Found the Perfect Recipe Site
grandmothercharlie
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I found the greatest recipe site. You can search for recipes based on calories and nutrients. It has a slide for calories, carbs, fat, sodium, cholestrol, protein, and fiber. You slide the slide over and set a goal. Like I looked up "Less than 500 calories" with protein and fiber both at 20 grams. Had some great recipes. Go to myrecipes.com Near the top next to the search window you will also see the options to search by ingredients or search by nutrition. You don't have to "name" what you want to cook, you can just pick the parameters.
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I found the greatest recipe site. You can search for recipes based on calories and nutrients. It has a slide for calories, carbs, fat, sodium, cholestrol, protein, and fiber. You slide the slide over and set a goal. Like I looked up "Less than 500 calories" with protein and fiber both at 20 grams. Had some great recipes. Go to myrecipes.com Near the top next to the search window you will also see the options to search by ingredients or search by nutrition. You don't have to "name" what you want to cook, you can just pick the parameters.
Interesting, I never noticed that and I use that web site a lot. Guess I wasn't looking for the tools, just the recipes :laugh: :laugh:
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Thank You Charlie that is a great idea!!! I will have to try that tomorrow. 0 -
Thanks for posting this, very helpful site for meal planning!0
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I found the recipe site. Pretty cool. Thanks for sharing.0
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Bumping up, good site for newbies and those tired of the same old recipes.0
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That sounds useful. Thanks for sharing.
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Well what IS this recipe site and where is it?0
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myrecipes.com0
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Thank you for bumping thisretirehappy wrote: »Bumping up, good site for newbies and those tired of the same old recipes.
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I checked it out and joined. I think it will be a good place to find recipes according to my nutritional needs. Thanks for the info Charlie.0
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Here's a new site that my phone alerted me to: Edamam. You can search by dietary preferences such as balanced. high fiber, and so on. I've seen several good recipes on it, and they all list calorie count per serving. A person can also add her own recipes to the site.0
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Thanks Charlie. I had to admit, my greatest weakness when it comes to developing a good program is that I HATE logging. I just plain get bored with it quickly and fall off that wagon. I used to have the same problem with weight watchers, I hated going to meetings! Well at present I am in the process of taking all of our favorite meals (dh and mine I meal) and figuring out how to lighten them. I reworked two of our favorites last week and we loved them! This site could prove very helpful.0
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Bump for the newbies
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Bumping again for the newbies.
Oh I'll add another helpful website:
http://www.eatingwell.com/
Lots of healthy ones there. I was looking for high fiber dishes and boy, did they have them. The search feature is very good.0 -
Speaking of recipes, this weekend I made a squash soup that was super easy and super delicious AND pretty low in carbs (about 19 per serving). Counts shown are:
(calories / total fat - sat. fat / sodium / carbs / fiber / sugar / protein) [Glycemic Load]
Mxchana's Butternut Squash Soup
Serves 5 @ 226 g per serving
~ 2½ cups water (0) which will cook away as the soup cooks
600 g butternut squash, cut up (270 / 0 / 24 S / 72 / 12 / 12 / 6) [GL 24]
100 g chopped onion (40 / 0 / 4 S / 9 / 2 / 4 / 1) [GL 3]
1 tbsp. Vogue vegetarian chicken-style base (45 /1.5 – 0 /588 S / 6 / 0 / 0 / 3)[GL3]
Once above is cooked down to the point water is gone, add:
2 cups Almond Breeze unsweetened almond milk* (60 / 5 – 0 / 360 S / 2 / 2 / 0 / 2)[GL 2]
1 tsp. turmeric (7 / 0 / 1 S / 1 / 0 / 0 / 0) [GL 0]
1 tsp. ground allspice (5 / 0 / 1 S / 1 / 0 / 0 / 0) [GL 0]
1 tsp. cinnamon (6.35 / 0 / .35 S / 2 / 1.35 / 0 / 0) [GL .35]
a dash of black pepper (or even better, white pepper, if you have it)
TOTAL RECIPE: (433.35 / 6.5 – 0 / 978.35 S / 93 / 17.35 / 16 / 12) [GL 32.35]
Recipe Weight: 1128 g ... makes 5 servings
PER 226 g SERVING: (87 / 1.3 – 0 / 196 S / 18.6 / 3.5 / 3.2 / 2.4) [GL 6.5]
** Could substitute soy or coconut milk if nut allergies are a problem. Can use either Vanilla or Original Unsweetened Almond Milk; I used original.
