I found the greatest recipe site. You can search for recipes based on calories and nutrients. It has a slide for calories, carbs, fat, sodium, cholestrol, protein, and fiber. You slide the slide over and set a goal. Like I looked up "Less than 500 calories" with protein and fiber both at 20 grams. Had some great recipes. Go to myrecipes.com Near the top next to the search window you will also see the options to search by ingredients or search by nutrition. You don't have to "name" what you want to cook, you can just pick the parameters.

Interesting, I never noticed that and I use that web site a lot. Guess I wasn't looking for the tools, just the recipes :laugh: :laugh:

Thanks for pointing that out!

Thanks for posting this, very helpful site for meal planning!

Bumping up, good site for newbies and those tired of the same old recipes.

Well what IS this recipe site and where is it?

retirehappy wrote: »

Bumping up, good site for newbies and those tired of the same old recipes.

Thank you for bumping this

Here's a new site that my phone alerted me to: Edamam. You can search by dietary preferences such as balanced. high fiber, and so on. I've seen several good recipes on it, and they all list calorie count per serving. A person can also add her own recipes to the site.

Bump for the newbies

Speaking of recipes, this weekend I made a squash soup that was super easy and super delicious AND pretty low in carbs (about 19 per serving). Counts shown are:
(calories / total fat - sat. fat / sodium / carbs / fiber / sugar / protein) [Glycemic Load]

Mxchana's Butternut Squash Soup

Serves 5 @ 226 g per serving

~ 2½ cups water (0) which will cook away as the soup cooks
600 g butternut squash, cut up (270 / 0 / 24 S / 72 / 12 / 12 / 6) [GL 24]
100 g chopped onion (40 / 0 / 4 S / 9 / 2 / 4 / 1) [GL 3]
1 tbsp. Vogue vegetarian chicken-style base (45 /1.5 – 0 /588 S / 6 / 0 / 0 / 3)[GL3]

Once above is cooked down to the point water is gone, add:

2 cups Almond Breeze unsweetened almond milk* (60 / 5 – 0 / 360 S / 2 / 2 / 0 / 2)[GL 2]
1 tsp. turmeric (7 / 0 / 1 S / 1 / 0 / 0 / 0) [GL 0]
1 tsp. ground allspice (5 / 0 / 1 S / 1 / 0 / 0 / 0) [GL 0]
1 tsp. cinnamon (6.35 / 0 / .35 S / 2 / 1.35 / 0 / 0) [GL .35]
a dash of black pepper (or even better, white pepper, if you have it)

TOTAL RECIPE: (433.35 / 6.5 – 0 / 978.35 S / 93 / 17.35 / 16 / 12) [GL 32.35]
Recipe Weight: 1128 g ... makes 5 servings

PER 226 g SERVING: (87 / 1.3 – 0 / 196 S / 18.6 / 3.5 / 3.2 / 2.4) [GL 6.5]

** Could substitute soy or coconut milk if nut allergies are a problem. Can use either Vanilla or Original Unsweetened Almond Milk; I used original.

NOTE: I always the weigh the total recipe to determine how big a serving will be. Your serving size may vary if your total batch weighs in differently. And of course, if you can have more carbs, you can have a bigger bowl!

I have to copy all these sites, I quickly get board eating the same things over and over!!
I also have found some good stuff on SparkPeople.com Interesting site

Bumping for new ideas

I also love the recipes from EatingWell. I also love CleanEating.com. I check out healthy eating/cooking blogs frequently. I made a HUGE change (former English major so this was huge) when I retired/moved/and developed a serious dust allergy. I gave up books, magazines, and (this was a killer) cookbooks. I donated probably a TON of cooks including an entire bookshelf of cookbooks. And now that I learned to live with it I LOVE the decision! There are sooooo many recipe sites out there! I keep a notebook in the kitchen (ok, just branched to #2) and I print recipes that I have found online and loved when I tried them. No flagging 10 recipes in a cookbook I later have to dust! And I save a ton of money because my husband and I both have Kindles so we share books on the family plan because he has Kindle unlimited and I also belong to a bookclub that allows me to download and share.

DreamOn, When I moved to Australia, years ago, I had over 300 cookbooks. All were sold at the yard sale we had when we sold our townhouse before the move. I have a very small (for me) collection, but I primarily use the online sites, blogs, etc. now. I also use Prime and have many cookbooks on the Kindle because of that. I also have a LARGE three ring binder that gets tried and true recipes added to it.

Speaking of blogs, my favorite foodie blog has to be http://ruhlman.com. He is a great food writer, his cookbooks are simple but classic. He has the most amazing links to other food bloggers too. His book Ratio is like a cooking bible to me. I use recipes to get ideas, I rarely follow them to the letter. Ratio helps me adapt amounts to two people sizes etc.

Thanks for sharing ..... I'm seeing a nutritionist this week and would like to ask her opinion ..... have several health issues & cannot figure out what to eat/not eat anymore

I get Bookbub too. Now I have so many books on my Kindle, I don't know anymore what I have. Sure wish they would come up with a simple way to organize them. But I still love Bookbub!