Anyone cook and eat actual meals most/all days?

I rarely eat fast food and I meal prep and eat about 6 times a day. I also eat a lot of the same things, but you are more than welcome to take a look!

I prepare most of my meals. I eat dinner out twice a week and sometimes lunch once. I believe my diary is open.

However, preparation and cooking can vary a lot. My meals are all very simple, usually pretty plain and I don't eat a lot of variety. "From scratch" for me is sausage and eggs for breakfast. A salad that is chopped lettuce, cut up turkey, cheese and dressing for lunch, and some form of grilled meat and nuked veggies for dinner, and a few simple snacks in between. I like to keep it simple and easy and I am not very creative.

My diary is open and yes I cook meals

i cook all the time. and i just started meal prepping two days a week (sunday and wednesday) - i make breakfast and lunch meals for myself and my husband for 3 days at a time. I cook dinner every night too. my diary is open- although i did just start logging again this week. my system really works for us and we eat pretty clean now.

Bump for ideas

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What do we like to eat? We like spicy foods (as in hot!) and highly seasoned things. Mostly I like variety. I would love more recipes with ground turkey. I mostly use it in things like chili or tacos, but I would love to know how to cook it by itself so that it would be moist and flavorful. Love mushrooms, spinach, and zucchini. We don't eat a lot of beef, but I do try to cook it from time to time for DH. My preference is chicken. I like salmon and tilapia and would love to have halibut, too, but I just can't bring myself to pay the high cost. We have pork from time to time. We have everything from fish fillets, brown rice, and veggies to beef stroganoff, chicken pot pie, enchiladas, or beef burgundy. Of course, wtih some of the heavier entrees, I just have to eat smaller portoins. However, I can actually eat a regular serving of the beef stroganoff and beef burgundy because they have some low-fat substitutes included in the recipe. (I got the recipes for both of those from Diabetic Living.)

Edited to add: I love, love soup! DH doesn't think of soup as a "real" meal, so I have to have a lot of add-ons for him, but if it is well seasoned, soup is my comfort food.

If you like spicy, I make a mean stuffed pepper. I use ground beef, but you can use ground or shredded chicken. You just take 4 chilis (I use Serano or Pueblo, sometimes bell peppers if I can't find good looking chilis), cut in half and clean, boil about 5 min.

Brown 1lb of hamburger, add one packet of taco seasoning, 1 can of black beans (drained & rinsed), 1 cups cooked brown rice. Fill each 1/2 of the chilis with hamburger rice mixture. Top with cheese, bake at 350° until heated through and cheese is bubbly.

Is that a typo? How do you stuff a tiny serano pepper?

Sorry I meant Poblano... - oh and I forgot you need to add a little water with the taco seasoning. Whatever is called for on the package.

Hi I dont use any convenience food I cook all our meals,I find a great place for ideas is allrecipes.co.uk!

Mine's open. It's a little repetitive with weekday breakfasts and lunches and some of the dinner choices definitely wouldn't fit with some people's goals but there's actual cooking every day. Take from it what fits with what you need.

One more reply came in while I was posting---thanks.

What do we like to eat? We like spicy foods (as in hot!) and highly seasoned things. Mostly I like variety. I would love more recipes with ground turkey. I mostly use it in things like chili or tacos, but I would love to know how to cook it by itself so that it would be moist and flavorful. Love mushrooms, spinach, and zucchini. We don't eat a lot of beef, but I do try to cook it from time to time for DH. My preference is chicken. I like salmon and tilapia and would love to have halibut, too, but I just can't bring myself to pay the high cost. We have pork from time to time. We have everything from fish fillets, brown rice, and veggies to beef stroganoff, chicken pot pie, enchiladas, or beef burgundy. Of course, wtih some of the heavier entrees, I just have to eat smaller portoins. However, I can actually eat a regular serving of the beef stroganoff and beef burgundy because they have some low-fat substitutes included in the recipe. (I got the recipes for both of those from Diabetic Living.)

Edited to add: I love, love soup! DH doesn't think of soup as a "real" meal, so I have to have a lot of add-ons for him, but if it is well seasoned, soup is my comfort food.

You remind me so much of myself! My husband had gastric bypass and one of the things that the dietician told us about seasonings is, regardless of how much intake you have, it is better to replace a whole serving of bad food with seasonings on your regular serving. I hope that this makes sense! I buy McCormick Marinades in the pouch, they run about $1. Typically these require the pack of seasoning, oil, vinegar and water, give or take those ingredients. After using these you will be able to create your own marinades and seasonings, by omitting or adding things that your family enjoys more. I ALWAYS use olive oil, for everything. We eat mostly poultry, pork and fish, no red meat, because after doing away with for so long, it upsets our stomachs now. We grill everything that is able to be grilled, after marinating for hours, and this really helps with keeping the flavor.

When I am cooking something that requires ground beef, I always sub ground turkey. I use ground turkey for burgers too, which can be trial and error to suit your families tastes. I add salt and pepper into the ground turkey, sometimes diced onions, patty them up and grill them. I add 2% cheese to the burger for a cheeseburger taste. I dress our burgers with veggies, lettuce, tomatoes, jalapenos, onions, etc. As a good side dish, I cut potatoes and bake fries, coating them with a tiny bit of live oil and garlic salt.

I cook and eat real meals pretty much every day, both lunch and dinner. I make my lunches and my husband's on weekends, usually soups or vege based curried for me, lasagne, pies or enchiladas for him. Night times I come home and cook. My diary isn't open to anyone but friends, but feel free to add me. I do use the recipe builder a lot though, so my diary tends to have one entry which encompasses an entire meal including sides.