Easy, Low Fat Food that Can Save A Triple Negative Life

Hi, everyone,

One way that I get a beef taste really lightened is to mix ground turkey with beef.  In our area we have a Laura's lean ground beef which is hormone and antibiotic free.  I get the leanest I can find which is about 4% fat.  I mix the ground beef with 99% fat free ground turkey breast.  Mix in a cup or so of oats, a couple of eggs, ground green pepper, celery and onion, salt, pepper, oregano, and basil.  Mix then up and divide them into 1 ounce portions.  You have really tasty low fat meat with more flavor than you can get with turkey alone.  I also serve my meat balls and sauce over zucchini instead of noodles.  It makes a very satisfying low calorie and low fat meal.

Here's another recipe that I absolutely LOVE!  Fresh lime juice is one of my favourite things - I just love the smell and the taste.  I used scallops instead of shrimp for the recipe a couple times and fried them on the stove and they turned out great. 

Grilled Lime Shrimp

1/2 teaspoon fresh lime zest

• 1/4-1/2 teaspoon cumin
• 1/2 teaspoon dried oregano
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon pepper
• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 2-3 tablespoons fresh squeezed lime juice
• 3 cloves garlic, minced

1 pound shelled deveined uncooked shrimp

Mix together the first 8 ingredients in a bowl. Add shrimp; toss to coat. Let stand at room temperature for 10 minutes to marinate. Thread shrimp on metal skewers; reserve marinade.

Place skewered shrimp on grill over medium heat. Cook 3-7 minutes or until shrimp turn pink, turning once and brushing with marinade occasionally.

Hi, I just found out I am triple neg.  That really threw me for a loop, more so than finding out I had cancer.  I asked my oncologist yesterday what my future looked like and he said, my PET scan is clear and if they find nothing in my nodes,  I have a good chance at 10 years!  Boy, that isn't what I have been reading..  Any input on that.  I was intending to have my chemo here in FL, but since finding this out, I think I will go to UCLA because my kids and grandkids like 150 miles north of LA.  This is one of the 10 top cancer centers in the US.  What have you all done?.

You wrote about chicken breast with a tasty sauce...   Just out of curiosity, how do you make a tasty sauce without BUTTER or Cheese?  haha..  I love to cook and eat.  What have you all heard about Asparagus Juice?  I am sipping some right now and isn't bad, but I like asparagus anyway. I asked my Oncologist yesterday about it and he said..it is very healthy and can't hurt.   I am 68, so running 5 miles a day maybe a bit much for me, but I have never run for my life before.  I have been short of breath for over 20 years...but I love to walk.  I started on my wiifit machine 2 days before I found my lump on August 1 2009.  Since then, I have lost 6.5 Lbs working out 30 minutes a day.  Should I be loosing weight like this before surgery and Chemo, do you think?  Guess I should be asking my Dr this.  Another Question, if my dr said my cancer is 3 x 2.5, what siize is it?  American Cancer Center wants a single diget to put in the questionaire.  I hate to ramble, but both my family and I are a bit upset..after the biopsy, I was told it was 1 cm and now there are saying this.  I was told I was a candidate for lumpectomy...REALLY?  I'm reading that people who are thriple negative strive to live 3 years and my Oncologist is telling me that I have a good chance tot 10 years???  I would appreciate any input you all may have.  Thanks  And God Bless all of you!

The "meals" are going to be a problem for me as I'm not the only one in my house and my husband is dead set on his pizza, friedd chicken, steak diet and everything smothered in gravy

( after many discussions / arguements over many years that his diet is awful, in which he disagrees and refuses to change, I give up and going to just work on my own diet and let him do his own thing).... so I'll have to stick to things like egg whites for protien and try to create a simple diet plan for myself. I've already set a place outside the kitchen for all his chips, cookies, cakes, pies, donuts, cupcakes and other snack foods so I'm not tempted to eat any of it due to convieience.

Have a vitamix and plan to do lots of smoothies, simple easy foods that are whole grain, high fiber

and just let my husband do his own thing, obtain and cook his own meals as to be honest, there is no changing him, his diet and even looking at what he eats makes me sick to my stomach.

If anyone wants to post a simple diet plan they are using thats EASY ( not too much cooking)

Breakfast:

Lunch:

dinner:

snack:

I would appriciate it as I need some ideas.

and also... a friend tells me TUMERIC shrinks tumors, anyone ever tried that? adding that spice to food? how did it go?

For breakfast I like to make an egg burrito, which you can load up with veggies.  

Tortilla - wheat, spinach - use whatever flavor you like

2 eggs  - you can do all egg whites or 1 egg and 1 egg white

This is where you can get extra veggies and vary things up........you can mix and match tomatoes, green onions, small amount of cheese, mushrooms, bell peppers, onions, spinach.  If you don't have time to cut seasoning you could buy the precut seasoning.

I cook the eggs mixed with all of the veggies that I'm using together, then fold it up in the burrito and enjoy! 

It takes me less than 10 min to make and if you're in a hurry - it can be eaten on the go.

Beth - I also have found that Amy's Organic Frozen dinners are great to have around when you're not wanting to cook.  They're are loaded with protien and dietary fibers and I think they taste great!

meggy this was alot of help i am tripple negitive i have herd about the sugar had no idea about the fats i have a lot to learn and read up on.

talking about  eating healthy i love pasta try making spagetie with spagetie squash cut in 1/2 boil tell its tender scoop it out cover with your spagetie sauce i like tomatoes tomato sauce onions bell pepper garlic mushrooms and spices my kids even eat it.

Paluldigmom

ya that might be easier lol thanks i guess i shoud have new everything else steams well.

Excellent Bump!

I have found Skinny Cow ice cream sandwiches to by uber delicious, and it's 2-4 grams of fat per serving. They have a great variety of flavors, and I can get them in our CVS as well as Safeway.

Meggy,

Keep the wonderful suggestions coming...I need all the help I can get!

Its a great thread, thankyou. Such good recipes! I went low fat and got out for a bit more exercise and all that extra weight i have had for, oooh, over ten years, just fell off, more than two stone. Ive had more than a few people say how well I look Yeah, with clothes on, maybe 

Im really pleased it works for triple negs, as I know you guys have a really rough ride initially and then none of the supportive follow-up that the ER+ class get.

But does anyone know if the "diet and exercise" plan also make a difference for recurrence rates in hormone positive breast cancer ?