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ground chicken/turkey sheppards pie with a spinach salad on the side. Use mashed sweetpotatos for extra yumm~doesn't get much easier or tastier.

1lb ground meat
1pkg sheppards pie seasoning (or flavour your own way) 1 cup water
1.5 cups mixed veggies (use just peas or corn if thats all you like)
top with garlic mashed potato or sweet potatoes (boiled and mashed with a bit of low fat milk)
brown meat add other stuff ~ simmer until water is gone
top with potato layer and bake at 350 for 30 min (until just starts to brown a bit)

lol my dinner tonight !!

Check out this website: http://www.eatingwell.com/

And the Real Simple Magazine website. There are some great meal plans that are low cal.

Also, the Cooking Light magazine always has good recipes.

Welcome back! I love Schnauzers too

Another vote here for Real Simple, but my favorite easy yummy reasonable-calorie recipes are from Publix Apron. http://www.publix.com/aprons/ I cook something from this site at least twice a week. Some of them only have a couple of ingredients and we haven't had a miss with them yet.

My favorite lunch:

Chicken Wrap

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Sprouted wheat tortilla
1/3 c. chicken, shredded
Romaine lettuce mix
1 T. mayo
4 slices Roma tomato
Salt & pepper

The way I make it is only 300 calories. I pair it with a piece of fruit and stay full for about 5-6 hours.

Every Sunday night, I roast a few bone-in chicken breasts, then shred them for my chicken wraps for the week. Roasting keeps the chicken moist and flavorful. Yum!

Made these tonight and my 3 year old loved them! We called them crabby patties

Ingredients:
1 pound lean ground turkey
1 pkg. Hidden Valley Ranch Salad Dressing and Seasoning Mix
2-4 drops Tabasco sauce
1 egg, large (lightly beaten)
5 lite hamburger buns

Directions:
In blender or small food processor, make breadcrumbs from on hamburger bun (or enough to make 1/4 cup crumbs). In small bowl, lightly mix egg, Hidden Valley Mix and Tabasco together. In a large bowl, add ground turkey, egg mixture and bread crumbs. Mix until just combined. Don't Over Mix! Lightly mold into 4 equal size patties. Pan fry. Serve on light hamburger buns with lettuce,and tomato.

I was amazed that he ate it. But he loved them. I served with a broccoli and apple salad. That he did not like at all! LOL there are lots of great websites out there for healthy meals. The meal I just gave you was 291.4 calories 10.5 fat 25.3 carbs 28.3 protein and 5.8 fiber

Once a month I make up a batch of these muffins, freeze them and have one for breakfast every weekday. They come from the second CSIRO Total Wellbeing Diet book, which has heaps of easy and healthy recipes:



1/2 cup canola oil
1/2 cup honey
1 cup grated carrot
2 bananas, mashed
2 apples, unpeeled and grated
3 eggs, lightly beaten
2 cups low fat milk
1 1/2 cups unprocessed wheatbran
1 1/2 cups oat bran
2 cups plain wholemeal flour
1 tablespoon baking powder
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 cup pecans or walnuts, finely chopped
1/2 cup raisins

Preheat oven to 375 and lightly grease 2 12 cup muffin pans (I don't use paper muffin cup things, but you can if you want)

In a large bowl mix oil, honey, carrot, bananas, apples, eggs and milk. Stir through the 2 types of bran and let sit for 10 mins. You'll notice that the bran soaks up all the liquids.

In a separate bowl, combine flour, baking powder and cinnamon. Fold dry ingredients along with pecans and raisins through bran mixture until just mixed.

Fill muffin cups about 2/3 full and bake 20 mins or until firm to the touch.


The book says the mix makes 24, but I find it makes an average of 27 - 30. When they're cool I pack them into large ziplock bags and put them into the freezer. 1 min in the microwave heats them perfectly from frozen. They're not huge but have a good mix of complex carbs and protein etc and are really easy in the mornings when pressed for time.