did a search and got a few ideas... im getting pretty tired of tuna,ham,turkey sandwiches. 3 times a day

Protein shakes keep me going. I get chocolate whey/casein protein to have with 1% milk, and vanilla whey protein to have with juices. Then I can have a peanut butter or PB & honey sandwhich or breakfast cereal, or a cinnamon-raison bagel, etc. and still get my precious protein.

Aside from that, I buy frozen cooked medium shrimp whenever they go on sale to put on salads, or the jumbo ones if there's a really good sale. I also like putting cold cooked salmon on salads. I use Paul Newman's Olive Oil/Vinegar or Lime dressing on these, but I'm going to experiment with his Ginger Soy dressing this week.

Depending on how you feel about soy, some breakfast cereals are fortified with it and have very high protein. Kashi makes one that is good if you can deal with the lack of sugar/salt. I'm going to use soy but very sparingly, and you can search this forum for some of the concerns recently discussed regarding heavy soy protein use, especially among men.

You can buy chicken and marinate, then sauté it in strips. This can be refridgerated, and used for a couple days for green or pasta salads.

Oh yeah, pasta salads! Good with seafood or chicken. I like angel hair pasta with shrimp or scallops - spicier red sauce for the shrimp, garlic/oil for the scallops.

Ok, that's what I can think of off the top of my head.

Cottage cheese is a great source of protein. Sometimes I eat nuts, boiled eggs, jerky and the like as well.

Make waffles and dump some micellar casein in there. I don't know what it's like with the heat applied. But yeah when you think about it, you have eggs-protein, milk-protein, protein powder-protein of course, and then flour-but for personal reasons I choose buckwheat, but that's a little harder to do...it doesnt stick right. and you have to scrape it out of there, yuck. Maybe there is good recipe with it.

Clif Builder bars

Clif Builder bars
That's soy:eek:

That's soy:eek:

Yes, and it's delicious.

did a search and got a few ideas... im getting pretty tired of tuna,ham,turkey sandwiches. 3 times a day


Dry curd or "pressed" cottage cheese is excellent, with 24 g of protein, 3 g of carbs, and 0.5 g of fat per 1/2 cup.

http://www.organicmeadow.com/ope.sz?cid=38#mid

You can make a great cheesecake with it:

3 eggs
1/3 cup honey
1/2 cup plain yogurt
2 cups dry curd cottage cheese
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1-2 teaspoons grated lemon rind

Put all ingredients in a blender or food processor and blend until smooth. Pour into a lof pan and bake in oven at 350 degrees F for about 30 minutes, or until edges are brown. Cool and refridgerate.

Yes, and it's delicious.

Ah true. Chocolate mint is my favorite.:o

My high protein recipe:

Two cans tuna in water
One bottle hot sauce
Can opener
Fork

Open the tuna, drain the water, dump in the hotsauce, fork it down the gullet.

My high protein recipe:

Two cans tuna in water
One bottle hot sauce
Can opener
Fork

Open the tuna, drain the water, dump in the hotsauce, fork it down the gullet.



Any concern about mercury in the tuna so frequently?

Go the the milk section of your supermarket. There should be a product there
that is protein fortified milk. It will say something like 2% with the taste of whole milk
or skim with the taste of 1%.

A tall glass of that packs in a lot of protein...

Do you know how to cook? For dinner buy 6 ounce portions of fish. At my supermarket you can even get them marinated.

You can add meat to TV dinners. Canned chicken is handy, microwave and then throw in some extra meat
just before you serve.

Any concern about mercury in the tuna so frequently?


Not as much concern as I would have with the preservatives, simple sugars, and chemicals in most of the other suggestions.

How about Protien and DESERT at the same time?

http://www.precisionnutrition.com/desserts.html By Dr. John M. Berardi, Ph.D.

(It's free)

Boiled Edamame sprinkled with a little sea salt on the pods as soon as they're finished. Shell the beans and enjoy! The sodium isn't too bad since most of it stays on the pods and it's just enough to coat your fingers. A 1/2 cup serving of shelled beans is 100 calories, 8 grams protein, and 3 grams dietary fiber. You can eat them cold after they're cooked too, but I really only like them hot. They're served as an appetizer in most Japanese restauraunts if you've never had them.

I also like the Morning Star Black Bean Burgers. They're vegetarian and made with TVP, but man are they good, especially on whole grain wheat bread with a slice of Chipotle cheddar cheese! They cook in 1-1/2 minutes too, so it's really fast and easy.