NOTE: I always the weigh the total recipe to determine how big a serving will be. Your serving size may vary if your total batch weighs in differently. And of course, if you can have more carbs, you can have a bigger bowl!
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I have to copy all these sites, I quickly get board eating the same things over and over!!
I also have found some good stuff on SparkPeople.com Interesting site 0 -
Thank you, ladies. New sites, and a great Soup recipe.0
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Bumping for new ideas 0
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Love soups! The hot liquids are really filling and at this time of year the squash soups are wonderful. I make a butternutsquash/granny smith apple/curry soup that is amazing0
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@DreamOn145: Love butternut squash soup. Even Campbells Organic in a box is pretty good! But, yours sounds so much better!0
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Very cool, thanks for the tip!0
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I also love the recipes from EatingWell. I also love CleanEating.com. I check out healthy eating/cooking blogs frequently. I made a HUGE change (former English major so this was huge) when I retired/moved/and developed a serious dust allergy. I gave up books, magazines, and (this was a killer) cookbooks. I donated probably a TON of cooks including an entire bookshelf of cookbooks. And now that I learned to live with it I LOVE the decision! There are sooooo many recipe sites out there! I keep a notebook in the kitchen (ok, just branched to #2) and I print recipes that I have found online and loved when I tried them. No flagging 10 recipes in a cookbook I later have to dust! And I save a ton of money because my husband and I both have Kindles so we share books on the family plan because he has Kindle unlimited and I also belong to a bookclub that allows me to download and share.0
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Oh btw, I am glad you started this thread. People in this group come with the most amazing information! I am sure this thread will be no exception0
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DreamOn, When I moved to Australia, years ago, I had over 300 cookbooks. All were sold at the yard sale we had when we sold our townhouse before the move. I have a very small (for me) collection, but I primarily use the online sites, blogs, etc. now. I also use Prime and have many cookbooks on the Kindle because of that. I also have a LARGE three ring binder that gets tried and true recipes added to it.
Speaking of blogs, my favorite foodie blog has to be http://ruhlman.com. He is a great food writer, his cookbooks are simple but classic. He has the most amazing links to other food bloggers too. His book Ratio is like a cooking bible to me. I use recipes to get ideas, I rarely follow them to the letter. Ratio helps me adapt amounts to two people sizes etc.0 -
I LOVE Michael Ruhlman!! I have Ruhlman's Twenty on my Kindle. He really gets down to the basics so you know the functions and behaviors of ingredients and how to cook them. The first thing he says to do when you're in the kitchen is to THINK! Pretty basic, but so many times I don't bother with that and just throw things together. I will now have to get Ratio!0
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Thanks for sharing ..... I'm seeing a nutritionist this week and would like to ask her opinion ..... have several health issues & cannot figure out what to eat/not eat anymore
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Not sure if I mentioned it but I am loving Bookbub. You put in your preferences and every day it suggests amazon finds for free-$2.99. I have gotten several cooking, history, and health books since I started it for very little!0
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I get Bookbub too. Now I have so many books on my Kindle, I don't know anymore what I have. Sure wish they would come up with a simple way to organize them. But I still love Bookbub!0
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@janmoulder2 You can create "Collections" on your Kindle. They stay on the Cloud. You could organize the cookbooks that way.0
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