easy to make dinners!

hi Melissa! I have a 3 yr old and a 12 week old! Well anyway, how about stuffed zucchini? cut some zucchini in half. scoop a little out of both and fill with some ground beef or shredded chicken. top with tomoato sauce and cheese and throw it in the oven for about 30-40 min. Delicious!

My food can be found here. I think nothing takes more than ten, fifteen minutes to make (and if it does, it's listed). I like good food but not being locked up in the kitchen. There are a good few dinners there as well.

skinnytaste.com has pretty easy recipes for the most part. good number of crock pot recipes as well. My go to easy things are marinated meats that I either grill or slice up and then stir fry.

We bought an Actifry last year and it's a godsend! You can get the recipes online and they are all great and very low in fat.

http://www.sixsistersstuff.com/2012/03/slow-cooker-bolognese-recipe.html

This is my favorite spaghetti sauce. I use lean ground turkey instead of sausage, and I serve over cooked spaghetti squash.

My favourite super quick dinner is:

- 150g chickpea fusilli (or use pasta but I'm cutting down on gluten, and chickpea one is lower calorie)
- 100g white crab meat
- 1/2 tbsp. extra virgin olive oil
- chopped red chilli
- crushed garlic clove
- juice of 1/2 lemon
- some chopped flat leaf parsley

Add garlic and chilli to oil in pan and heat gently for a couple of mins, then add the crab, lemon and parsley and heat through.
In the meantime cook the pasta (4 mins).
Mix together and serve. Total 394 calories if using chickpea pasta (I use Dell'Ugo) - will be more if you use actual pasta, so I would use much less than 150g (say 75g?? been a while since I had pasta so I'm not sure). I top with a little shaved parmesan

I also love to make chilli from scratch and it lasts a couple of days in the fridge and only needs reheating through in a pan / microwave. Takes about half hour to make a batch - perfect with baked sweet potato and a spoonful of low fat natural yogurt.

Thai curries also really easy - just get curry paste, coconut milk, chopped veggies (I also like to add pineapple), and meat/fish (if I'm in a hurry I sometimes get chicken breasts that have already been cooked and then chop them up and throw them in. Or tiger prawns are yummy too). Serve with rice / noodles.

Hopefully that helps

earlnabby wrote: »

melissabowers515 wrote: »

Hi im new here and looking for some quick easy to make dinners? Ive got a 3 year old and 16 week old baby any by time dinner comes for me I just cant b bothered slaving over a cooker!

I am a huge fan of my slow cooker. Dump the ingredients in, set it, and 6-8 hours later you have a tasty meal. You can even put the meat in still frozen if you forget (like I tend to do). It just adds about an hour to the cooking time.

Melissa, start now having your kids eat what you eat. This will only help you as they get older. I have grandkids now and they eat what the adults eat. But I will say I have made pizza roll ups using crescent rolls, pepperoni and 1/2 a string cheese roll it up and bake it. My grandson loves it. So easy!!!!!

melissabowers515 wrote: »

Hi im new here and looking for some quick easy to make dinners? Ive got a 3 year old and 16 week old baby any by time dinner comes for me I just cant b bothered slaving over a cooker!

Melissa start by letting ur kids eat what u eat. It will help them as they get older. They won't grow up and have to have this app too.. They will be skinny!!

Don't put frozen meat in the slow cooker. It can spend too much time in the danger zone as it cooks and you can end up with something you really don't want mixed in with your food.