What's your favorite, easy meal?

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Blender baked potato soup. Microwave a potato, put it in a blender with chives, milk, sour cream, bacon bits, and cheddar cheese to your liking. voila...

Chicken, rice, and beans

100 calorie pockets. 3/4 cup of egg whites (or liquid eggs) or eggs! and a wedge of laughing cow schmeared on the bread! Add veggies if desired to the eggs(peppers, mushrooms, broccoli, onions)

It's not really child friendly, but when I can't be bothered with anything elaborate, I go for a bowl of brown rice topped with diced tomato, black beans, red onion and avocado. It's kind of a deconstructed burrito. It doesn't sound like much, but the flavors combine wonderfully.

I use chickpea flour to make a kind of seasoned, savory pancake and add a vegetable dish to that based on what's in the freezer or the produce drawer and needs to be used up.

A lot of roasted vegetables take not very much work, and you can do other stuff while you wait for them in the oven.

Another big one for me is quesadillas with soup or salad. It's pretty easy to throw together a simple tomato soup starting with a can of no-salt-added diced tomatoes and/or sauce.

Fresh fruit and yogurt is super easy and you could even have everyone assemble their own yogurt parfait.

Fried rice is pretty quick and easy. There are some good recipes for basic "restaurant-style" fried rice on allrecipes.com.

stir fry! any kind and every kind of veggie. throw in whatever meat or seafood or poultry you like. a little olive oil and fat free italian dressing and lemon juice. bam.

I love sandwiches. Hard boiled egg sandwiches are my favorite right now and only 180 calories. I make half a dozen hard boiled eggs at a time. I also pick up 3 or 4 of the premade salads at walmart in the fresh produce section. Lunch in less then a minute.

During the winter I make 4 big pots of soup every other Sunday. Chicken noodle, black bean, turkey chili, red beans and rice, lentils, Italian red sauce and meatballs, etc. If I'm feeling frisky I'll toss a roast (or a chicken or a turkey breast) in the oven as well. I get two weeks of meals done in one day. Soups are generally better after they sit for a day or two anyway. Whatever we'll eat that week goes in the fridge, the rest goes in the freezer.
In the summer we tend to get a whole bunch of stuff prepped on the weekend so during the week we can just throw a meal together. Ground beef and lamb are browned for tacos and gyros, bread is sliced for tomato basil mozzarella sandwiches, lettuce chopped, washed and dry. Everything that can be prepped gets done. We make a menu of what we're eating for the week so we know what to get when we go shopping and we know what we can do with it to be sure it's ready to go with minimum effort during the week.

peppers, onions, and garlic sauteed in olive oil. Throw in some protein (tonight I used shrimp). Serve with rice, or noodles, or just by itself if you are watching carbs or are short on calories. YUMMMM!

Black beans, ground turkey, and a little salsa served on tortilla's. Everyone in the house loves it, and you can add fresh tomatoes, lettuce and whatever else you like. It's very filling too.

different variations of oatmeal- pumpkin, apple cinnamon, coconut, chocolate chip, peanut butter, peaches n cream, berry.

and creamy chocolate quinoa flakes with fruit for dipping

and massive salads just 4 or 5 different veggies chopped up and 3 different leafy greens mixed with 2-4 tbsp avocado and dressing.

or for a spread- low sodium canned garbanzo chickpeas mashed with avocado and whatever veggies you prefer. Can be used in pitas, sandwich bread, tortillas, nori wraps. goes good with sprouts and cucumber too.

also and type of beans with quinoa and veggies.

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