Six Small Meals a Day, 250 cals each

[goldfinch]

My husband makes great soups that are low fat and low calorie. For example:

Boil maybe a quart of water. Throw in some quinoa. Or mung daal or other quick cooking bean. Just a couple of ounces. If you want the carbs, put in some rice or pasta. Again, just a small amount. If you use brown rice you would cook that ahead of time as the daal and quinoa cooks fast, maybe 15 minutes. My spouse uses a bit of salt. I use a bit of chicken bouillon. Throw in some raisins.

Boil this up.

Add cubes of winter squash. Be generous! Cook for a bit. Add in quicker cooking veggies, like asparagus or greens. Or tomatoes. Or whatever vegetables you have on hand. I favor chard or asparagus.

Put in some roasted pumpkin seeds, if you can handle them. Don't roast in fat. My husband just tosses a few into a hot iron pan and stirs them until they get a bit brown and some make kind of a popping noise.

Put in your favorite curry mix to taste. My husband does take a small amount of ghee and heats the spices up in the ghee before adding to the soup. The amount is very small so it doesn't really make the soup fatty. The smell of precooking the spices in ghee may bother you so I'd skip that part. If I make the soup I am lazy and I just dump in his premade curry mix of one type or another. Sometimes we add a little hot sauce.

From start to finish it takes only 15 to 20 minutes.