereal - Special K Original, with skim milk and an occasional packet of Splenda added for taste.

Yogurt - Dannon Light & Fit, fat free yogurt; vanilla, raspberry, or strawberry-banana.

Bread - Nature's Own 100% Whole Wheat, or 2x Fiber.

Veggie - Pea Pods, Corn(unbuttered), Green Beans, Bamboo Shoots, and Carrots.

Frozen Entree - Lean Cuisine; Chicken Enchilada with Suiza Sauce, Thai-Style Chicken, and Three-Cheese Ravvioli.

Breakfast Bar - Wild Oats Organics; Apple Cinnomon or Wild Berry.

Fruit - Mango, Papya, Banana, Pineapple, and Blueberries.

Dessert - Fat-Free Rainbow Shorbet.

Oatmeal - Quaker Instant Oats; plain, with a teaspoon of cinnomon, a teaspoon of honey, and a sprinkle of raisins.

Dinner you prepare- Whole Wheat flatbread pizza with skim-milk mozterella cheese, and sun-dried tomatos.

Healthy Restaurant Entree - 1/2 Turkey Sandwich on Multi-Grain bread at Paradise Cafe.

Breakfast you prepare - Buckwheat, wholegrain pancakes, served with Aunt Jemima's Light Maple Syrup and strawberries.

This is pretty interesting reading ...

Cold Cereal - Fruit muesli

Yogurt - Aplro peach (soya)

Bread - Rye

Veggie - Carrot

Frozen Entree - I dunno what an "entree" is LOL

Breakfast Bar - Never eat them

Fruit - Blackberries

Dessert - Vanilla soya ice cream with banana, maple syrup and peanut butter

Oatmeal - The sugary instant ones

Dinner you prepare - Lasagne

Healthy Restaurant Entree - I still dunno what one of those is ...

Breakfast you prepare - Fruit smoothie