Healthy, low calorie dinner tonight

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As I try to jump start this month's healthy eating, I'm trying to get as much vegetable as I can. I'm trying to limit the amount of carbs that I eat, so sometimes I can make a healthy substitute like I did tonight. I had cooked cauliflower from the other night, which I cubed up and used them as a potato substitute underneath some lamb and gravy. Of course, it is not potato, but it was tasty enough and I didn't miss eating potato tonight. When I cooked up the lamb shanks, and made the gravy, I did not use a roux made with butter and flour. The cooked carrots and onions that were in the broth in which I cooked the lamb, I used my immersion blender to thicken those vegetables, and I made a slurry of about 2 teaspoons of cornstarch and 2 teaspoons water. That considerably cuts down on the calories from a traditional roux-based gravy. For a side dish, I cooked a medium sized crookneck squash and gray squash. I also toasted a slice of sourdough bread, and smeared it with one teaspoon of butter. It was also delicious to sop up the gravy on the plate. I ate quite a lot tonight, but eating this way cuts my calories way down to a place where I need to be conscious to get enough nutrition. The way I can do that is by adding a third meal, instead of these two meals, like I had today. I've only consumed (not even) 800 calories today, so I need to make sure that I eat something else in a little bit. Keeping calories this low is not good for us, because it doesn't give us all the nutrition that we need. I will probably make a half sandwich later with some sliced luncheon meat and cheese. What kinds of things do you substitute for other Foods, when you are watching your calorie content? Photo is my own