Healthy Recipe Searching

MommyOfAnAngel17
MommyOfAnAngel17 Posts: 18 Member
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What is everyone's go to when looking for new, healthy recipes? We are constantly eating the same meals all the time and would love to find some new and healthy meals to feed my family :)

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  • Katmary71
    Katmary71 Posts: 7,018 Member
    Skinnytaste.com and Instantloss.com have good recipes. Another blogger I like is Kalyn's Kitchen. If you like vegetarian Moosewood cookbooks are good.
  • puffbrat
    puffbrat Posts: 2,806 Member
    We have a subscription to Cook's Illustrated magazine. When I'm looking for a new recipe to try (healthy or otherwise), I start sifting through all the magazines. If I don't find something I want there, I pull all of my cookbooks off the shelf and start sifting through those.
  • amy19355
    amy19355 Posts: 805 Member
    My sister gave me some recipe tips a few years ago that answered the question for me; maybe it will work for you.

    This is quite simplistic, but, as a basis for creation, it offers untold variations. I've come up with some tam dasty meals this way.

    The way it works it to put food into one of a few categories:
    filler, flavor, binder.
    Fillers are the bulk, the substance - protein, carb, fat
    Flavors are what makes the taste buds happy - salt, sugar, herbs, spices
    Binders hold it all together - eggs, sticky substances (let the imagination run).

    You have to be brave and have an open mind to new taste combinations. The best part of this method is that all the ingredients are already in your kitchen.

    today I had brown rice&black beans(filler), mixed with sweet potato (binder) and soy sauce (flavor).

    have fun!
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    Pinterest
  • aokoye
    aokoye Posts: 3,495 Member
    I don't really go anywhere special to look for "healthy", by which I'm assuming you mean low calorie, recipes. What I do do is alter some recipes to make the calorie count lower. Things like using less oil, a different cut of meat (though that's pretty rare and has to do with non-health related dietary preferences), etc. Essentially I quickly learned what makes a recipe more or less calorie dense, which wasn't especially difficult. I suppose it also helps that I don't eat most cheeses and consume very little dairy more broadly.

    The online places I get recipes from include the recipe section of the NYTime's website (without a subscription I think you can view five recipes a month), Viet World Kitchen, The Guardian, various indian food blogs/websites, Serious Eats, and The Woks of Life. None of those sites specialize in "healthy" foods.
  • AuddAlise
    AuddAlise Posts: 723 Member
    If you're looking for healthy Forks over Knives is a good place to start. Forewarned, it is no/avoid meat, dairy, oil, and salt. Its a bunch of veggies, fruits, legumes, and whole food pastas. I have yet to make a recipe out of their cookbook that I don't like.
  • aokoye
    aokoye Posts: 3,495 Member
    Cerdwin wrote: »
    If you're looking for healthy Forks over Knives is a good place to start. Forewarned, it is no/avoid meat, dairy, oil, and salt. Its a bunch of veggies, fruits, legumes, and whole food pastas. I have yet to make a recipe out of their cookbook that I don't like.

    No salt?
  • janejellyroll
    janejellyroll Posts: 25,763 Member
    aokoye wrote: »
    Cerdwin wrote: »
    If you're looking for healthy Forks over Knives is a good place to start. Forewarned, it is no/avoid meat, dairy, oil, and salt. Its a bunch of veggies, fruits, legumes, and whole food pastas. I have yet to make a recipe out of their cookbook that I don't like.

    No salt?

    I'm not sure where that "no salt" bit comes from because even a quick review of their recipes show that they call for both salt and condiments that contain salt (hot sauce, mustard, etc).
  • aokoye
    aokoye Posts: 3,495 Member
    janejellyroll wrote: »
    aokoye wrote: »
    Cerdwin wrote: »
    If you're looking for healthy Forks over Knives is a good place to start. Forewarned, it is no/avoid meat, dairy, oil, and salt. Its a bunch of veggies, fruits, legumes, and whole food pastas. I have yet to make a recipe out of their cookbook that I don't like.

    No salt?

    I'm not sure where that "no salt" bit comes from because even a quick review of their recipes show that they call for both salt and condiments that contain salt (hot sauce, mustard, etc).

    Yeah I just checked and almost all of the recipes that I looked at have at salt in them. Some of the recipes definitely sound good though.

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