HEALTHY dinners, 5 or less ingredients?

Cooking Light 5 ingredients or less! LOVE it and "Fix-it and Forget-it 5 ingredient favorites" (slow cooker) LOVE it!! Perfect for pregnancy and saved me during the first 6 months!

Veggie Faijtas

1 Pepper
8-10 button mushrooms
1 onion
1 tbsp olive oil
1 tbsp chili powder
Whole wheat tortillas
Serves about 4

Saute the onions in the olive oil and then add the mushrooms untill they are soft.
Then add the chili powder (and I add chili flakes for heat) and then the peppers.
Cook until the peppers are soft but crisp.

Warm up the tortillas in the microwave for 30 seconds.

I serve this with canned corn, guacamole, cheddar cheese and fresh tomatoes
You can also add chicken, steak, or canned beans

My favorite dinner/lunch is five ingredients or less:

One chicken breast
1 oz. goat cheese
A handful of grape tomatoes - sliced up
Either polenta or couscous

Cook the chicken breast and serve atop the goat cheese & tomatoes - tastes crazy decadent, but the goat cheese is only 70 calories.

Cook the polenta or couscous in broth and serve on the side. To make it healthier you can add a side of fruit. Another bonus to this meal is it takes less than 15 minutes to make!

Salads, Soup, Panini (or grilled cheese and any meat you'd like to add), crockpot meal (your meat and any number of veggies), and don't forget, cook something on weekends and freeze it for easy microwaving. There are also smart ones meals for when you have no time.

Brush the bottom of a pyrex or baking pan with olive oil. Place a bunch of chicken breast tenders in a single layer in the pan. Add salt, pepper, or desired seasonings and finish off with the juice of one lemon. Bake at 350 for 20-30 minutes and serve with a side salad and steamed veggies (and rice or pasta if so desired). This is our go-to meal for busy weeknights. We may sub in turkey, grilled turkey burgers, lean beef cuts, lean pork chops, etc.

Cook a small pork roast in your crock pot with a cup or so of water or chicken broth (high for at least 4 hours, low for around 8 hours). Add some bbq sauce and serve on a sandwich thin with a lowfat coleslaw, or leave it plain and make a yummy salad, or spice it up with salsa, lime, etc. for tacos or a taco salad.

Lentil Soup can be easy and generally uses some onion, carrot, and maybe tomato. There are some good recipes on allrecipes.com

Stuff a pita with deli roast beef, red onion, tomato some tzatsiki (greek yogurt, grated cucumber and garlic), top with low-fat feta for a lightened up version of gyros.

Saute sliced turkey sausage (italian style is good) in some olive oil, add onions and peppers and a little chicken broth and serve over pasta or rice, if desired. Great with a dash of red pepper flakes if you like it spicy.

Thanks all for the great ideas. BUMP!

Get a rice cooker, it will save you so much time! 20 minutes or so to prepare the rice and all you do is pour the rice in and cover with water, turn the cooker on. I like to brown some ground turkey then mix it with ketchup, oregano, thyme, cumin, pepper, onion & garlic powders, then eat it with a veggie & rice. Sloppy joes but healthier! It's what I'm having for dinner.

Another quick & healthy dinner is turkey-green bean stir fry.

93% Lean Ground Turkey
Fresh Green Beans - trimmed & washed & diced
Braggs or Soy Sauce
Other spices - garlic, pepper, red pepper flakes if desired

Brown the ground turkey with the spices. Mix in the braggs or soy sauce to taste. Stir in green beans and cover to steam for about 5 minutes or until tender crisp. Serve with steamed rice.

Breakfast Tacos -- scrambled eggs, turkey bacon or sausage, cheese, soft taco shells, salsa

chicken breast, feta, fresh baby spinach, minced garlic.

slice chicken breasts open like a book (don't cut all the way through)
chop spinach and mix it in a bowl with feta and minced garlic
stuff chicken breast with mix
tie up with cooking string
bake until done!

if you are feeling adventurous, you can glaze the outside of the breasts with olive oil, paprika and cayenne pepper (to taste) prior to baking.

chicken breast plain - in teflon pan (10 min) or any kind of fish oven baked (20 min) or steak (broiled in oven 15 min)
corn on the cob or small potatoes or whole grain rice (boiled plain 20 min)
Salad: Romaine lettuce, tomatoes, mushrooms add dressing

It seems I have a variation of this every day for lunch and dinner...

Or a sandwich:
Landsberg Muesli bread (high in fiber and filling), brie cheese and walnuts - yummie and healthy but high in calories!!
Landsberg Muesli bread, smoked salmon, tomato – more healthy
I get the bread from Wholefoods its fom Germany, like me, and I miss the bread!!

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Check out some of Harley Pasternak's books--the Five Factor stuff. His recipes are really simple but have 5 ingredients and are easy to fix.

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Thanks for sharing some great sites.