Not enough recipes

Oleyo1

I’ve been eating tha same thing over and over again I’m tired like there’s literally no variation in tired of the same things being me different recipes not all the time the same

biancakary

Try asking AI. I used chatGPT for some healthy, low-cal, in-season recipes and it gave me a few that were actually delicious and low cal. I modified for flavor as I like to use a myriad of spices, but they all came out pretty good

springlering62

https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10951461/not-enough-recipes

welcome to the boards !

I’m kind of wierd. I have three breakfasts that I rotate. I’ll eat one five days a week, and the others on Wednesday and Sunday (a “treat” breakfast).

Ditto with lunches. Unless I have leftovers, I usually rotate between a wrap with dry-sautéed buffalo chicken, a salad, or, lately, some easy baked falafel. I adoooore falafel and find out you can add water, wait twenty minutes, throw it in the oven and have falafel (😱😱😱😱) was a revelation.

Dinners, though, that’s where I’ll be experimental. I try not to have the same dinner more than once a month, although a Thursday pizza slice is written in stone.

What helped me was making two lists. I have a list of about 30 “regular” dinners stored on my phone. I have a shorter list of things I’d like to try.

It makes life so easy to scroll through both lists and copy and paste my choices to a weekly meal plan, which in turn helps me easily create a grocery list, which in turn helps me stick to that list and not bring home junk food.

In my obese days, I’d go to the store with nothing but a debit card, walking the aisles and plan on the fly, come home and realize I’d made more impulse junk food buys than real food, and then realize I’d forgotten something and have to go back anyway. Hey! Repeat cycle!!!! Honestly, sometimes I’d “forget” on purpose so I could go back and buy even more junk food.

It’s not boring at all! They’re foods I know we like, they’re stored in MFP for easy retrieval and logging, and it’s easy to plan which days I’ll need a little more time to get that new food (tomorrow night will be a Moroccan meatball and egg tagine!) versus which night I’ll be getting home from yoga late and need something I can get on the table in 15 minutes.

If something is awesome (last nights chicken tagine, the dish with sauteed grapes last week - omg who knew sauteed grapes were so freaking delicious!!!!) it gets moved to the “permanent” list of meals.

I’ve discovered Lebanese and Moroccan foods, and invested in some great cookbooks. Healthy, Mediterranean diet’ish, new-to-me spices, exotic, and so delicious. Find you a cuisine that appeals to you and start dabbling in it!

This is my meal plan for the next two weeks:

This is a partial list of easy regular meals: