Favorite Recipes.

xxjacqueline
xxjacqueline Posts: 97 Member
edited September 27 in Food and Nutrition
What are your favorite recipes that are easy, inexpensive and more importantly healthy? I like to have a variety of foods, I can't eat the same things everyday.

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  • deanawhitney
    deanawhitney Posts: 9 Member
    Check out hungrygirl.com. Her recipes are so fantastic and she turns junk food into healthy food. I made some of her holy moly guacamole tonight in honor of Cino de Mayo :) and it was awesome!
  • bigredhearts
    bigredhearts Posts: 428
    The "Cook this, Not that 350 calorie meals" book by author David Zinczenko is AMAZING, i just recently bought the book and have tried 2 recipes so far and they are AMAZING! i look forward to trying more!!! Not to mention the book on amazon is only like 13 bucks!
  • achampionsheart
    achampionsheart Posts: 1,020 Member
    i posted two recipes in my blog monday....one for diet coke chicken, three ingredients, ready within an hour....and then a dessert that is fat free and sugar free....and yummy..hehe...check them out!!
  • Lleldiranne
    Lleldiranne Posts: 5,516 Member
    Ooh, I just did a great one last night! It was fettuccine noodles, Ragu alfredo sauce, and cooked shrimp (not breaded or fried, think coctail shrimp) from the grocery butcher. As long as you stick with the serving sizes (2 oz pasta, 1/4 c sauce, about 6 large shrimp), it was not a whole lot of calories. Then frozen broccoli (the kind you microwave-steam in the bag) to fill up the plate with almost no calories.

    Try a medium (not large) baked (or microwaved) potato with a bit of butter or sour cream (1/2 Tbl of butter, or 1/2 serving sour cream). Add a touch of grated cheese and some broccoli for a bit of flavor if you like. I've even eaten them plain, when they are fresh and have a good flavor. (And if you eat the skins, you're getting more vitamins, too)

    I love a good garden salad, too. Maybe a little bit of sliced deli meat and a bit of cheese, but mostly just veggies and even strawberries or dried cranberries, and a poppy-seed dressing. Again, watch serving size on dressing and meat/cheese, but you can have a BUNCH of salad for very few calories.

    A boiled or fried (in cooking spray, not butter) egg with toast (easy on the butter) or bagel (sans cream cheese) is a great breakfast. Eggs have less than 100 calories each and are packed with protein and nutrients (I'm talking whole egg, not just the whites, too). Or for lunch, an egg salad sandwich, mash up the egg and mix in a bit of mayo, spread on bread. Or fried egg sandwich - fry it, put it on toast with a touch of mayo.

    For an easy meal, we LOVE Banquet frozen meals. The little $1 cheapies. Microwave for a few minutes, and you have meat, veggies, and potatoes all for less than 300 calories (in general).

    Just a few... hope you get tons more ideas!
  • sam456
    sam456 Posts: 52 Member
    I just started a blog recently too! It's so hard to find recipes that are low-fat and taste good :( I finally started putting all of my recipes online to share :)

    http://happyheartrecipes.blogspot.com/
  • sam456
    sam456 Posts: 52 Member
    ps mindeyc -- what's the url for your blog? those sound like some interesting dishes!
  • xxjacqueline
    xxjacqueline Posts: 97 Member
    Check out hungrygirl.com. Her recipes are so fantastic and she turns junk food into healthy food. I made some of her holy moly guacamole tonight in honor of Cino de Mayo :) and it was awesome!

    I absolutely love it! Thank you for the suggestion. I'm going to try some of her stuff today.
  • xxjacqueline
    xxjacqueline Posts: 97 Member
    I just started a blog recently too! It's so hard to find recipes that are low-fat and taste good :( I finally started putting all of my recipes online to share :)

    http://happyheartrecipes.blogspot.com/

    Your recipes looks so good! Especially those cookies.
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