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Anonymous
Don't neglect seafood. It's all healthy for if you don't bread and deep fry it.
Buy any kind of fresh or frozen fish fillets you want. I prefer tilapia because it has a mild flavor and is very firm...it holds up to grilling extremely well. Flounder, salmon, haddock, Alaskan pollock, Chilean sea bass, mahi-mahi tuna, are all good choices as well. They're really not expensive and they're no less healthy for you than shitty canned tuna (seriously, if you eat this garbage you have no culinary knowledge and very poor tastes). Good fish just needs a slight rub of olive oil and a bit of salt prior to cooking (salt helps absorb moisture...you want fish to be very dry before cooking or else it can end up mushy and bland). Season with whatever you feel like after cooking. Marinade possibilities are endless, just avoid marinades with too much oil or you'll end up adding more fat than you probably wanted. a favorite white fish marinade of mine is mustard, honey, teriyaki sauce, onions and garlic.
And don't forget about shrimp and crab. Frozen, tail-on shrimp isn't that expensive and it's delicious. Premium crab meat CAN be a little pricey, but I say go for imitation crab (which is really Japanese surimi, a minced mixture of white fish, scallops, clams, crab, lobster, bound together with a little rice wine and flour). The imitation crab I buy costs about four dollars per pound and has 80 calories per serving with zero fat, lots of protein, and minimal carbs due to the flour they use for firming and binding. It's great out of the bag or in most any recipe.
You're also getting omega-3s out the ass with seafood. Don't limit yourself to dry ass grilled chicken breasts every day...that's a fucking culinary crime if I ever saw one.
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