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I think its worth thinking about healthy eating and lower calorie eating as seperate things.
For healthy eating, variety is good, but variety is my enemy for sticking on diet.A planned cheat meal is useful for damage limitation, and makes up for the boring eating during the week.
Rice is actually quite calorie dense for its volume, so you can eat through a greater volume of rice than noodles and pasta. Cook 100g of dry pasta, noodles and rice, and compare the size difference (can make a difference if your appetite is very visual)
Sometimes the boredom of the meal is tied with having to actually prepare the meal.
I've got a couple of mini cheat meals in the freezer which won't derail the diet due to not being excessive in calories, but something better than takeaway food.Frozen portions of:
Korean Spicy Pork (700 caories with 80g of steamed rice)
Korean Bulgogi - (600 calories with 80g of steamed rice)
Pizza express sloppy giuseppe small pizza (656 calories)
Frozen ikea meatballs and hash browns (600 calories for 5 hashbrowns and 9 meatballs)And some quick emergency comfort foods:
Nongshim Shin ramen - (600 calories with a poached egg and some added spring onions and dash of sesame oil)
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With the healthy eating, how do you guys keep things interesting? Any good resources for recipes? Maybe I'll do a Saturday/Sunday cheat.
As much as I love chicken/salmon/turkey with rice, I can see myself getting bored after a few months.