Have both together and your packing in some serious protein in less than ten minutes.

I'm not a vegetarian, I just really like those "burgers." :-)

Cornish Hen

Boiled Edamame sprinkled with a little sea salt on the pods as soon as they're finished. Shell the beans and enjoy! The sodium isn't too bad since most of it stays on the pods and it's just enough to coat your fingers. A 1/2 cup serving of shelled beans is 100 calories, 8 grams protein, and 3 grams dietary fiber. You can eat them cold after they're cooked too, but I really only like them hot. They're served as an appetizer in most Japanese restauraunts if you've never had them.



+1 on the edamame. They're one of my favorite snacks!

Steak, Porterhouse.

Cottage cheese on toast / english muffin, with some preserves is good too.

Teriyaki Beef Jerky. Avoid all MSG and other unnatural ingredients when choosing.

I like scrambled egg whites myself. All protein and easy to digest

hard boiled eggs are awesome. just buy a dozen, cook them up, and then put them back in the fridge and pop one in whenever you need a protien blast. it's like a big food pill.

6 ounces grilled ribeye! or filet mignon... or strip steak... or t-bone...

Tuna and avocado. White, low salt albacore tuna in water. Open can. Drain water. Give water to cat. Dump tuna in bowl. Add some olive oil and balsamic vinegar and stir just enough to break tuna into large lumps. Dump tuna on top of halved and peeled avocado. Good for a light lunch.

Marinate chicken breasts in italian dressing. Grill. Slice and eat on top of mixed greens salad with sliced almonds, red bell pepper, blanched broccoli, etc., and oil & vinegar. I have this for lunch 2-3 x per week. I started doing this at the cafeteria at work, and now lots of people ask the grill guy for sliced chicken breasts for their salad.

I also like the "enhanced" protein shakes. After evening rides, I'm never really hungry, and most nights a protein shake with banana and lots of chopped ice is just what I want. For a little bulk, I eat some flat bread crackers with red pepper hummus.

Buy refrigerated or forzen meat filled ravioli. Costco is cheapest and some place like Whole Foods is most expensive (and best!). Put some low fat pasta sauce on it and eat, or put ravioli on bed of mixed greens or baby spinach with oil & vinager. You can make up a big batch on weekends, and eat cold on salad during the week.

There are tons of things that you can make that are high protein and low fat (and salt).

Skirt steak and eggs.

Any concern about mercury in the tuna so frequently?

Just avoid "albacore" tuna and you'll probably be OK. Albacore has nearly three times as much mercury as "canned light tuna".

http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/admehg3.html

Here's a mercury exposure calculator (http://www.gotmercury.org/). You enter your weight, the type of fish you eat each week, and how much, and it will calculate your mercury intake compared to EPA/FDA guidelines.

Surprisingly, at my weight, 8 oz of albacore tuna per week would put me at 150% of the EPA limit.

And even 16 oz of the safer "canned light" tuna would put me right at the weekly limit for mercury exposure.

Sardines or eggs or milk or salmon

chicken n bean stew

peanut butter and jelly sandwich

Boiled Edamame sprinkled with a little sea salt on the pods as soon as they're finished. Shell the beans and enjoy! The sodium isn't too bad since most of it stays on the pods and it's just enough to coat your fingers. A 1/2 cup serving of shelled beans is 100 calories, 8 grams protein, and 3 grams dietary fiber. You can eat them cold after they're cooked too, but I really only like them hot. They're served as an appetizer in most Japanese restauraunts if you've never had them.

I also like the Morning Star Black Bean Burgers. They're vegetarian and made with TVP, but man are they good, especially on whole grain wheat bread with a slice of Chipotle cheddar cheese! They cook in 1-1/2 minutes too, so it's really fast and easy.

Have both together and your packing in some serious protein in less than ten minutes.

I'm not a vegetarian, I just really like those "burgers." :-)

8 grams of protein per serving does not qualify as "really packing in some serious protein" I would need to eat 6 cups of edamame (really just like any other bean) to get in the neighborhood of my daily protein needs.

I like Edamame but like one person suggested its way more practical to pop a can of tuna or better yet canned Alaskan salmon.

I find a nice quick protein-full snack to be a bowl of cottage cheese with sliced tofu dogs and a spoonful or two of good, fresh salsa.

Sushi. Skip the rice if you're anti-carb.

Sushi. Skip the rice if you're anti-carb.
that's sashimi...

Hmmm...learn something new everyday. I stand corrected.