Recipes website with included nutritional data??

CoffeeNCardio

Hey, I'm horribly non creative. Trying to get hold of some recipes that don't take an hour to prepare and are low cal while still being macro-rich. It's all good if you have a specific recipe you've found you love, but anyone know of an app or site with specifically healthy recipes? I have found a few but they don't have nutritional info and a pm led me to believe sites exist where the nutrition info for the completed product is actually right there next to the recipe. Anyone found something like this? I'm mostly looking for work nights because I'm short on time and patience and sticking foods into the recipe-maker one by one is really just stressful and exhausting. I'll do it gladly to keep my weight loss going, but if there's an easier way ya know?

usmcmp

http://www.skinnytaste.com/

Francl27

Skinnytaste is good, but with every single recipe you should really enter it in the recipe maker, I've seen really big discrepancies, plus a lot of recipes come with serving sizes in 'cups' (which is the main issue with Skinnytaste), which isn't accurate at all either.

CoffeeNCardio

usmcmp wrote: »

http://www.skinnytaste.com/

Okay, that is absolutely beautiful thank you so much

CoffeeNCardio

Francl27 wrote: »

Skinnytaste is good, but with every single recipe you should really enter it in the recipe maker, I've seen really big discrepancies, plus a lot of recipes come with serving sizes in 'cups' (which is the main issue with Skinnytaste), which isn't accurate at all either.

I'll keep that in mind. Maybe I could make a few of the recipes on a Saturday when I can make up for overage with extra exercise (cause I'll have free time), or just to have time to do the measurements and save them. I'm both coming from a place of limited time to make measurements by weighing if I'm cooking for the fam, and of just not having the slightest idea where to begin. Like I've sat here for 45 minutes trying to make JUST dinners meal plan for the week and I can't think of anything for tuesday or wednesday yet. I haven't been cooking long enough to have stocked up on some favorites that don't suck calorie/nutrient wise so I'm starting from scratch in the "I'll just grab something from my thick collection of recipes I have ever tried before" category.

CoffeeNCardio

i swear if you tried to make me name 5 dinner meals off the top of my head that I've made before that didn't come from a box requiring nothing more than a cup of milk and an egg I'd fail. I need resources. My entire eating career (since birth) has been "box" and "piece of meat accompanied by two canned veggies".

Queenmunchy

You'll get there! Skinnytaste is awesome, but I also love these below:
theskinnyfork.com
slenderkitchen.com
cookinglight.com
eatingwell.com

acheben

clgaram720 wrote: »

i swear if you tried to make me name 5 dinner meals off the top of my head that I've made before that didn't come from a box requiring nothing more than a cup of milk and an egg I'd fail. I need resources. My entire eating career (since birth) has been "box" and "piece of meat accompanied by two canned veggies".

Here are some of the websites that I get my delicious dinner ideas from:
- http://www.annies-eats.com/
- http://www.budgetbytes.com/
- http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/
- http://smittenkitchen.com/
- http://www.skinnytaste.com/
- http://iowagirleats.com/

These are all great resources ranging from really simple cooking to moderately complicated. Most of these don't include nutrition information, but I tend to import recipes into the recipe builder to see what they'll end up close to.

Honestly, there isn't anything wrong with a lot of "protein and two sides" meals. That's usually what we have for dinner most nights during the week.

Francl27

clgaram720 wrote: »

i swear if you tried to make me name 5 dinner meals off the top of my head that I've made before that didn't come from a box requiring nothing more than a cup of milk and an egg I'd fail. I need resources. My entire eating career (since birth) has been "box" and "piece of meat accompanied by two canned veggies".

I still do one protein and two sides most days. Usually it's two veggies, sometimes veggies plus potatoes/rice/pasta etc. It's easy and way less of a headache to log. I only make recipes when I really crave something specific.

Rebaisa

http://www.healthyfood.co.nz/health-information/low-kilojoule is my go-to for inspiration & has nutritional information available. I agree that it pays to work it out for yourself though, as products vary.

CoffeeNCardio

Oh don't get me wrong, I have nothing against a protein and two side veggies, I should probably clarify: Dad's "i dunno how to cook" go to meal was like, a frozen piece of chicken (or what was once chicken anyway) filled with cheese and covered in breading, like that came premade and you just throw in the oven, canned yellow wax beans and canned corn. Or canned carrot slices and creamed corn. Or canned "New Potatoes" whatever those even are, and buttered canned green beans. I mean, until I grew up I didn't even know veggies are supposed to 'crunch' or that "noodles with sauce" was not a typical main course. If you're talking a nice tenderloin and steamed fresh broccoli and brussels sprouts(I LOVE THEM) I'm all there, there's so nothing wrong with that. And nothing wrong with any individual food I mentioned really, it was in their extreme overabundance in my childhood diet that the problem was, not in the content itself. I was just trying to enumerate why precisely I have a limited knowledge of what food is even out there or how to make it into a meal. Sorry, I hope I didn't make somebody feel like I was hating on your weeknight dinners, I promise that is not at all what I meant.

RodaRose

These recipes have the calorie counts:
http://blog.myfitnesspal.com/14-filling-dinners-400-calories-or-less/

CoffeeNCardio

RodaRose wrote: »

These recipes have the calorie counts:
http://blog.myfitnesspal.com/14-filling-dinners-400-calories-or-less/

Thank you!

eugenia94102

BBC Good Food
bbcgoodfood.com/recipes
I also like the New Zealand Healthy Food link posted above.

edited to correct the link

Erfw7471

Fabulous - happy to see this thread! I was just thinking about hunting through sites since it's the season I start cooking more & I want some new recipes.

Francl27

RodaRose wrote: »

These recipes have the calorie counts:
http://blog.myfitnesspal.com/14-filling-dinners-400-calories-or-less/

Ok just a heads up though - pretty much everything can be 400 calories or less if you have a tiny serving size. Watch out for those... sometimes I shake my head at the recipes that are posted by MFP on facebook.

cwolfman13

http://www.eatingwell.com/

http://www.cookinglight.com/

Emily3907

All the ones listed above are ones I frequent as well. I will add:

www.emilybites.com
www.skinnyms.com
www.myrecipes.com (cooking light dumps all their recipes here along with a handful of other magazines.)

Although, for me, these websites are a good place to start for a base recipe. A lot of times I upload the recipe into the MFP recipe builder and swap things out based on my tastes/goals (a big one for me is swapping low fat cheese for full fat).