Go to dinner choices?

I have a recipe for Ratatouille with ground beef that I make fairly often. It's an enormous portion, gigantic really. I eat it all by myself since by fiance doesn't like that it's primarily veggies, and it only has 580 calories, or less if you want to use pureed fresh plum roma tomatoes instead of the canned tuttoroso I use. First, I take 3 cloves of garlic and 1/2 cup chopped yellow onion and start to saute them in a little bit of cooking spray until they just start to cook. Then, I add 6 oz of 96% lean ground beef and cook until its about halfway pink. Then I add two cups of eggplant, cubed fairly small, and let that cook for about five minutes. Then I add a whole red bell pepper, a whole green bell pepper, one large zucchini, one large summer squash, and one jalepeno with the seeds removed (all diced) and let it cook for another five minutes. Then I add about 100 grams of mushrooms, let them start to cook for a minute or two. Finally, I add 1.5 cups of Tuttoroso crushed tomatoes with basil (but if you'd prefer to keep it cleaner, you can just puree 1.5 cups worth of plum roma tomatoes and add those instead. I do from time to time. Probably saves on the calories) and the spices. For spices, I add about a tsp of dried thyme, a half thsp of dried basil, a light sprinkle of dried parsley and salt/pepper to taste. Let it simmer for another few minutes. This is an enormous meal, your stomach WILL feel stretched afterwards. No need to have pasta with it, it's plenty of food on it's own. And it's only 580 calories. Probably enough for two people to really, then you divide the calories in half.

With winter coming, we' 'll be having lots of veggie stir fries over brown rice. I use garlic, onions, peppers, mushrooms, carrots, celery, green beans, zucchini, cabbage, broccoli, basil, curry, - whatever I have handy. I cook the veggies in a Wok sprayed with Pam then add lite soy sauce and a touch of water to steam saute it or you can use olive oil. To really get crazy, add some crumbled bacon! We eat tons of this and it makes great leftovers. I also add pork, rice or beef cut up and sauted with the veggies. Versatile!

I love breakfast for dinner. I usually scramble some eggs add a little cheese and serve on a corn tortilla with salsa.

If I want an insane quantity of food for few calories, I do an eggbeater frittata for dinner. 10-12 tbsp eggbeaters, 2-3 oz shredded chicken, onions, asparagus, broccoli, cauliflower, carrots - whatever kind of vegetables you like. Then I add 28g of feta or 1 package of laughing cow swiss. It is a mound of food lol. My last one was 260 calories, and that had chicken, swiss, onions, and asparagus

Skirt steak fajitas are sooooo good. I chop up the steak into little 1/2 inch cubes and julienne lots of different colored peppers to give us the veggies and some onions mixed with a packet of the taco or fajita seasoning (you can go lighter than a full packet if you're watching your sodium). I personally like either packet, but you may have a preference. With or without the wrap (to save some calories) it is so good with some salsa added and greek yogurt for the "sour cream". Yummy!

I've been forgetting the freshly chopped tomatoes and lettuce nowadays, but it adds in some more veggies. If you are especially in the mood to be indulgent, you can do some sprinkles of cheese on there too. All good!

All these sound so good .I've been concern that winter is coming and I will want more food So .these meals have encouraged me.

Chicken Burrito bowls with brown rice, peppers, onions, corn and beans! Chicken enchilada casserole with quinoa, grilled chicken/steak with grilled corn on the cob and veggie stir fry, cauliflower crusted pizza, oven fried chicken with corn flakes breading, zucchini lasagna, veggie soup, pumpkin soup and baked chicken, and my least favorite but still a fast/easy option, cilantro lime fish and cilantro rice.

Yesterday I tried slicing zucchini, adding a little bit of tomato sauce, cheese and oregano and bake it to make pizza bites. It was yummy and everybody loved it. Specially the kids! Great for a side dish or a snack.