Textured Easy Meal Ideas
Breakfast
- Toast with peanut butter, beans, egg – any type, pure fruit preserve.
- Bagel thin with scrambled egg, smoked salmon, low sugar jam.
- Mini breakfast – low fat bacon and sausage with egg or beans or a little of both.
- Crunchy cereal – shredded wheat, granola, muesli, Branflakes, Shreddies.
- Fruit salad – crunchy fruit with natural yoghurt.
- Crunchy cereal as above with pouring yoghurt.
- Muesli bar or breakfast biscuits.
Lunch
- Mini wrap with a choice of fillings- tuna mayo, ham salad, chicken and sweetcorn, low fat cheese and onion.
- Beans on toast.
- Mini pita stuffed with salad, 1 tsp low fat mayo and protein of your choice.
- Half a sandwich – with salad and healthy protein.
- Toasted thin with egg, shredded ham salad, tuna, low fat cheese, chicken etc.
- 2-3 crackers with low fat soft cheese and tomato, grated low fat cheese with spring onion, ham salad, tuna and sweetcorn – a variety of healthy toppings.
- Jacket potato with low fat cheese, tuna , leftover chilli with a little salad on the side – remember to eat the skin.
Evening meal
- Fish, chicken, meat - lean with salad or veg and new pots.
- Curry, chilli with rice – keep the veg on the crunchy side.
- Fajitas – nice and textured – remember the 20+ rule.
- Cooked chicken with a mini flatbread and salad.
- Chop with crunchy veg and mash (the mash is ok provided you have a little bit of chop or crunchy veg with each mouthful).
- Lean beef steak with mushrooms and rice.
- Sirloin steak with sweet potato fries and crunchy veg.
- Stir fry – choose your protein and veg, add a little soy sauce and serve with rice.
- Prawn pasta – stir fried prawns with onion and peppers – mix with pasta, add a little lemon juice and black pepper and serve.
