Meal ideas

livinginwoods

Trying to work on my weekly l menu for dinner and am drawing a blank. What are you guys making this week? My husband is a meat and potato type of guy. Neither one of us eat fish or seafood. I need some hearty but healthy ideas. I have chili on now. Thank you in advance!

Edited to add, we are on a budget. About $75 a week for food.

Rockstar_sister

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mconway79

Turkey is great. I have been trying to cook one every 2 or 3 weeks. I then make supper healthy soup that is only 125 Cals for a big bowl full. We buy boneless skinless chicken breasts from GFS and eat chicken 3 to 5 times a week.

Some of my favorites are:
baked with salt, pepper and garlic powder
baked with salsa on top
ranch chicken where you use low cal ranch with a little bit of flour to thicken, topped with low fat cheese and a little parm and bake.
baked with greek spice
bbq but we have a foot of snow on our bbq right now

We also eat pork tenderloin roasts. I just throw in the oven with mushrooms in the pan and bake.

My hubby is also a meat and potato kind of guy but we started 2 days a week having a lean meat and 2 veggies or a veggie and a salad. We have dropped down to potatoes, rice or pasta 1 or 2 days a week and veggies the rest. I found slowly changing things over worked well with hubby.

How ever a great change for a potato is peeled, wedged and tossed with very little oil (may be able to use a spray). Toss on yourr favorite spice combo (we like greek or roasted red pepper both by club house or mccormick) and bake. If you want them a little more brown broil when just about finished.

For your chili did you use meat? If so ground turkey or beef?

jaabee11

bump, will get back to you.

livinginwoods

Thanks everyone! Great ideas. Sometimes I have to make my meals different than my husbands. To be honest he does not eat poultry often and refuses ground turkey or chicken. We mostly eat beef or pork.

When I make chili I use ground beef. I made it vegetarian about a month ago and you would have thought I tried to kill the man. :ohwell: