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Share your healthy meal ideas for the week!
2 years ago, when I lost a ton of weight, I did a great job of making healthy meals. DH and I were trying to remember yesterday what kinds of dinners I made and we were having a hard time recalling too many. So share your dinners for the week and maybe we can all get some new ideas.
Here's what I have for this week: kale soup, chicken kielbasa with peppers and onions over brown rice, ground turkey tacos, sweet and sour chicken with mixed veggies and pineapple over brown rice with veggie spring rolls
Re: Share your healthy meal ideas for the week!
Well it sounds like you're off to a great start! I make a leek and kale soup! Love that stuff!. I do my menu planning on Monday nights, so I may have to check back in tomorrow and let you know the rest of the week. Last night I made a somewhat healthier version of beef stew. It had tomatoes, tomato paste, kale, potatoes, carrots, green beans, leeks. It was yummy! Tonight we're having white pizza with broccoli and tomorrow is bean burritos.
We make lots of Mexican food. We don't eat a lot of meat in our house (beef a few times a month, fish a few times a week, and chicken never because it grosses me out to cook it). Mexican is cheap and healthy because we use beans and lots of veggies. Just need to go easy on the cheese and sour cream.
Check out Cookinglight.com and Eatingwel.com. That's were I get most of my healthy recipes from.
Let's see, we will be eating the leftover pasta bake that I posted about in the Fit Chicks post until at least Wednesday. Then we will probably have salsa chicken on Thursday and Friday.
I do plan on roasting a turkey this weekend (Cooking Light recipe). We will probably have that with rice and veggies a few nights and then I will make a turkey pot pie and a turkey noodle soup to keep in the freezer. I try to make everything healthier by using skim milk, Smart Balance margarine and whole wheat pasta or brown rice whenever possible. I will also sometimes add extra veggies.
I made this last night and it was so good! I used 1/2 the meat and I would double the snow peas next time (they came out perfectly crispy and so tasty). I made basmati rice from Trader Joes. It tasted like it came from a restaurant. Definitely use light soy sauce since it was still very salty. I want to try it with chicken and other veggies too. The flavor with the ginger (I also used garlic) was so good and the meat was so tender from the marinade. I can't wait to eat the leftovers.
http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/2010/10/beef-with-snow-peas/
Just found this on Woman's Day - a whole menu for the month plus shopping lists. Just for ideas. I'm sure any menu can be tweaked, but they look pretty decent health-wise.
http://www.womansday.com/Articles/Food/Month-of-Menus!.html
Most of my recipes are coming from Hungry Girl since she converts all the Weight Watcher Points for you:
Monday: Baked Ziti
Tuesday: Honey Mustard Chicken Fingers
Wednesday: Beef Stir-fry
Thursday: Something with porkchops
Friday: Calzones
Saturday: Chicken Parm
Sunday: Chunky Chicken Soup
As you could probably guess...I make a lot of healthy and low or fat free meals for my crazy husband.
Some regulars:
Tofu with couscous and roasted root veggies
Baked potatoes with shell beans and broccoli
Burritos
Breakfast for supper (scrambled eggs and fakon or pancakes or waffles)
I made this on NYE and it was amazing: http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/giada-de-laurentiis/winter-minestrone-recipe2/index.html
I make soup a lot. Look on my blog. Just about everything on there for meals are healthy.
Oh. And for toppings for things like burritos or baked potatoes we have fat free sour cream and Seth eats fat free cheese. I can't do the FF cheese.