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I've heard people say that they like the recipes on this site: http://www.skinnytaste.com/

My diary is open. You can probably look around on some people's profiles with open diaries to see what kind of things they eat if you are looking for ideas for meals. I'll make things like egg white omelettes with massive amounts of veggies sauteed in a little water and/or 1 teaspoon or 2 teaspoons of olive oil, 1 or 2 servings goat cheese, etc. I also like to make one serving of pasta with steamed veggies, some form of protein, and 1 or 2 servings of goat cheese instead of a sauce on it. The goat cheese melts and tastes like a rich creamy pasta sauce with lots of flavor. (Can you tell I like goat cheese? Lol). I make a yummy butternut squash "soup" = just oven roasted squash (amount varies, but I roast 3-4 squash at a time) thrown into a blender with 2-2.5 cups of low sodium stock. Blended up, served warm, add 1 serving of a creamy cheese (like goat cheese...!) in or 0.5-1 servings of walnuts if wanted. It's better than any soup I've had at a restaurant, and it's just the calories of the squash and the stock (plus your add-ins). I make pizzas using flatbread tortilla/wraps, loaded with veggies, with one serving of the cheese of my choice. Veggie burgers with steamed veggies and a side of roasted sweet potatoes. I'm a vegetarian so my suggestions will probably not be as varied as some of the other suggestions you'll get.

I don't really follow recipes when I cook, but I do log everything in advance for the entire day, so when it comes to dinnertime, I use my pre-recorded log sort of like a "recipe" when I cook. I use a food scale to weigh all solids and viscous (creamy) foods. I use measuring cups for liquids. So for dinner tonight, since I've already logged it on my diary, I'll start by weighing out my veggies, throwing them into an empty ceramic non-stick skillet (requires no oil or anything for cooking, I like it a lot), then get a pot of water boiling, weigh out my dry pasta, you get the idea. It takes the guesswork out, and leaves me knowing for sure that I've prepared exactly the right amount of food to fit into my calorie / macro goals for the day.

Advice: If you're going to prepare a meal for several of you to share, you could use the recipe creator on your food diary (try to avoid using entries in the database for generic or homemade meals just because the calorie counts look good... you really have no idea how accurate they are). If you were making a dish for dinner, weigh / measure out all of your ingredients, enter everything into the recipe builder, and then you can enter in how many servings that particular recipe yields. So if you enter that it yields 6 servings, you would portion the recipe out into 6 portions, and log 1 serving for yourself. Your other members of your family could have as much or as little of the recipe, but you know that you've been pretty accurate with getting your 1 serving.

Good luck! And if you do look through my diary and see any foods on there that you want to know how I prepared, just send me a msg

Great ideas above... My suggestion would be also to take an afternoon to yourself and head to your local Barnes and Nobles or bookstore you have in town... Grab a cup of coffee and spend a few hours looking through cookbooks... My first suggestion is Muscle Chow... It is a book I have and I have found quite a few of the recipes outstanding... Not saying you need to buy the books, but look them over, see the foods used, the meals made and use that as a base for making meals... Best of luck to you!

Welcome. I am a mom of 4 and cooking gets frustrating for me. There are times when my kids won't eat why my hubby and I eat and that's ok. I don't let it get to me. i do use emeals. it takes some of the work out of it for me. there are so many different plans to choose from on there and it does the shopping list and everything for me. I don't use all the meals but I print everything off and save for later use when i need ideas. I also include my kids when i am making meal ideas and ask them what they would like to see on the menu. They LOVE this part. I have slowly learned how to make things healthier and healthier.

Something my kids LOVE is egg muffins. I make them ahead with any kind of meat, bacon, turkey bacon, turkey sausage whatever and then i stuff them full of veggies. My kids say the veggies taste just like eggs. And the nice part is they keep in the fridge for 1 week and warm in the microwave for 30 sec.

My kids also love pork loins. I also will bake chicken and make different fixings on the side so they pick what they like. We eat a lot of chicken lol. But not all of my kids like the veggies so they like to feel they have a say on what goes on their plate so I try not to mix everything together. Like if I am making fajitas or something.

My Kids love tacos and those are super easy. I have started mixing ground beef and ground turkey and they don't even notice. (I do this with anything that needs beef) With our tacos I use a lot of beans. Garbanzo, black beans, kidney.

Shoot me a message if I can help you further. Just don't get frustrated. Take it one step at a time and good luck.

I have been using Pinterest as a recipe source lately. I have made a lot of recipes off of there, and they have pretty much all been good!

I like eating a "stir fry" That is chicken, carrots, and broccoli in olive oil, poultry seasoning, salt and pepper. alone or with rice. tastes good, my hubby likes it, and it is healthier than what he usually eats.