Family Dinner recipes!

I would plan to have a green salad and an entrée, and see if you can get yourself and everyone on board with serving and eating that salad FIRST, and not along with the meal. This is a great way to fill up on your veggies and therefore be less tempted by 2nds of the more caloric stuff. You can make your own vinaigrette--just Google skinny salad dressings--and there's a great line of low-cal dressings in the produce section called Bolthouse Farms. The blue cheese-yogurt dressing is really good and only 35 cal/2 TB but its rather pricey.

I make a lot of stuff from Skinnytaste.com, and love her stuff. Her Sicilian Rice Ball Casserole is super-hearty (big portions) and satisfies the cheesy-pasta-Italian craving for me. http://www.skinnytaste.com/2008/03/recipe-index.html

http://www.skinnytaste.com/2011/02/sicilian-rice-ball-casserole.html

You can make nice roast beef from lean beef like eye round using this method, which I heartily endorse

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/high-temperature-eye-of-round-roast/

Or pork tenderloin, cooked the same way http://www.food.com/recipe/perfect-pork-tenderloin-63828

Pork tenderloin can be a bit bland, so you should go heavy on seasoning. I season liberally with kosher salt and fresh black pepper, then I cut slits in it and stuff slivers of raw garlic into them. Doing it in that order allows some of the S & P to make its way into the meat. I also do this with pork loins and beef roasts.

I haven't tried this recipe yet, but have read that its tasty and a good substitute for traditional broccoli-cheese-rice casserole:

http://eatingwelllivingthin.wordpress.com/2011/04/14/blast-from-the-past-with-a-new-twist/

If your family likes collard greens, this amazingly tasty low-cal version is worth the trouble of preparing the collards. I also throw in a smoked turkey wing now, thanks to a fellow FitnessPal-er.

:http://www.laaloosh.com/2012/02/06/bacon-collard-greens-recipe/

Good luck! I have lots more if you're interested

yummy thanks for links