See your doctor for approval before starting any new eating program.
When starting Let’s Do Lunch, if you’re a breakfast eater, you should start out each day with a big breakfast consisting of Craving-Buster Breakfast Foods. A few of these Craving-buster Breakfast foods follow:
Bowl of your favorite Whole Grain Cereal (delicious with banana slices, strawberry slices, blueberries, etc. on top, sweetened with your favorite diet sweetener)
Eggs…eat as many as your Doctor will allow
Extra-lean Turkey Bacon…eat as much as you want
Extra-lean Canadian Bacon…eat as much as you want
Let’s Do Lunch GROUND-CHICKEN SAUSAGES… eat until full (these sausages Taste like the Best Pork Sausages you have ever eaten!)
8 oz ground chicken breast (skinless)
½ cup drained & mashed pinto beans
1 egg (use Egg Beaters)
2 tsp Morton’s Sausage and Meatloaf Seasoning Mix (this seasoning mix Makes Chicken Taste Exactly Like Pork Sausage…if your local grocery store doesn’t have this, you can order it…630-595-8919)
Beat egg with fork. Mix in chicken, beans & seasoning. Let set to thicken. Make into patties and fry on grill or pan sprayed with olive oil… makes 4 patties.
Butter-bean Potato Cakes…eat until full (these Potato Cakes taste Better than regular potatoes!)
3 cans LARGE Butter Beans (do Not use SMALL butter beans), cooked & drained
1 cup frozen corn kernels, defrosted & drained well
1/3 cup finely chopped onion
1/3 cup finely diced green bell pepper
3 or 4 T of 99% fat-free chicken broth
Mash or blend the butter beans in a large bowl. Add the chicken broth & blend until they’re smooth & creamy. Add all of the other ingredients & stir together. Refrigerate the mixture for an hour or two before proceeding to the next step. Make into patties, approx. 1/3 cup each. This will make 11 or 12 patties. Heat a skillet on medium/high with 2 T olive oil and cook patties on one side until browned. Turn over and cook on the other side until browned.
Butter-bean Mashed Potatoes…eat until full, with Eggs On Top (these Mashed Potatoes taste Better than regular potatoes!)
3 cans LARGE Butter Beans (do Not use SMALL butter beans), cooked & drained
as much as needed of 99% fat-free chicken broth
Mash or blend the butter beans in a large bowl. Add the chicken broth & blend until they’re smooth & creamy.
Refried Beans…delicious, and eat until full (heat in the micro and then spread out on your breakfast plate with Eggs on top…I like mine “over easy” and then I break the yolks)
Real Foods Original Corn Thins…deeelicious & eat as many as you want (large, round, crisp & eaten like bread)
Your favorite Whole Grain Crispbread…delicious, and eat as many as needed, with your eggs, sausages and potato cakes (or with any other breakfast foods)
Apple Pie Smoothie…delicious, and drink as many as you want
1 frozen banana
½ peeled, chopped apple (freeze if you like your smoothie thick!)
1 cup 100% apple juice, non-sweetened
½ teaspoon cinnamon
Pinch of nutmeg
This is a yummy twist on smoothies, if you love apple pie! Control the consistency by adding more or less chopped apple. A sure cure any sweet tooth you might have left.
Tropical Breeze Smoothie…delicious, and drink as many as you want
1 frozen banana
4-5 frozen strawberries (no sugar added)
½ cup unsweetened pineapple chunks
¼ cup 100% pineapple juice
¼ cup unsweetened orange juice
Blend well. If needed, add a small amount of non-fat milk if smoothie is too thick for you. Makes approximately 20 oz. of smoothie.
Popcorn-flour Pancakes…eat as many as you want(these Pancakes are Lighter and Better Tasting than regular pancakes!)
In large bowl:
2 eggs (use Egg Beaters and beat with whisk)
Add 1 tsp. Splenda
Add ½ cup no-fat skim milk
Add 1 ½ level tsp. baking powder
Stir until baking powder dissolves and batter becomes frothy
Add 2 cups of popcorn flour (see instructions below)
Stir until batter drops into small lumps
Use small amount of olive oil on heated griddle. Drop ¼ cup batter on griddle for each pancake. Serve with blended blueberries or strawberries that have been sweetened with Splenda.
To Make Popcorn Flour:
Place 1 cup at a time of popped popcorn loosely in Magic Bullet Blender (or equivalent). Blend until you have made 2 cups of finely ground popcorn flour.