Need dinner & snack ideas

Jenna__XoXo

I cook dinner everynight but I've gotten tired of all the things I usually cook. I need some new ideas for dinners and snacks to make.

cnjg6677

Try skinnytaste online I love all of the recipes on there

busyPK

This is hard to answer without you providing what you currently are getting tired of. But I'll throw out some ideas:

Breakfast for dinner
Pot roast in crockpot with seasoning, carrots, potatoes, onion, anything you like
Build your own pizzas (big hit if you have kids)
Baked ziti/spaghetti
Taco bar
Breakfast casserole - huge hit in my house as I can cut up most veggies and hide them in there and my kids never notice. Favorite recipe involves eggs, milk, tater tots, spinach, green and red peppers and any cheese I have on hand. My kids enjoy this with hot sauce or salsa.

LyndaBSS

What's your overall diet consist of?

Safari_Gal_

Hmm don’t know your dietary needs- but here are some staples in my house if you are just looking for ideas based off what other typically eat:

Roast duck
Ratatouille- easier to make than most people think!
Shashuka
Roasted vegetables of all kinds
Chili
Lamb chops
Seafood stew/ bouillabaisse
Kale and sausage soup

Snacks-
Chia pudding
Flax snax
Nori strips
Pumpkin seeds

lapesadilla

I'm a lazy cook but these are some favorites for me:

Lettuce cups - cook some ground turkey with 5 spice and soy sauce, add a little hoisin/sesame oil/sambal/sriracha or whatever, place into individual whole leaves of butter lettuce or romaine. Add veggies or shelled edamame if you like.

Sprinkle a side of salmon with kosher salt, a little tarragon and a lot of dill and slow roast at 250 for about 45 minutes or until it flakes with a fork. Serve with sauteed zucchini and a whole baked sweet potato.

Brown whole chicken breasts in a skillet, then add about 1/2 cup broth or water, the juice of 1-2 lemons, and chili powder. Cover and simmer over low heat for about 15 minutes or until chicken reaches 160 degrees at the thickest part and the liquid is mostly reduced. Add a bit more chili powder to taste and spoon the resulting spicy lemon sauce over the chicken to serve. Good with corn cut off the cob and oven-roasted green beans.

Rub an eye of round roast with salt, cracked pepper, horseradish and olive oil, sear on all sides in a skillet (or don't) and slow roast at 225 for about 70 minutes to 2 hours or until it's as done as you like (I like it rare so I check it often starting at about 1 hour). Serve with some little potatoes with salt and pepper and olive oil and a little salad.

Chicken adobo, made is a great simple meal-to-feed-an-army that's pretty low calorie and high protein and but my husband makes it so I can't instruct you there.

kshama2001

I subscribe to emails from allrecipes.com and America's Test Kitchen and get more recipe ideas than I can possibly use. (The recipes from ATK are available for a limited time and then they go behind a paywall.)

I also have a subscription to the New York Times that gives me access to their cooking section. My favorites there are Nigella Larson, Mark Bittman, and Melissa Clark. I don't subscribe to the cooking section emails because I already have more recipe ideas than I can use.

Lots of times when something looks good, I see if I can find it in my trusty "Joy of Cooking", and use that one instead, as I prefer the way the recipes are organized there.

Another great source of recipes are the cookbooks in your library system - mine has over 7,000 available. I like to borrow cookbooks before I buy them.

Butt_Snorkeler

If I'm lazy to cook, I'll just throw together some ingredients for a huge calorie bomb smoothie. Tons of smoothie recipes out there and its very easy to adjust measurements to fit calorie goals.